Nisqually Valley News

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Nisqually Valley News
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)CT Publishing LLC
Founder(s)Elmer K. Fristoe
Sam Sparks
EditorJessica Keller
Founded1922
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters401 Creek St. SE Ste B Yelm, Washington 98597
Circulation 4,000(as of 2022) [1]
OCLC number 18338016
Website yelmonline.com

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]

Contents

History

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]

Censorship

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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References

  1. ↑ "The Decline of Local News and Its Impact on Democracy" (PDF). League of Women Voters of Washington Education Fund. 2022-11-14.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Nisqually Valley News (Yelm, Wash.) 1922-Current". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  3. 1 2 3 "Nisqually Valley News newspaper in Yelm Washington - MondoTimes.com". MondoTimes. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  4. 1 2 N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory. N.W. Ayer and Son. 1923.
  5. ↑ "Social And Personal Items". The Chehalis Bee-Nugget. May 12, 1922. p. 9.
  6. ↑ Fox, Bill (January 11, 1949). "Yelm Area Has Own Weekly Publication". The Olympian. p. 1.
  7. ↑ "Around South Sound | Miller chosen top citizen". The Olympian. January 11, 1989. p. 12.
  8. ↑ "Elmer Fristoe Honored By Publisher's Group". The Olympian. September 29, 1957. p. 19.
  9. ↑ "Death Claims Elmer Fristoe". The Olympian. January 9, 1964. p. 1.
  10. ↑ "New owner buys Nisqually Valley News". The News Tribune. January 5, 1994. p. 17.
  11. ↑ "Nisqually Valley News Sold to New Owners". Nisqually Valley News. 2020-12-31. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  12. ↑ O'Callahan, Patrick (July 4, 2007). "Freedom of the press got run over in Roy". The News Tribune. pp. B6.


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