Bye bye, Jarah

Jarah Euston, Fresno's blogging queen and founder of www.fresnofamous.com, is moving on. In August, she's starting the MBA program at the Wharton School. She promises she will stay in touch via the Web site, which she sold this year to McClatchy. I'm happy that she's got this great opportunity to study at Wharton, but selfishly, we'll miss her in Fresno.

All we can say is, bring some of those bright ideas back when you finish, Jarah.

She promises she will stay in touch via the Web site. Here is her farewell note;

You can take the girl out of Fresno... And you know the rest. Before you learn about it on the street, I'd like to tell the Famous community that I'll be leaving Fresno this summer to continue my education.

In August I'll be starting the MBA program at The Wharton School [1] at the University of Pennsylvania. As the name might imply, this school is not in the Central Valley.

The decision to leave Fresno was not an easy one. Fresno will always be home. If you'll forgive my sappiness, my heart will always be on Olive, in vacant downtown buildings, at Kern Street Coffee, Javawava, and Yoshi Now!; there might even be a ventricle lingering at Fig Garden Village and Roeding Park.

While I may have an exit strategy, I'll never abandon Sour Grapes or this community. As long as there is Internet I'll be on Famous. Please say hello and goodbye in the coming months as we run into each other at shows, ArtHops, and dark downtown alleys.