Saltwire sale: Newfoundland residents worry for culture loss as newspaper scales back [Video]

The final edition of The Telegram newspaper’s daily print hit the stands in St. John’s, N.L., on Saturday, marking the end of a 145-year run and a move to weekly print version with daily stories online.

The People’s Paper, as it is also known, was part of SaltWire Network, which was sold to Postmedia for $1-million in an agreement approved earlier this month. The sale did not include The Telegram’s printing press — the last of its kind in the province — which has left several other papers scrambling to find a new plan.

On Friday night, the plant fired up for what could be the very last time to print the last daily Telegram. The building is on the market for $5.9 million, and if nobody comes forward to buy it, it will be lost for good.

Nicole Penney, with Memorial University’s Folklore and Language Archive, said people have …