The ''Bugle-Observer'' is a
newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
based in
Woodstock, New Brunswick
Woodstock is a town in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada on the Saint John River, 103 km upriver from Fredericton at the mouth of the Meduxnekeag River. It is near the Canada–United States border and Houlton, Maine and the inter ...
, which provides
local news to
Carleton and
York Counties. The paper publishes twice weekly, on Tuesday and a weekend edition on Friday.
History
Woodstock's newspaper began as two papers, ''The Bugle'' and ''The Observer'' in the neighbouring town of Hartland. The papers merged to become the ''Bugle-Observer'' and now provides Carleton County with the latest news and events. In 2008 ''The Bugle-Observer'' celebrated its 100th anniversary in the Woodstock market, one of the oldest newspapers in New Brunswick. The ''Bugle-Observer'' is published Tuesday and the ''Bugle-Observer Weekend'' is distributed Friday.
The paper is owned by
Brunswick News
Brunswick News Inc. is a Canadian newspaper publishing company based on Bloor Street in Toronto. Once privately owned by James K. Irving and based in Saint John, New Brunswick, it was sold to Postmedia in 2022.
Brunswick News Inc. (BNI) was inc ...
. The paper has gone by the name of ''The Bugle'' since it began in 1963 until it was sold to Brunswick News in 2003. When the ''Bugle'' began there was a rival newspaper called ''The Sentinel Press''. Soon after the merge, a competing paper, called the ''
Carleton Free Press
The ''Carleton Free Press'' is a defunct Canadian weekly newspaper that is published twice a week in Woodstock, New Brunswick.
It covered Carleton County and the upper Saint John River valley and was owned by local entrepreneur Dwight Fraser and ...
'' was established by its former publisher, Ken Langdon. That paper folded after a year.
In 2022, the ''Bugle-Observer'' was sold along with other Brunswick News brands to Postmedia Network Inc.,
becoming a digital-only newspaper.
See also
*
List of newspapers in Canada
This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers
Local weeklies
Alberta
* Airdrie – ''Airdrie Echo''
* Bashaw – '' Bashaw Star''
* Bassano – ''Bassano Times''
* Beaumont – ...
References
External links
*
Brunswick News publications
Newspapers published in New Brunswick
Woodstock, New Brunswick
Publications with year of establishment missing
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