The ''Lloydminster Meridian Booster'' is a newspaper based out of
Lloydminster
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Alberta
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Saskatchewan
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, Canada. It is published weekly on Wednesday. It publishes a mix of community, provincial and national news and is owned by the Lloydminster Source, another newspaper based out of Lloydminster.
History
In 1958, Byron Keebaugh founded Meridian Printing Ltd. and founded the Meridian Booster the following year in 1959. Keebaugh an early adopter of offset printing, introduced the technology to Lloydminster at a time when it was generally only used in larger newspaper markets like Edmonton and Calgary.
The Booster was later sold to Sun Media.
Following the founding of the Booster, Keebaugh also came to own numerous community newspapers including The
Vermilion Standard
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The Meadow Lake Progress, and the
Bonnyville Nouvelle.
In December 2016,
Postmedia
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, the successor to Sun Media, sold the newspaper to the Lloydminster Source.
See also
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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 – ...
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Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association
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Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Da ...
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://www.meridianbooster.com
Mass media in Lloydminster
Newspapers established in 1959
Weekly newspapers published in Alberta
Weekly newspapers published in Saskatchewan
1959 establishments in Alberta
1959 establishments in Saskatchewan