Bugle-Observer

The Bugle-Observer is a newspaper based in Woodstock, New Brunswick, which provides local news to Carleton and York Counties. The paper publishes twice weekly, on Tuesday and a weekend edition on Friday.

History

The paper is owned by the Irving family's Brunswick News. The paper has gone by the name of The Bugle since the early 1980s until it was sold to Brunswick News in 2003. Before being called The Bugle, the paper was called The Carleton Sentinel. The paper in neighboring town Hartland, the Observer, was bought by Brunswick News soon after. Brunswick News combined both paper's staffs into one office in Woodstock, publishing each paper separately for a short time before combining them into one single edition to cover both towns and surrounding areas.

Brunswick News owns all of New Brunswick's English language daily newspapers and the majority of the weeklies.

In September 2007, publisher Ken Langdon resigned from the Bugle-Observer and joined with local entrepreneur Dwight Fraser to launch a rival newspaper independent of Brunswick News called the Carleton Free Press. Brunswick News launched an unprecedented court action to prevent Langdon from using his alleged insider knowledge to place the Bugle-Observer at a competitive disadvantage.