A Note from Niagara At Large publisher Doug Draper
Due to flooding rains this late July, Niagara At Large office space and computer hardware have been swamped with water. It may therefore take three or four weeks until this site is back on line.
Thank you for any patience our many loyal readers may share with us during this difficult period.
Just a final word to say that Sun Media, the owner of the three daily newspapers in Niagara, Ontario has made more crippling cuts to its newsroom resources at the St. Catharines Standard. That newspaper has virtually been stripped of resources beyond any that would allow it to do a decent job of covering much more than crime and traffic accident stories in this region – so tragic for what was once one of the great local community papers in the province and country.
All the more reason why the rest of us have to work together to build new media for news and commentary in our greater Niagara region. Only we can do it!!!
Niagara At Large 
Indeed. I was told “1 reporter, 4 editors to go, by buy-out or seniority, and that by October The Standard will be run from its “hub’ in London. I noted in today’s edition (Peter Conradi’s first day as head honcho) that all but one article in the A section was by Dan Dakin. That leaves Herod, Dakin, Grant L, Karena Walter, Cheryl Clock (I’m guessing) Bergsma, and who? Covering what? Gas bar break-ins? Traffic deaths?
Looking forward to seeing NAL back online. So sorry about the flood. It should have been more selective in what to flood! Not NAL.
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We will wait patiently for our great news resource Doug. Gracia
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There is a sameness in all the Niagara area papers, they cover the same stories, and they wind up in all three papers, it is just advertising and Chamber of Commerce junk, of no interest to the common man.sorry to hear that the flood got you as a victim.keep on slogging. we need your blog.
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Doug, sorry to hear of the flooding. Been there done that! How might we help?
Hi Gary, Thanks for your kind note. We have no flood insurance due to previous flood episodes involving the infrastructure in this area of Thorold, so if someone out there knows a millionaire who might wish to donate to a cleanup fund, that might work. Other than that your generous words do help. Doug Draper, publisher, Niagara At Large
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Sorry to hear of your NAL problem Doug
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me too Doug. I passed on the info to anyone I knew who might check out NAL…. just btw, who is Rob Tripp? My oh my, he does not like this online news source, it appears. Your objectivity in allowing him to comment is to be commended.
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