Company Town editor John Lippman is the latest to leave the Los Angeles Times Calendar section. He’s off to New Hampshire, where he’ll be the editor of a small town paper.

Lippman is the 14th voluntary exit from the Calendar section in a little under two years, an unusually high rate of departures at a time when newspaper jobs are increasingly hard to come by. We’ve heard grumblings about the section’s editor, Sallie Hofmeister, but as Kevin Roderick points out, Lippman was a Hofmeister hire, and his departure is apparently nothing to do with his boss.

After the jump, the updated list of Calender refugees:

1. Kate Aurthur (TV editor)
2. Elizabeth Snead (blogger)
3. Denise Martin (reporter)
4. Pete Hammond (Envelope writer)
5. Tom O’ Neil (Envelope writer)
6. Richard Rushfield (web editor/writer)
7. Joseph Kapsch (web editor)
8. Rachel Abramowitz
9. Chris Lee
10. Ann Powers
11. Tim Swanson
12. Matea Gold
13. Maria Elena Fernandez
14. John Lippman