But as community newspapers are shuttered by media giants, what happens to those newspapers' archives, keepers of stories and advertisements, letters to the editor and photographs? "If there's one source that can give you a sense of what's happening, politically, socially, culturally, economically, the community newspaper is it." "Another way you can look at it is, community newspapers, over time, are the community scrapbook." In St. Marys, the family that used to own the paper, until the 1990s, donated archives to the St. Marys Museum. "Community newspapers allow an understanding of issues over time.

Source: CBC News December 06, 2017 18:12 UTC