End of an Era: A Goodbye from the Crier

Four and a half years ago the South Bruce Peninsula Crier was created to provide an easy, accessible and searchable archives, and subscribe-able feed channel for the otherwise hidden public announcements embedded in the official town website's PDF postings; in the past year our process has largely been thwarted by the increasing use of PDF files containing only document image scans although a few documents did continue to be machine-readable for our reposting process. 

No longer.

The Town of South Bruce Peninsula unveiled their new corporate website today, and with that new birth comes the final demise of the SBP Crier; their new town site is even more opaque than the previous edition, and it is no longer possible for us to poll, mirror and syndicate their press releases.  Although their new site does sport the webstandard RSS icon, their feed only covers the events calendar announcements already available on the saublebeach.com feed more conveniently subscribable through Google Calendar.  So as for what is happening out of council these days?  Or for the latest on what bylaws have been added, tenders offered or consultant studies funded? The official answer appears to be 'Go Fish'.  Or buy the $2 wad of dead tree they call a 'newspaper' and hope for the best.  Or maybe sit in MacBeths between 9am and 11.

Unfortunately we lost the password for this site years ago, so we can't take it down, and without that password Google tells us we cannot reassign the rights to anyone else.  Thus this site will now site as a static archive, and a monument to an earlier era of municipal transparency.  So it goes.

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