For less than the price of a coffee you can support an essential local news service in your own community!
The Forster Fortnightly is proud to be a local family-owned business that was launched on 20th August 2020.
For 4 years, the Yule family have published and delivered 7,000 FREE newspapers across the Forster Tuncurry region. It is also FREE online – making it accessible for everyone. (You might have seen our family members delivering and restocking shelves from Hallidays Point in the north, to Seal Rocks in the south).
The Forster Fortnightly has relied solely on paid advertising from our fabulous local businesses and organisations to remain viable.
With your support, this vital news service can continue to provide reliable, factual and independent news!
Since 2020 the Forster Fortnightly has:
- Helped raise the profile of many great local organisations that care for our community and environment.
- Provided a Letter to the Editor feature for people to have a voice and reply.
- Provided a Local Calendar & Weekly Diary for local events and clubs.
- Promoted activities, education opportunities and services available for our local youth.
- Freely provided a balanced coverage of all candidates in Local, State and Federal Elections.
- Covered natural disasters and available emergency services (and Covid times.)
- Published information/grants/workshops that support local businesses and organisations.
- Celebrated the achievements and awards of individuals, schools, businesses and organisations.
- Promoted people and organisations that are addressing major issues in our region, including: – the need for better health services, the rising cost of living and homelessness, domestic violence support, environmental and climate change action, road safety concerns, better planning of coastal development, the need for a new slipway and the issue of sand shoaling.
We are now working hard at securing our local news service for the future and offer a FREE subscription for each edition, as well as local news alerts, community updates and videos.
Thank you for your support. Mary Yule – Editor & Publisher of the Forster Fortnightly