[OMS_MANAGERS] Announcing The Coburg Countryman Newsletter

[Megan Dompe]

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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