By Ian Harvey
In a front page story Bluff Monitor’s Lee Graves says she’s up against a deadline to find new offices or she will have to sell or close the community newspaper.
“We must move by the end of July,” she wrote in the May 2015 edition making an appeal for affordable ground floor space.
Bluffs Monitor Publisher Lee Graves
Graves, 84, started the paper as a non-profit community service in 1983 to address several Birch Cliff issues such as the Scarborough Expressway and the future of the Quarry Lands.
While a fall has impeded her mobility somewhat, she is battling on “doing the jobs of four people.”
Asked if she could update Birch Cliff News, Graves said: “I can’t say anything more at the moment. Things have changed since I wrote that and there are three or four options now and it’s tricky.”
Aside from moving, shutting down the paper is the worst case scenario but she’s also hopeful a sale will be possible.
“I hope to resolve this soon because I have to leave in two months otherwise,” she said.
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The first issue of the Bluffs Monitor (originally called Birch Cliff News) was published on May 20, 1983.
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