The Western Star is a daily newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and also serving Stephenville and the Bay of Islands, Bay St. George and Humber Valley areas.
The paper was founded in 1900 in Curling, as a weekly newspaper. It became a daily in 1954. It has been owned since 2002 by the Montreal publishing company TC Transcontinental and is the only daily newspaper in western Newfoundland, and also has readers outside its main coverage area in Labrador.
The Western Star is a sister publication to The Telegram of St. John's.
Famous quotes containing the words western and/or star:
“Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man’s hunting ground.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“What is Africa to me:
Copper sun or scarlet sea,
Jungle star or jungle track,
Strong bronzed men, or regal black
Women from whose loins I sprang
When the birds of Eden sang?”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)