The ''Lloydminster Meridian Booster'' is a newspaper based out of

Lloydminster Lloydminster is a city in Canada which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The city is incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administra ...

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Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...

, Canada. It is published weekly on Wednesday. It publishes a mix of community, provincial and national news and is owned by the Lloydminster Source, another newspaper based out of Lloydminster.

History

In 1958, Byron Keebaugh founded Meridian Printing Ltd. and founded the Meridian Booster the following year in 1959. Keebaugh an early adopter of offset printing, introduced the technology to Lloydminster at a time when it was generally only used in larger newspaper markets like Edmonton and Calgary. The Booster was later sold to Sun Media. Following the founding of the Booster, Keebaugh also came to own numerous community newspapers including The

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, The Meadow Lake Progress, and the Bonnyville Nouvelle. In December 2016,

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, the successor to Sun Media, sold the newspaper to the Lloydminster Source.

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* {{Canadian journalism Mass media in Lloydminster Newspapers established in 1959 Weekly newspapers published in Alberta Weekly newspapers published in Saskatchewan 1959 establishments in Alberta 1959 establishments in Saskatchewan

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