Putting rumor to rest was right call

At face value, it didn't merit a story.

As he has been since late winter, Auburn's city manager was working this past week, and he told local reporters he intended to stay in his job for the foreseeable future. He's not planning to leave. Nothing was changing.

But the reason we chose to report on Mark Palesh's unaltered employment status was to clarify a rapid circulation of rumors, both in city hall and in the community, that he was resigning. We actually received an anonymous call Thursday morning that he was turning in his resignation as the caller was speaking to us.