All right Mr Allen it is time to step up and be a man since you could not be one in the past. You say that you did not know that Sherry was still at the meeting that you decided to fire her at and that is why you had to take the chicken way and say that she was not there. If she was there then you should have told her to stick around that you the board were going into exec-session and are going to decide her future with the magazine. I believe from your actions so far that you were too chicken to do this or was this just a spur of the moment thing of firing her since you did not tell her to stay around. You had to know going into that session that you were going to do this and chose to hide behind a letter. I know that you had to do this by legal right of her contract and could have still done this after having told her face to face. 
  I agree that you should maybe not post the stuff on the site about sherry but you guys apperently have put a gag order on her because are you afraid of what she will say? I say, stand up and be a man and let her post the reasons why she was fired if she so chooses and take the ball out of your court. Are you afraid that the truth will hurt you or her? If you are in the right and she is in the wrong she will not post any thing and here silence will vidicate you, but by putting a gag order on her you are only making you and the board look wrong and save this club by lifting the order. You just continue to show incompetence by doing these things. If there were serious fudiciary problems that could result in someone getting fired and you still give them a contract then you firethat person two months into the contract that is incompetence.