Missett joins Courier staff as columnist, reporter

Kate Missett is the Left Hand Valley Courier's newest staffer. Missett, who moved to Niwot in April after nearly 60 years in Wyoming, has remarked that while some people were born with a silver spoon in their mouths, she was born with printer's ink in her veins. She was two when she first started a newspaper press.

Missett comes from a newspaper family. Her father, William J. Missett, was publisher of the Casper, Wyoming Star-Tribune, and that is where she began learning the trade. Her four brothers were also in the news business; one was a newspaper editor, one was the youngest newspaper publisher in the US at age 26, one was a production foreman, and her youngest brother, lovingly known as the black sheep of the family, was a CBS-TV reporter. Her son is also a published author.

She has been a newspaper reporter and columnist, as well as associate editor of Wyoming Wildlife, the magazine of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, and editor of a University of Wyoming's Wyoming Issues magazine.

She has also edited numerous newsletters, including a brief stint for the Pentagon, worked in advertising design, and written and recorded numerous radio spots for a public library in Wyoming.

Missett will be a regular columnist and occasional reporter for the Courier, said Bruce Warren, Managing Editor of the publication.

"We are excited to have Kate Missett join our staff at the Courier," Warren said. "Although she is new to Niwot, she brings a wealth of journalism experience. Readers will enjoy Kate's columns, her insight, and her ability to capture the essence of the community in new and interesting ways."

Missett is also a "Squirrel Whisperer" who hand-feeds some of Niwot's squirrels. She and her husband, Terry Granger, love living in Niwot.