Bolivar County will be getting a new weekly newspaper starting in May.
After the news broke two weeks ago that the 104-year-old Bolivar Commercial is set to publish its final paper at the end of this month, Delta Magazine publisher Scott Coopwood announced this week plans to start a new weekly paper that will be based in Cleveland called The Bolivar Bullet.
“Like everyone in this community, we were also sad to read The Bolivar Commercial was closing its doors,” Coopwood, who has been in the magazine and newspaper publishing business for thirty-one years, said in a release this week,
The first edition of The Bolivar Bullet will publish May 6, according to the release.
Along with Delta Magazine, Coopwood also publishes, the Delta Business Journal, Delta Ag Journal and The Welcome Guide.
This is not Coopwood’s first venture into the weekly newspaper business in Bolivar County,
From 2011-2017, Coopwood published The Cleveland Current.
“Every small town needs a newspaper for a variety of reasons,” said Cleveland Mayor Billy Nowell. “Many of us grew up reading The Bolivar Commercial and the announcement came as a big surprise…Scott was the logical choice to approach about publishing a newspaper for the town. No one could imagine Cleveland not having a newspaper.”
Coopwood said that the overall strategy of the new venture will be to “marry the printed newspaper on Wednesdays with our digital platforms that we update every day.”
“Between the two, we’ll be able to deliver news to Cleveland and Bolivar County in a significant way,” Coopwood said.
