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You have reached the official site of The Ellesmere Echo, Ellesmere's only privately owned community newspaper.
Our Mission: To connect and inform communities throughout the Ellesmere and Selwyn district (Canterbury, New Zealand) and to provide a quality newspaper that will help strengthen those ties.
Circulation: 3,000 –This covers the area from Southbridge, Leeston, Doyleston and RD 13 together with rural delivery areas RD 2 & RD 3 in between. There are additional drop-off points in Rakaia, Lincoln, Springston and Rolleston.
Extra coverage is now included through this site, the Selwyn App and on Facebook.
We, at the Echo try to be environmentally friendly with all our business decisions and wish to inform our readers that we have chosen environmentally friendly inks and we print on recycled paper.
We support local and our paper is printed nearby by Canterbury Print Service in Christchurch.
ATTENTION!
The Ellesmere Echo paper is also going into lock-down due to COVID-19.
There will be a delivery of the newspaper this week, however, this will be the last paper to be delivered for the foreseeable future.
We will continue to have our on-line presence. Please all keep safe. Stay at home!!
