Thanks for your work, and for making our lives a bit more understandable. Happy New Year and happy retirement!

I worked in journalism over a career of several decades, including with Embarcadero Media, and I don't recall a harder or more thorough worker in the field than Sue Dremann. She wouldn't go the extra mile on a story, she'd go the extra 10. Sue, your departure is a major loss for the community, but I wish you every happiness in retirement and hope we continue to hear from you in one way or another.

"You got hooked, didn't you?" Love the "Deep Rat" vignette. I once walked into a furries convention at a Reno hotel. Thought I had seen everything, until seeing that. It's the perfect cover. Look forward to reading the book you will write about all of this someday.

Thank you for your years and years of providing unbiassed insight and information to our community through
honest journalism! And great cheer !

Thank you, Sue, for your service to the community!

Also, thank you, Sue, for your strong reporting and coverage of such an array of local topics and issues.

Happy for you Sue and wish you the very best going forward in this new chapter of your impactful life. You are the consumate professional. We in Palo Alto will miss your work. You are thoughtful and compassionate. I enjoy your humor as exemplified in your piece. Keep well.

Best of luck in your retirement!

Thank you, Sue, for your many wonderful stories over the years. Your love of our community is evident in your writing. Your patient, careful, balanced reporting demonstrated a sense of responsibility to the community. Your probing fact-based questions, offered without the scolding, off-putting tones we see in so much reporting today, often caused community members to reconsider our own opinions. Your writing helped us grow and change. Your writing often brought us closer together. Thank you.

I'll miss you and your writing, as I have missed Don and Jay. I'm very grateful for your contributions to our community.

An exemplary final article from Sue that underscores her talent and generosity of spirit. Our community will miss her thoughtful engagement with local issues and hope we will benefit from her involvement in other forums. May you find happiness and meaning in the retirement you create.

I cannot say enough about how great and valuable your reporting has been for the citizens of Palo Alto and the South Bay. To me, Sue was always the gold standard, I knew that what she reported was unbiased and accurate. Thank you so much and I will miss your contributions to making Palo Alto such as great and informed place to live.

And to fellow Palo Altans, please support the continued quality operation of Palo Alto Online, both in obtaining paid subscriptions, buying advertising and donating to their supporting non-profit entity. It is too valuable a community service to loose.

Sue, you will be so missed. We could always depend on your caring for the community and your thoughtful writing.
Many good wishes for a well deserved retirement.

Dear Sue, despite pressures from biased sources, you steered fast to the facts. Thank you for staying the course and reporting the real and whole story! In addition you are such a wonderful writer! You will be missed!

Sue, it's not just been an honor to share a newsroom with you but also a lot of fun. Your commitment and curiosity combined with your deep knowledge of the community make you irreplaceable. Enjoy every minute of your retirement! -AG

Thank you Sue! I also appreciate your coverage of PAUSD issues for many years. Palo Alto has benefited from your talent and tenacity. You will be missed. Enjoy your retirement.

I will really miss Sue's articles. I will always remember her courtesy and compassion when she spent days interviewing us about our son Whitney Dafoe's terrible disease ME/CFS, its effect on our family, and my husband Ron Davis's research on it. She was so thorough, covered the science, the disease facts, and the humanity of our tragic situation so perfectly. We've had lots of coverage, including nationally, since then, and her article remains the best of all. Even better than the one in People Magazine, LOL. What a really great reporter. Respect. It felt, at the end, like we'd gained a friend.

Every time I saw your byline, I knew we were in the hands of a pro. Thank you for your years of conscientious labor on our behalf, and enjoy your well-deserved retirement!

Thank you, Sue. I will now add your name to my writers’ hall of fame-role models, from the old Times Tribune staff to the PA Weekly. Your byline assured and satisfied readers with a depth of reporting and personal style that marks a pro, and I cheered as you moved up into the ranks of the regulars. As a sometime Weekly contributor starting in the early ‘80s, I well understand the dedication required to kept the paper vibrant and relevant through so many changes. Your special stamp and reportage will be missed. My sincere appreciation for your years of service to the Palo Alto community. Time for your book!?

Great news for you, Sue! You and your reporting will be sorely missed. All the best to you.

