Isms: Views on life in rural America

Have I got a story for you. Since I believe in transparency, I want you to take a look of the photo of Ryan Rifer sliding into home plate on Page 3. Go on, I’ll wait.

It’s a good photo, and it would be even better if I could remove Coach Kevin from the first-base line, so the slide and defender’s stretch were in full view.

I decided I would try a photo-editing tool to remove the coach and make note of it as an editor’s note in the cutline.

I open the editing program, use the lasso tool around coach, and click. Ryan’s full slide is visible. Great!

But ... the Atkinson player attempting to tag R...