A word from the new owner

You’ve read that your hometown newspaper has been sold. You’ve been told that newspapers are failing. You may have even heard “print is dead.”

Now, you are concerned local news and sports coverage will be disappear. You’re worried that that you’ll have to look to the Internet to see what’s happening in your neighborhood.

B way of an introduction, let us assuage your concerns.

We are Free Press Publishing, Eastern Washington’s largest community newspaper group. Our publications are found in mostly rural communities across four counties. A majority of our employees either grew up in Eastern Wash...