Sackville Tribune-Post
Before year-end, we want to acknowledge one of our most enduring institutions, the Sackville Tribune-Post. Celebrating it's 100th anniversary this year, the Trib, as it's affectionately known, continues its tradition of proudly serving and promoting Tantramar. For generations, the paper has played a key role in bringing citizens together, keeping them abreast of current events, and taking a stand on issues that affect the region.
Few communities our size can stake claim to a weekly newspaper of this calibre. From the first issue in February 13, 1902 to today, the Trib makes 'no excuses or apolgies'.Year after year, the staff bring home Blue Ribbon awards for quality editorials and reporting from the Canadian Community Newspapers Association.
Part of the paper's success has been its ability to adapt to change - indeed, to take advantage of technology. The Trib was one of the first papers to report online and has offered its readers continuous online service since 1998. Users simply log on to www.tantramar.com/trib where they have instant access to editorials, columns, special features, arts and entertainments, sports, and entire front page articles. Every issue since April 29, 1998 has been archived and is searchable either by year and issue, or by keyword search.
While the online version offers convenience to local readers and researchers, it has incredible appeal to a wider audience. Readers log on from Japan, Israel, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Spain, German, Franc, Trinidad and Tabago, and all points in between. Online readers include former residents, families and relatives of people who live here, and people who are thinking of living here. Students studying or working abroad, in particular, enjoy the sense of community that comes from reading the Tribune.
Here's to another century of spreading the news, bringing people together and being the best hometown paper on the world wide web!