"Thank you for your May 4th, 1989 letter sending me a few issues of The Hampstead Herald....I congratulate you for this fine looking weekly...."
— May 8, 1989 letter from former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
"It certainly seems to me you are producing a quality product [The Hampstead Herald] and I wish you and everyone associated with it every success in the days ahead." — June 6, 1989 letter from Rowland C. Frazee, former CEO of The Royal Bank of Canada.
"The Weekly Herald - the sassy, intelligent weekly aimed at an upscale west-end audience is on the brink..." — February 5, 1991, excerpt from Montreal Gazette columnist Albert Nerenberg.
"The Weekly Herald, the west-end community newspaper hailed as a model for successful weeklies, has folded after less than two years of publication. Decreasing advertising revenues forced the closing of the weekly..." — February 6, 1991 article in the Montreal Gazette.
"Newspaper tiger Perley pounds pavement to resurrect the Herald" — June 6, 1991 headline from Montreal Gazette columnist Jack Todd.
"Perley and a group of young, loyal former Herald staffers have a dream, and neither wind nor rain nor sprained knees will keep them from trying..." — June 6, 1991 excerpt from Montreal Gazette columnist Jack Todd.
"Perley is an iconoclast, and there are never enough of those to go around." — November 21, 1991 excerpt from Montreal Gazette columnist Jack Todd.
"It was with profound regret that I learned of the closing of the Weekly Herald, a newspaper which I admired and respected immensely." — February 5, 1991 letter from then-mayor Bernard Lang of Cote St. Luc, a Montreal-area municipality.
"It is with regret that we learned that the Weekly Herald will no longer come to our community. The staff of your newspaper did an excellent job of obtaining the facts and presenting their articles in a professional and objective manner. This was truly appreciated." — February 5, 1991 letter from Mayor Vera Danyluk of the Town of Mount Royal, a Montreal-area municipality.