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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Friday Harbor.

Our newspaper information for Friday Harbor is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

The following list contains the names of 7 papers that were published in the immediate area of Friday Harbor. In addition, the list contains another 57 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Friday Harbor. In total, we've identified 64 papers within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Friday Harbor.

To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Friday Harbor.  

Newspapers Published In Friday Harbor ...

We know of 7 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Friday Harbor:

Newspapers Neighboring Friday Harbor ...

The following newspapers were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Friday Harbor.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Friday Harbor.

  • Published In Lopez  ...
    • Island Record (from 1975)
    • Island Record (from 1975)
  • Published In Guemes [Skagit County] ...
    • Guemes Tillikum (from 1912)
  • Published In Anacortes [Skagit County] ...
  • Published In Oak Harbor [Island County] ...
  • Published In La Conner [Skagit County] ...
    • Channel Town Press (from 1976)
    • Kee Yoks (from 1982)
      • Years of publication:  1982 to 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Kee Yoks
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN94050908
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 30575973
    • The LaConner News (from 1938)
  • Published In Coupeville [Island County] ...
  • Published In Edison [Skagit County] ...
    • Industrial Freedom (from 1898)
    • Industrial Freedom (from 1898)
      • The first year of publication was in 1898, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card:   Industrial Freedom
      • Holdings:   LCCN SN88085617
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18032509
      • ISSN Number:   2333-8466
    • Puget Sound Phonograph (from 1891)
  • Published In Fairhaven [Whatcom County] ...
  • Published In Marietta [Whatcom County] ...
  • Published In Dungeness [Clallam County] ...
  • Published In Bellingham [Whatcom County] ...
    • We know of 57 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Bellingham. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Bellingham
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Friday Harbor. This extended list includes all the papers from Bellingham. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Friday Harbor

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Friday Harbor) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Friday Harbor. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.5342, Longitude: -123.0169