Hannah Jane Long, a yellow Labrador retriever who lived at Nashamois Farm in Edgartown, died unexpectedly Jan. 9.

Hannah was a well-known canine presence in and around Edgartown and at the Vineyard Gazette, where her owner Annie Long worked as bookkeeper for many years.

She was a certified therapy dog who also loved to bird hunt with her owner Ray Long. “When the gun came out the rest of the world disappeared,” her owner wrote in an e-mail to the Gazette this week.

She was born on March 30, 1997; her AKC registered name was Longdown Nashamois Hannah. She was gentle, obedient and easy to train. She loved going out to the barn with her owners every morning, where she would cruise the stalls picking out grain the horses had dropped, or just sit in the doorway of the barn sniffing the air and surveying her world.

On Thursday afternoons at the Gazette office when deadline loomed, she would wander the newsroom, offering a moment of Labrador calm to harried reporters and editors.

“She was force of good, loving others and being loved in return, one that will never come this way again,” her owner said.

Hannah will be buried at Nashamois Farm.