About Warman Gazette

Warman Gazette

Overview

The Warman Gazette is the community newspaper serving Warman, Saskatchewan, and the neighbouring city of Martensville, two of the fastest-growing municipalities in the province. Readers should note the nameplate under which the paper actually publishes: the newspaper appears as the Clark's Crossing Gazette, and it is under that title that it is listed in Saskatchewan sources, including the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly library's page of links to the province's current weekly newspapers, which records it as "Clark's Crossing Gazette (Warman)". This profile follows the inventory name "Warman Gazette" in its heading, but the operating newspaper is the Clark's Crossing Gazette, based in Warman and covering Warman, Martensville and the surrounding area of the Rural Municipality of Corman Park. It is a weekly community newspaper owned since its establishment by Terry Jenson and his wife Angela, through their company Jenson Publishing, and it remains one of the relatively few Saskatchewan community papers still in the hands of its founding local owners.

History

The Clark's Crossing Gazette was established in 2008. The date and the ownership rest on the Government of Saskatchewan's official cabinet biography of Terry Jenson, which states that he "has owned the Clark's Crossing Gazette, a community newspaper covering the Martensville-Warman area, since it was established in 2008"; the Legislative Assembly's member records corroborate the same account. The paper was founded into a market that was changing quickly. Warman and Martensville, twin commuter cities just north of Saskatoon, were at that time already being described in provincial coverage as among the fastest-growing cities in Saskatchewan, and their growth created a readership for a dedicated local paper separate from the Saskatoon dailies. Jenson brought long industry experience to the venture: his government biography credits him with 26 years in the community newspaper industry, following earlier work on air at radio stations in North Battleford and Prince Albert. Around 2019 and 2020 the Gazette shifted its emphasis toward online publishing while continuing to appear as a weekly newspaper, a transition described by Our-Hometown, the platform company that hosts the paper's website. The paper has earned awards from the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association (SWNA), the provincial association of community newspapers, according to the same hosting record. Jenson himself has been a figure in the industry beyond his own paper, serving as a past-president of the SWNA and as a past-president of Ad Canada Media Inc., the national advertising sales organisation for community newspapers.

Programming and Content

The Gazette's content is the standard but essential diet of a Saskatchewan community weekly: municipal council coverage for Warman and Martensville, rural municipality affairs in Corman Park, school and community news, local sports, and coverage of the growth and construction questions that dominate two rapidly expanding cities. Its current reporting is independently visible in 2025 and 2026 records. Kevin Berger reports for the Gazette under the Local Journalism Initiative, the federal programme that places reporters in underserved communities; a Berger story dated 24 May 2025 examined a Martensville fire chief controversy involving allegations of "patient abandonment" and was syndicated to Canadian Firefighter magazine, and an October 2025 Berger story reported a Martensville bat-bite and rabies warning following events of 30 September and 1 October 2025. Muck Rack's profile of Gazette journalist Terry Pugh carries Gazette stories from July 2026, including coverage of Warman council's 20 July 2026 meeting on RCMP staffing, construction statistics reported through 7 July 2026, and coverage of the Laird Valley Bluejays U17 team's trip to nationals in Surrey, British Columbia, on 5–9 August 2026. The paper's regional reach is also visible municipally: the minutes of the Town of Dalmeny council meeting of 6 July 2026 file a Gazette item, "Is a Municipal District in Corman Park's Future?", among the documents before council, showing the Gazette circulating as a source of record in neighbouring communities beyond its two home cities.

Audience and Reach

The Gazette's audience is the population of Warman and Martensville and the surrounding Corman Park area, a commuter belt whose rapid growth is the paper's founding context and its continuing story. Provincial coverage by outlets such as the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Global News has repeatedly counted Warman and Martensville among Saskatchewan's fastest-growing cities, and a community paper in such a market serves readers who need council, development, school and recreation news that metropolitan dailies cover only lightly. The Gazette's reporting travels beyond its home market through syndication, as the Canadian Firefighter pickup of its May 2025 Martensville story shows, and through journalist databases such as Muck Rack, which tracks its reporters' output. No independently verified circulation figure for the Gazette was found in the sources consulted for this profile, and none is asserted here; community weeklies of this size commonly do not publish audited figures, and readers should treat any unattributed circulation claim for the paper with caution.

Digital Presence

The Gazette publishes online at ccgazette.ca, on a website platform hosted by Our-Hometown, the United States-based community newspaper platform company whose client record for the paper dates from about November 2019, when the Gazette was welcomed onto the platform as it shifted focus toward online publishing. The site carries the paper's current reporting and serves the Warman-Martensville area under the Clark's Crossing Gazette nameplate. For the record of this directory: the Gazette's own domain could not be loaded by this project's research fetcher, which was blocked from the site, so this profile is compiled from publisher, association, governmental and municipal records rather than from a direct read of the live site; a visual check of the site and its current masthead is owed at the publish stage of this directory entry, and the site's presentation should be confirmed there before the entry is finalised.

Ownership and Organisation

The Gazette is owned by Terry Jenson and his wife Angela Jenson, who have held it since its establishment in 2008, operating through Jenson Publishing of the Warman-Martensville area; the company name appears in municipal records, including a City of Martensville accounts-payable record listing Jenson Publishing as a vendor, and in the paper's own document templates. Terry Jenson's parallel public career is a matter of record: after his years in community newspapers and radio, he was elected to the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly as the member for Martensville-Warman in 2020 and re-elected as the member for Warman in 2024, and he entered cabinet as Minister of SaskBuilds and Procurement in May 2024 before becoming Minister of Social Services in November 2024. His past-presidencies of the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association and of Ad Canada Media Inc. place the Gazette's owner among the recognised figures of the Canadian community newspaper industry. The paper's newsroom operates with a small staff supplemented by its Local Journalism Initiative reporter, Kevin Berger, whose byline appears on its council and emergency-services coverage in 2025 and 2026, and journalist Terry Pugh, whose Gazette work is tracked through July 2026.

Contact and Availability

The Clark's Crossing Gazette is based in Warman, Saskatchewan, and serves Warman, Martensville and surrounding communities as a weekly newspaper with continuous online publication at ccgazette.ca. Readers looking for the paper in Saskatchewan directories and link lists should search under its publishing nameplate, Clark's Crossing Gazette: that is the title used by the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly library's newspaper links page and by the paper's own site. This directory entry is filed under the inventory name "Warman Gazette" with the inventoried website, and its publish-stage checks should confirm the site's current masthead, the paper's current print schedule, and its current advertising and subscription contacts directly on the live site, since those operational details rest on third-party records at the time of writing.