At the time of its closing, The Lindsay Post had a subscription-based paper on Tuesdays and a Friday edition that was delivered to homes free across the City of Kawartha Lakes.

In April 2009, it switched back to Fridays when its printing moved from Peterborough to a new state-of-the-art press in Toronto that gives the paper full colour.

For 100 years, the newspaper operated at 15 William Street South, a historic building where the Freemasons once leased the third floor.

The Canadian Post, a liberal weekly, was started in Beaverton in 1857 by C. Blackett Robinson and moved to Lindsay in 1861.

The Post was left to be run by his brother-in-law George T. Gurnett until 1873, when it was taken over by Charles D. Barr, night editor of the Toronto Globe.

Lytle was succeeded as editor by Allan Gillies who, with the help of Ford Moynes of Stratford, launched The Daily Warder in 1903.

Sam Porter of The Post staff published a Lindsay News Item for a few weeks in 1895, and a Free Press was started on May 8, 1908, but it ceased publication on February 20, 1909.

I have been involved with The Lindsay Post in different roles for almost 10 years, and we have made numerous attempts to change the business model to try and make this operation sustainable.