Every time I publish an article, I think about the people who did this before me. Before websites. Before Instagram. Before cameras that fit in your pocket. They set type by hand. They printed on presses that weighed as much as a car. And they delivered the news to a town so small that a newspaper could fit on four pages and still cover everything worth saying. This is the story of Dunedin’s first newspaper—and the people who kept it going for nearly a century. The First Ink: 1884 The city of Dunedin first encountered printed news in late July 1884 . The paper was called the West Hillsborough Times, and it served the larger county that Dunedin was still part of at the time. It was a modest operation. The paper ran just four pages. The first and last pages carried local news—the births, deaths, meetings, and moments that mattered to a small farming town. The second and third pages were filled with general reading material and entertainment articles, purchased from a firm in …