Sorry to hear you're leaving, Terry. Good luck in San Francisco and congratulations on the move.

Good luck, Terry. Good job with the Ferndale Patch. You should be proud of it.

Sorry to hear it, Terry, but I hope you enjoy San Fran!

Sorry to hear you are leaving us, good luck in your new city!

Good luck in San Francisco!! Your Ferndale Patch coverage will definitely be missed!

This is a really sad day but I'm really happy to hear about your move! How many people work at the SF patch??

What a wonderful opportunity for you. Northern California is so beautiful!!!! You will be missed!

Happy for you, sad for the community. Good luck and thanks for all you've done.

Boooo! How will Torino keep its doors open? Only kidding. Best of luck to you!

You've done an excellent job covering Ferndale. Ferndale Patch is probably my #1 local news along with Ferndale 115... Kudos. And good luck in San Fran!

It has been a pleasure working for you, Terry. Thanks for everything and enjoy northern California! I hear the squirrels over there drink lattes.

!Dude! YOU ARE PATCH! Best of everything in your new home! You'll always be part of Ferndale

You've done an incredible job, very sorry to see you go. Good luck in Northern California!

Curious what town in the East Bay? We transplanted here from Berkeley last year...

Well this just plain ole sucks. Terry; you've been nothing short of fantastic. I'll always treasure the time we spent together here. It stinks that I never got an opportunity to buy you a beer or five.

Good luck in other pastures and don't forget to check in once in a while.

You are leaving Ferndale, where the wild things are? Don't go! we'll eat you up we miss you so! Just kidding. Get in your boat and set sail!!

Booo! Ferndale (and Michigan) will miss you! You put forth so much effort to make Ferndale Patch a wonderful local news source. There is a lot going on in and around this town that I would not be aware of without the Patch. On top of the news coverage, you did a good job to encourage sensible debates about local issues and support local businesses.

Power outages, city council meetings, school board meetings, power outages, new business openings, city events, local sports, squirrel antics, and more power outages. I don't know how you did it all. Perhaps the 8+ cups of Torino coffee you drank each day helped.

Best of luck to you in your new opportunity. Thank you for your service.

Congratulations Terry! We will miss you here in Ferndale. Come back to visit us when you're in the Metro area again. I'm happy that you have a new opportunity, and you certainly deserve it. (edited to fix autocorrect mistake)

Congratulations Terry! I really enjoyed keeping up with the community via your reporting. It has been a pleasure to work with you as well. Keep in touch.

I always knew your talent would open many doors, and I am happy for you that you found one worth walking through. Thank your for the connections you started.

You're 50% of the point of Patch/Ferndale. We'll have to see whether the new teacher is even partly as interesting a writer and good a journalist as you. I ain't gonna hold my breath. But I can't imagine a cooler spot on the planet to snag a job (except maybe Venice...or ok, Paris...or London, London's cool...but I digress.)

Will seriously miss you Parris.

Thank you Terry for your community reporting...I have enjoyed your reports and you were the go to guide for me to go when anything happened involving Ferndale. I will miss you and I would like to thank you for allowing me to blog for the Ferndale Patch...I hope the new editor will continue to let me blog! Thanks for everything Terry - I will miss you...I will always remember the day we met...At the Ferndale council meeting when DTE was there regarding the power outages! Good luck on your future endeavors!

Say it ain't so! Terry, you have made a huge contribution to our town (your town, too, and I officially proclaim you a permanent honorary citizen of Ferndale!) and you will be missed. Thanks for everything (especially your coverage in the blackout), and all the best to you.

You will be missed! Hope you find the west coast to be nice. I wasn't a huge fan myself, but I also didn't have a job there...

You'll be missed by your fellow Patch editors too! You always found a way to make me laugh at every meeting. I am so happy for you and I am looking forward to reading all about Danville.

All the best to you, Terry! Thanks for an excellent job. Enjoy the San Fran area. It's beautiful! We'll miss you.

Really nice job, Terry. I have enjoyed the conversations we have had here and in person. We (as Ferndale Patchians) can only hope the new editor is as active as you have been. Good luck and enjoy the terrible weather :)

Will it do any good for us to beg you to stay?! You'll be missed so much Terry. I've seen firsthand how hard you work and I can't imagine Ferndale being lucky enough to ever find another "you". I wish you the best of luck out west but please don't forget us here in Ferndale because I know we won't forget you!

Geez, Terry, I'm real sorry to see you go. You have a certain tact and wit that is pretty rare. Thanks for being so awesome and so fun to gossip and brainstorm with, in person and electronically. I'd write you a letter in 2012 but, you know how that may go. HAR HAR! Good luck!

Thanks for taking local ideas, squabbles and rants and making a pot of comfort stew out of it. See you Jan 5th, and I'll bring a longer version to stand on top of a table and proclaim to the whole restaurant.

If you want a job in Paris or London, such as Guy suggested, it sounds as if you have PLENTY of references! Great job Terry. You will truly be missed.

Noooooooooooooooooo! Don't go!

"See you Jan 5th, and I'll bring a longer version to stand on top of a table and proclaim to the whole restaurant."

Perhaps we can get our City leadership to proclaim Jan. 5 "Terry Parris, Jr. Day" in Ferndale?

Seriously. Has there been another person, recently, who has done more for this City in such a short period of time? Do I hear a "second"??

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Just for you Terry!