Who says it's hard being Green? Lone Sheep welcomes The Nelson Daily!
By Nelson Daily Editor
By Adrian Barnes, Lone Sheep Publishing
This week, we’re proud to announce the latest addition to the Lone Sheep family of newspapers: The Nelson Daily.
Owned and operated by Timothy Schafer and Bruce Fuhr, both formerly of the now-defunct Nelson Daily News, the new The Nelson Daily promises to be a vital and vigorous replacement for that publication and an important addition to the civic, recreational and cultural life of Nelson.
Here at Lone Sheep, we’re proud to assist Timothy and Bruce in their new venture. We encourage you to check the paper out and let your Nelson and Slocan Valley friends and colleagues know about it. Timothy and Bruce bring over 40 years of journalistic experience to this project, and they’ve already loaded the site with a ton of great content, to be updated … daily.
When Black Press bought and then immediately shut down the century-old Nelson Daily News a couple of months ago, it looked for a while as though Nelson would be condemned to a future of only two weekly newspapers after 120 years of daily newspaper coverage.
Thankfully, this will not be the case. There will continue to be a plurality of voices in Nelson — including a locally-owned and environmentally-responsible one. In fact, across the West Kootenay there are now two clear choices: all the remaining print papers owned by the Victoria-based Black Press chain, or the online newspapers part of the locally-owned Lone Sheep network. It’s non-local and non-green versus local and green. We like to think, for readers and advertisers alike, that it’s an easy choice.
In the words of the owners, their new venture is, “created within Nelson, written, researched and delivered in a style that reflects what West Kootenay people need to know – on a daily basis. The Nelson Daily is committed to that ideal, bringing you news from City Hall, the Regional District of Central Kootenay, from the world of sports, the area’s vibrant arts scene and everything in between, every day, any time, from anywhere that matters to Nelsonites.”
Event listings, classifieds, obituaries: everything you expect to find in a traditional newspaper … and much more.
Needless to say, The Nelson Daily will be a full part of the Lone Sheep West Kootenay news network, along with The Boundary Sentinel in Grand Forks, The Castlegar Source, and The Rossland Telegraph, with the Trail Champion nearly set to go. From now on, readers of those papers will be able to see important Nelson stories featured in the regional section, or simply click on a link and go to the paper itself. And vice versa.
Here at Lone Sheep we believe the future will be local and that it’s important for folks in Grand Forks to know what’s going on in Nelson, and for Nelsonites to be aware of initiatives and news in Rossland and Castlegar. The more we know about each other, the more we can get together, support one another and build a brighter tomorrow for this amazing region we all know and love.
Good luck, Timothy and Bruce!
Adrian Barnes is one of the publishing partners in the regional online news chain Lone Sheep Publishing.
