A Reminder to Niagara At Large Readers

A Note from Niagara At Large publisher Doug Draper 

Due to family issues we are continuing to deal with following the death of my father earlier this November, Niagara At Large will remain slow until early December.

The wake from a ferry boat on Cape Cod Bay, File photo by Doug Draper

We have few other options but to beg your patience as we choose the proper time in the near future to ramp up Niagara At Large as a vital, alternative news and commentary voice in a Greater Niagara Region that embraces all of Niagara, Ontario and our cross-border neighbhours in Buffalo/Erie and Niagara Counties, New York. 

Forced with a decision to ramp down at this time, I am well aware that this could mean death for the future of this site since, the way it goes in this highly competitive online reality, you have to keep feeding the beast (or piling the posts on) or web surfers will simply go somewhere else. And everything you have worked for in the past to build up a readership or visitors to your site is done. 

Yes, I am well aware of that and if this is the end of NAL, then so be it. At least I can say I gave it a try. 

And I am sure of this. If this Niagara area online news site goes down, another will most certainly come along to fill the void left by mainstream media, owned and operated by corporate outsiders, who have been doing such a crappy job of covering local news on the Niagara, Ontario side of the border. (I leave the Buffalo News, Art Voice and other Buffalo area publications out of this criticism because they, in my estimation anyway, are still at least trying to offer their communities meaningful news and commentary.)

So there we are. I can only ask you now to stand by while Niagara At Large gets through this valley and prepares to climb the next mountain.

Thank You, Doug Draper 

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