[OMS_MANAGERS] Announcing The Coburg Countryman Newsletter

Tue Dec 3 10:12:54 PST 2024

Megan – this is an impressive publication and looks like a good example of how a small town such as Coburg is filling a communication gap! Thanks for sharing….Sheri

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From: OMS_MANAGERS <oms_managers-bounces at omls.oregon.gov> On Behalf Of Bethe Patrick
Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 9:15 AM
To: Oregon Main Street Network Members <oms_managers at omls.oregon.gov>
Subject: Re: [OMS_MANAGERS] Announcing The Coburg Countryman Newsletter

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<mailto: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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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