By Mike Archer. So; Abbotsford suffers from six solid years of declining building permits, housing starts and employment numbers and the Abbotsford News doesn’t share much of that information with…
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By Mike Archer. I used to work at the Abbotsford Times and made friends when I was there with some very nice, hard working and committed people. So there was…
By Adrian Barnes. – Editor’s Note: With the decision by Black Press to close the money-losing Abbotsford Times this week we thought a recent column from the Rossland Telegraph particularly appropos…
People accustomed to checking all three online media sources in Abbotsford woke up to a notice that the Abbotsford Times was unavailable. James Kwantes of the Vancouver Sun Tweeted this…
With revenues tanking and readership dying off the old newspaper media is going through an enormous number of significant changes in the coming weeks and months in the Lower Mainland….
Ever since the news of a swap of suburban community newspapers between between Glacier Media Group and Black Press the company’s stock has been on somewhat of a roller coaster…
After a sharp but brief rise in its stock price in October Glacier Media’s stock seems to have been dropping as quickly as it jumped on the news they had…
As the newspaper industry continues to shrink some of the repercussions will be hitting close to home for employees of the Abbotsford Times and other Glacier Media publications as the…
Huffington Post is reporting that Black Press, owners of the Abbotsford News and Chilliwack Progess, will soon own the Abbotsford and Chilliwack Times. That will leave the two communities with…
By Mike Archer. In a piece published on the Abbotsford Times entitled, ‘Current bylaw does not allow for ACS housing project,’ Mike Welte, the president of the Abbotsford Chamber of…