The Better Newspaper competition run annually by the Atlantic Community Newspapers Association, resulted in the Courier chosen as a finalist in Class 1 for papers with a circulation of up to 3,000.

Winners will be announced May 31 in Halifax at the 36th annual ACNA conference.

Courier editor John DeMings is also a finalist in the best sports story or feature category for his feature, ‘Diamond sounds of summer’.

The Courier already had finished second in class for the best all round newspaper in the competition organized by the Canadian Community Newspapers Association. Along with the honor, the Courier wins a Blue Ribbon for display on the paper’s masthead.

As well, former reporter Jonathan Riley, now living in Germany, captured second place in the CCNA competition for best business writing with his feature ‘Gas regulation the final straw’, on the effects on a Long Island business.

The business writing winners were announced late by the CCNA.

This year saw more than 1,200 entries in the ACNA’s Better Newspaper competition.