The story broke in the Marrow Bay Herald on the third Thursday after I filed with the attorney general's office, which is just about how long these things take when a small-town paper has to confirm a story that implicates the largest family in the county.
I was not the source. Danielle Okafor's office was. The complaint had become a formal inquiry, and the formal inquiry had become a letter to the foundation's board, and somebody on the board leaked it, and by Thursday morning the headline was: "STATE PROBES GRANT FOUNDATION OVER MISSING CHARITABLE FUNDS."
I walked to the Anchor Line at noon and Ruth Calderwood had saved me a stool and bought me a glass of wine. The whole bar was talking about it, in the way small towns talk about things they have known for years and finally have permis
