Edition 1 February 2016
Monthly newspaper for Greyton and surrounding communities
WE’RE BACK
It is with pleasure that we welcome our readers to the
first edition of the newly re-launched Gre yton Sentinel. It
is with some trepidation that we follow in the footsteps
of our predecessors. The paper’s genesis was in 1979
when Helen Solomon published From the Market Place,
a succinct monthly newsletter. After a hiatus of several
years, Maire Peart began a similar newsletter under the
auspices of The Greyton Conservation Society that ran
for approximately three years. This was followed by The
Greyton Newsletter whose seven year run ended in 1996. It
was during 1994 that The Gre yton Announcer was
launched by Mike Tinney and Doug Bailes, and so for
approximately two years there were two village papers.
1999 saw The Greyton Mail becoming the sole village
newspaper. During an unsettled period for the Mail,
2001 – 2002, another rival paper, The Gre yton News,
was published. It had a limited nine issue run. The
Greyton Sentinel was born of the Mail, the latter’s 44th and
final issue published in 2003.
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The previous editors of the Greyton Sentinel to whom
we owe our thanks and appreciation were Pamela Duff,
Alan Blain, Gillian Kingston, and Carol Viljoen, each of
whom brought their own inimitable imprint to the paper.
Collectively they oversaw the publication of well over one
hundred issues of the Greyton Sentinel. We shall be
feeling our way, missteps will be inevitable, but hopefully
we shall not overly disappoint them, and more
importantly our readers, as we continue this journey.
Last but not least, let us not forget Robynn Hofmeyr’s
two year tenure as editor, during which she renamed the
paper Greyton Country News. We have reverted to
Greyton Sentinel for the reason best explained by Pamela
Duff, who, when describing the choice of name, wrote:
Around us stand beautiful mountains watching over the
village like silent sentinels. Long may our ‘Greyton Sentinel’
continue to watch over Greytonians, their activities, their
plans, their hopes, and their lives.
Indeed.
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