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All the news that’s fit to print…in Waitsburg

January 21st, 2010 by tristan baurick

TimesTypeBannerHead over here for my big long story about the Matthee family’s decision to leave Bainbridge Island and take over a weekly newspaper in a tiny town in the state’s far southeast corner.

I called them up because I figured they must be crazy. Turns out they are not.

Imbert and Karen say they’re doing the work they love in the type of small, close-knit community they long wanted to be a part of.

And their newspaper, the Waitsburg Times, is doing just fine (unlike a whole lot of other newspapers). Subscriptions are up and the 131-year-old paper is making its first forays into the cyber-age. They don’t have a website yet, but you can follow the Times on Facebook, facebook.com/waitsburgtimes, or on Imbert’s Twitter page, twitter.com/ImbertMatthee.

To get a look of Waitsburg and the Matthees at work, check out the photo gallery shot by Walla Walla-based Gregory Lehman.

And if you’re still curious about the Waitsburg Times, check out this article Time magazine did in 1983 about the newspaper’s former editor, who also happened to be the town mayor.

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