As we wrap up our 2024 subscription drive we want to express our gratitude to all of our readers and advertisers who keep this independent newspaper going from week to week.
We asked for your support and you delivered.
In 2025 The Creemore Echo will be turning 25 years old and we hope the community will join us in celebrating the newspaper’s evolution from a broadsheet launched by the Wigginses to a single sheet photocopied “Planner” and back to a broadsheet that continues to grow in size and scope.
Leading up to the anniversary next spring, we hope to dust off the archives and haul out some of the stories that demonstrate how the community has connected through the pages of The Creemore Echo – as a historical record, an event planner and political watchdog.
We hear a common refrain from people visiting our Newsstand retail store on Caroline Street West, “I can’t believe this town still has a newspaper.” They often express how much they miss the local newspaper in their home community and how local news from a trusted source is very hard to come by.
In fact, this community has had a newspaper, almost continuously, since the late 1800s.
It reminds us all that we are stewards of this vehicle for news and information and it is not to be taken for granted.
For that, you have only yourselves to thank. Not every community has as many boosters, champions and patrons as this one. To those who gave extra during our subscription drive, we give you a public salute on page 5.
Our team so enjoyed chatting with everyone who came by to say hello while we were at the Creemore Farmers’ Market these past three weeks. And thank you for your kind words and encouragement.
It’s not too late to subscribe and have a say about the direction of the newspaper.
We are still taking subscriptions and we are circulating a readers’ survey, all available at creemore. com. In the coming weeks we will be tallying all the responses and reporting the results to the community.
As always, your participation is very much appreciated. Whether a survey response, a subscription, a letter to the editor, a news tip, a classified ad, or a calendar entry, we value all levels of engagement.
The Creemore Echo would not exist without the support of the community and, as is the case with other small towns who have lost their source of local news, we believe it would be missed if it were to go under. We cannot let that happen. We have come too far. And, we have much to celebrate.