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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | CT Publishing LLC |
| Founder(s) | Elmer K. Fristoe Sam Sparks |
| Editor | Jessica Keller |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 401 Creek St. SE Ste B Yelm, Washington 98597 |
| Circulation | 4,000(as of 2022) [1] |
| OCLC number | 18338016 |
| Website | yelmonline |
The Nisqually Valley News is a weekly newspaper based in Yelm in Thurston County, Washington. [2] [3] The newspaper is published weekly on Fridays with a circulation of 4,000. [3]
The Nisqually Valley News was first published in February 1922. [2] [3] The editor at that time was Sam Sparks. [4] The newspaper was originally independent and published by O.K. Press Company. [2] [4] Another News founder was Elmer Keller Fristoe, [5] a traveling advertising salesman who settled in Yelm following WWI. [6] Fristoe's son-in-law Don Miller took over the business around 1955 after Fristoe suffered a stroke. [7]
Fristoe was made an honorary lifetime member by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association [8] and he served as Yelm mayor for ten years. He died in 1964 after owning the paper for 42 years. [9] In 1994, Don and Charlotte Miller sold the News to Lafromboise Newspapers. [10] In 2020, the paper was sold by Jenifer Lafromboise of Lafromboise Communications, Inc. to Chad and Coralee Taylor, who own The Silver Agency in Chehalis. [11]
In 2007, a Washington superior court judge in Pierce County approved a prior restraint order that censored a story the News planned to run on a Roy city councilwoman investigated by police for criminal assistance and obstructing a public servant. The gag order was dropped a few days later after state Attorney General Rob McKenna intervened. The judge later apologized to the paper. [12]
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