Cosmos receives national award for YDHR story

The Uxbridge Cosmos has received a national award for a story it published last December.

“YDHR may be facing final derailment,” by Roger Varley, received third place in the “Best News Story, Circulation up to 9999” category of the 2024 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards. Winners of the competition were announced Monday.

According to the judge’s comments, the piece was “A great civic-watchdog submission that started by paying attention to reports and municipal decisions, and following the money.”

The article was one of several that the Cosmos published concerning York-Durham Heritage Railway’s collapse in the latter part of 2023.

A prestigious annual awards program, the CCNAs feature 27 unique categories honouring outstanding editorial, photography, multimedia and overall excellence in community newspaper publishing. The 2024 winners were selected from 760 entries for work published in 2023.

First place in the category went to the Squamish Chief in Squamish, BC, and the Reporter, which covers Port Hawkesbury, NS.

This is the Cosmos’s third CCNA.