Thank you for all your service to the community

Happy Retirement, Sue. Enjoy every minute of it. As so many other readers are saying, you sure will be missed! We began reading Sue's column very close to when she began writing for the then Palo Alto Weekly. Her articles have always been so well written, so community based. I think all of us readers liked you and felt like we knew you. No higher compliment than that. No rough edges, just really rich and complete writing. You worked with some great folks and learned from some of the best, developed your own personal style. THANK YOU for each and every piece you gave us, Sue!

Thank you, Sue. Your dedication to getting the facts right is awe inspiring. I appreciated hearing the back story on your incredible talent for writing a good, factually accurate story, and how mentorship was such an important part of you becoming that great reporter. Your shoes will be hard to fill.

I remember once you did a story on our neighborhood having organized an earthquake home foundation upgrade together so we could get discounts and avoid procrastinating on important safety work on our homes. I instigated it but am not a public person and didn’t want to be the story. You respected that and still found a way to report on it 100% accurately and in an interesting way that informed.

Having done so much work on the Tesla crash, you might be interested to hear another behind-the-scenes story someday after you are retired. Some of us parents were organizing a music fundraiser for our elementary school—incidentally the warm up act was now-Grammy-winning musician Molly Tuttle and her father—and were in that exponential last-week ticket sale curve when the power went out and not only did ticket sales suddenly stop right before the event, they didn’t recover amid a generally unsettled atmosphere unconducive to pushing event sales—for an event that might be cancelled if power were not restored. Other technical aspects of the production were compromised and there was concern we’d have to cancel.

Fortunately we had done a lot of hard work to get advance sales, so we still made money for the school, but half in the end came from Lucie Stern Theater forgiving the theatre charge for the schools under the circumstances. We would undoubtedly have done even better if not for the ill-timed outage and associated tragedy. At the time, it seemed churlish to even talk about it, but it created a huge amount of stress among organizing volunteers, and for me personally because I had committed to underwriting any losses if we hadn’t made money.

Congrats and good luck!

Thanks and congratulations Sue! Your reporting legacy is a treasure for our fair City that will live in posterity and serve as inspiration to aspiring journalists yet to be celebrated.
From here forward!

Sue, loved your reporting and writing. Thank you so much for your dedication to community journalism. We will miss seeing your byline. Best wishes for your retirement.

In 22 years with Palo Alto Weekly/Online Sue Dremann not only informed the community she helped build community.

Consoled that maturation to meet the “hard news" standard of the profession may take a decade, the essence of what set her apart was apparent in her earliest articles.

People with a mission:
Authors, artists, and artisans; activists, historians, and gardeners; creatives, helpers, healers, and more.

East Palo Alto young adults who led the successful effort to shut down a hazardous waste recycling firm on Bay Road.
“Youth group files complaint on Romic.” 6/9/05

The developmentally disabled striving for independence.
“Out on their Own," her first award winner. 12/21/05

Those there-but-for-the grace-of-God: the homeless, ill, victims, survivors, and overlooked.
PA US citizen school children in danger of separation from their families.
"Deportations ignite storm of faith-based protest." 4/3/07

And then the more mundane, but often intense and ongoing Palo Alto community dramas.
From the Cal Ave novella, a flashpoint.
"California Avenue trees get the axe." 9/15/09

And many, many others. Our collective experience was Sue Dremann's palette, and these human-based themes run throughout her legacy of thousands of articles.

And she did crack the barrier into so-called hard news, big time.
Fires, floods, and other disasters. Violent and white color crimes and their criminal trials. Unexpected tragedies.

All with the visceral impact to place a story “above the fold,” the newspaper lingo in her farewell article a week ago Friday. There she writes of trying to steel herself against possible outrage as she calls or knocks on a family’s door in their darkest hour and her surprise that the anger never came.

But that was no coincidence because this reporter's life and work was totally shaped by the human condition and within her own natural self, people were comfortable.

Thank you for your efforts on our behalf, Sue Dremann. Your writings will be missed.

Sue - you are a true gem in our community, a star reporter and writer and fabulous colleague during my time at Embarcadero Media. It was a joy to witness your career there from the beginning, to work alongside you and to benefit from your work and reporting in the community every step of the way. What a huge loss for the Weekly and for the community - and what a well-deserved new chapter for you! Big thanks and cheers to you!