About Us

Over two decades of community news!

The Triangle emerged thanks to the friendship between Rosemary Millard and Louise Brown. They saw the need for something new after a discussion in 2002 about how hard it was to find out what was going on in the Triangle from Bega or Narooma papers. After an initial​ injection of funds by an anonymous donor, the paper was already funding itself after one year thanks to local business advertising.

Louise said in 2013 when she stepped aside, ‘You can create something, but it can only be deemed a success if it survives when you walk away’. It has survived. While the look and technology behind it has changed, the participation of the community contributing articles about the issues they care about and the events they are organising has not. The publication continues to survive thanks to this vibrant community generating ideas and contributing articles, and also our advertisers, with some businesses supporting us from the very beginning, including the Cobargo Coop, Miracles by the Sea, the Dromedary Hotel, Benny’s Butchery and others.

We have consistently had monthly updates from Cobargo, Tilba and Bermagui, and more recently from Quaama (since 2008) and Dignams Creek (since 2022). Other regular features are My Triangle profiles, Service Directory, Thumbs (up and down), the Entertainment page (changed to Fridge Door), Garden Magic (now What’s Growin’ On), and the Book Review (began in 2009). We have had lots of other sections that readers might remember like the Police Report, Sporting News, Brogo Babble, Mullet Ova (the fishing report), Blokes of the Triangle, Horse Hype and Water Watch. It would be great to see those sections make a comeback.

One of our proudest editions came in February 2020, the Bushfire Issue. Of the nine Triangle committee members at the time, eight had been evacuated on New Year’s Eve. Still, an issue was put together after inviting the readership to send their stories, photos and poems. We published everything we received, with our usual 36 pages growing to 60 pages of stories of our community holding together with heartbreaking courage and selflessness.  Readers said that edition was ‘a comfort’, ‘a precious reminder’, and ‘the glue that binds us together’. It was an honour to be of service in this way.

From being a print-only community newspaper (for a time generated on our own photocopier), we gained a virtual presence as part of the begavalley.com site initially, before setting up our own domain in 2015. Colour front pages made a big impact in 2015. And since May 2025 we have a refreshed website design.

We have really progressed from a humble, small publication to something the committee and all the Triangle community can be proud of. And what a marvellous record it is of this area – the issues that mattered enough for people to write about it. For those who want to research local history, The Triangle archive is available on our website and through Trove on the National Library’s website. The archive is also fully searchable through a nifty little tool on our website.

Past members of The Triangle committee

A lot of work is involved in generating a monthly publication including technical and computer work, getting and writing the news, selling the advertising space, paying the bills, as well as editing, layout and distribution of the paper.  Some of these marvelous people worked on The Triangle for over 10 years and many continue to contribute articles. Thank you one and all!