[OMS_MANAGERS] Announcing The Coburg Countryman Newsletter

[Bethe Patrick]

Megan,

Wow, congratulations on your newsletter!  Thanks so much for sharing the
information about starting a newsletter, it gives me so many ideas.

Bethe

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 4:43 PM Megan Dompe <coburgmainstreet at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All!
>
> Coburg Main Street has successfully executed the first issue of the new
> community newsletter, The Coburg Countryman. To give some context, The
> Coburg Countryman was originally the town newspaper that ran it's last
> issue in 1971. Our look of our newsletter is an homage/revival of that
> paper.
>
> Here is the digital copy of the first issue:
> https://www.coburgmainstreet.com/the-coburg-countryman
>
> In addition to the digital distribution, we have 300 paper copies printed
> and available to pick up from Coburg City Hall and various businesses
> around town. We intend to increase that number if needed. We are assuming
> most will read the newsletter online and so far they have.
>
> This will be a quarterly newsletter with a longer Summer issue doubling as
> a visitors guide.
> ___
>
> In the spirit of "recipe sharing", I wanted to share how we produce this
> in a way that is manageable for our main street program.
>
> We use this company as the base for our production:
> https://www.printnewspaper.com/
>
> While we created our own template, they have templates readily available
> that are compatible for both Canva and InDesign. All are very drag and
> drop, and very easy to learn.
>
> All of the individual organizations represented in the newsletter
> submitted their own articles pre edited with photos by a hard deadline. I
> then format articles into the template and submit the rough draft to two
> board members. They "red pen" and send back to me for finals. From there,
> Print Newspaper prints the paper copies and we upload online. That's it.
> ________
>
> As we are all trying to figure out how to navigate our programs with
> impactful and sustainable projects keeping in mind capacity and funding,
> this was something that I thought even the newest main street program could
> manage if their community was in need of a town newsletter.
>
> Please feel free to reach out with questions, I am happy to help.
> ___
>
> I have also included the schedule and poster for our up and coming
> festival, Christmas in Coburg. Happy to answer questions about that as well
> or feel free to join us as it's going to be a fun weekend!
>
> Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving with your family and friends!
>
> Megan Dompe
> Director of Coburg Main Street
> PO Box 2875
> Coburg, Oregon 97408
> (541)913-6570
>
> "Start where you are,
> Use what you have,
> Do what you can."
> - Arthur Ashe
> [image: Outlook-oqfl5f5k.png]
>
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