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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