Post Register announces departures of Corey Taule, Rob Thornberry

The Idaho Falls Post Register, which recently was sold to Minnesota-based Adams Publishing Group, has announced two major staff departures: Managing Editor Rob Thornberry left Oct. 31, and Editorial Page Editor Corey Taule will leave the paper Nov. 8.

Thornberry has been with the newspaper for 25 years, the last seven as managing editor. Publisher Roger Plothow called him “the heart and soul” of the paper. The paper announced yesterday that he had “parted ways with the Post Register.”

Taule, who worked for the paper for 20 years and took over as editorial page editor in 2009, has accepted a position with Battelle Energy Alliance, the primary contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory. “It just felt like time,” Taule said. “At some point, you’ve said what you had to say.”

Taule will be replaced by Katie Stokes, who has worked in journalism and marketing for many years, most recently writing a regular column for NNY Living Magazine in Watertown, N.Y. Stokes said she will place more focus on local, submitted opinion pieces. “What I’m hoping to do is bring more of a community voice to the opinions page,” she said.