Published every Wednesday, it holds a mirror to the world of the Highway 35 corridor from Norland to Dorset.
Thirty years from now the current cars will look just as old fashioned as the high-behinds the Keystone Cops used – little by little they adapt to the pressures of a changing world.
In 1979, Jack Brezina left his job as the editor of the Cochrane Northland Post to buy the newspaper, which was now called the Minden Times.
One of his strongest memories is of the paper led the campaign against was he calls "the skinhead invasion" in Minden 1989.
The gathering at a rural property north of the village garnered national attention and the Minden Times made sure everyone knew the community did not tolerate the views espoused by the skinheads and neo-Nazis.