The Medicine Hat News published its first edition 140 years ago today, then known as the Medicine Hat Times.--NEWS IMAGE ALISON PELTIER

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ZOE MASON

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On Oct. 29, the Medicine Hat News marks its 140th anniversary.

The News is the longest-standing media outlet in Medicine Hat, continuing to grow and change with the city it serves. In honour of the anniversary, longtime subscribers, current employees and News alumni reminisced about the paper’s storied past and undeniable impact.

Legend has it, the News was born in a boxcar.

Two years after establishing Calgary’s first newspaper, the forerunner to today’s Calgary Herald, two Ontarians moved to the small railway town of Medicine Hat. It was October 1885, and Medicine Hat was a fledgling

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