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Skagit Valley Herald
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The Skagit Valley Herald is a daily newspaper serving Skagit County, Washington. It has a circulation of 8,774.[1]
Skagit Valley Publishing also publishes the weekly Anacortes American, Fidalgo This Week, The Argus, Stanwood Camano News, and Courier-Times.[2]
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The Skagit News was founded in 1884 as a weekly newspaper.[3] In 1922, it was renamed to the Mount Vernon Herald and transitioned to daily circulation.[4]
In 1924, the paper's publisher M. J. Beaumont was assaulted in his office by monument maker D. Frets, who was upset about paper's criticisms on the work done on the cornerstone of the new courthouse. Beaumont in an editorial called it a "billboard cornerstone" and demanded it be removed because "a monument maker had been given the right to place his advertisement on the cornerstone."[5]
Beaumont sold the paper in 1926 to Harry B. Averill.[6] Averill published the paper for decades until selling it to brothers M. D. Glover and W. H. Glover Jr. in 1954.[7] The paper's name was changed two years later to Skagit Valley Herald.[4] The Glovers and others established the Herald-American Publishing Co. in 1961 to manage the Herald and Anacortes America,[8] which was acquired by Skagit Valley Publishing Co. in 1964. This venture was affiliated with Scripps League Newspapers,[9] which at the time had an controlling interest in Pioneer News Group.[2] In 2017, Pioneer sold its papers to Adams Publishing Group.[10]
Starting March 1, 2023, the paper transitioned from carrier to mail delivery.[11]
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