Cashmere Valley Record

In November 1906, lawyer Arther H. Mohler moved to Cashmere from Minnesota. He was soon admitted to the Washington State Bar Association. At the time The Wenatchee Advance circulated a Cashmere edition, composed mostly of content about Wenatchee.{{Cite news |date=October 24, 1935 |title=Judge Mohler Edited & Published First Cashmere Record; Held City Offices |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}} Talk of starting a local paper came up a Cashmere Commercial Club and Mohler bluffed, offering to start a paper if the club agreed to buy $40 worth of ads a week for a whole year. His bluff was called, and Mohler launched the Cashmere Valley Record on February 8, 1907.

Mohler used a Washington hand press he bought from the editor of the Leavenworth Echo and other equipment previously used by the defunct The Cashmere Democrat. The first print run was 200 copies. At the time the editor of The Advance wrote the Record wouldn't last six months. But the paper survived an after two years Mohler sold it to his printer J. D. Corselius. He sold the paper around 1912 to I. T. Raab and repurchased it about a year later.{{Cite news |date=October 10, 1913 |title=Notice |work=The Leavenworth Echo |pages=2}} In 1922, the paper was purchased by Henry Everett VanOmermen. Six years later the paper had 2,000 subscribers.{{Cite news |last=Cassidy |first=Mike |date=February 4, 1987 |title=80 and still here |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=2}}

VanOmermen operated the Record for 26 years until selling in June 1948 to Vernon R. Frost, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Washington and former publisher of the Cheney Free Press.{{Cite news |date=June 29, 1948 |title=Valley Record Changes Hands |work=The Spokesman-Review |pages=27}} He made a deal with Donald Zylstra, a recent UW journalism graduate, for him to work as editor and co-publisher in exchange for slowly being sold the paper by Frost over a few years until one day becoming sole-owner.{{Cite news |last=Gjullin |first=Kurt |date=March 7, 1990 |title=Record's look changed in '50s |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}} Zylstragrew frustrated with his inability to grow the paper and left in 1951, going on to a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Frost worked with three other editors until selling the Record in January 1954. The new owners Orlo and Garnet Mohr operated the paper until 1962. Charlie and Dorothy Hears succeeded them.{{Cite news |last=Gjullin |first=Kurt |date=March 14, 1990 |title=Highway hurt late 50s' Record |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}} The purchased the Pilot Rock News in Oregon and sold the Record to Joe and Leslie Brown in September 1965.{{Cite news |date=September 2, 1965 |title=New Publisher For Valley Record |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}}{{Cite news |last=Gjullin |first=Kurt |date=March 21, 1990 |title=Record changed hands often in Sixties and Seventies |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}}

In 1971, Earl Petersen, owner of the Leavenworth Echo, purchased the Record from Joe Brown. He sold both papers a year later to Kenneth Herr and Leslie Parr, joint publishers of the Grant County Journal in Ephrata.{{Cite news |date=September 7, 1972 |title=Ken Herr, Les Parr {{!}} New Owners |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}} In August 1973, Charles "Chuck" and Hedy Hartnett bought the paper. In November 1978, Charles Hartnett sold the paper to Miles and Jane Turnbull.{{Cite news |date=November 9, 1978 |title=A change in ownership for your local newspaper |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}} They sold the Record on July 22, 1979 to John and Gloria Reichmann.{{Cite news |date=June 28, 1979 |title=Cashmere Valley Record sells to Oak Harbor couple |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}} On July 19, 1984, the Reichmanns sold the paper to Mike and Donna Cassidy.{{Cite news |date=July 18, 1984 |title=Cassidys buy Record |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}} The paper was purchased again in 1989 by Jim and Amy Davis.{{Cite news |date=August 2, 1989 |title=Cashmere Valley Record is sold |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}} They were succeeded by Jeff and Liz Gauger in March 1995.{{Cite news |date=March 15, 1995 |title=Cashmere Valley Record is sold |work=The Cashmere Valley Record |pages=1}} Prairie Media, the paper's publisher, was sold in 1998 to Gaylen G. and Bruce R. Willett.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1998-04-18_131_16/page/84/mode/2up|title = Editor & Publisher 1998-04-18: Vol 131 Iss 16|date = 18 April 1998|publisher = Duncan McIntosh}} In 2000, the papers were sold to NCW Media, Inc., owned by Bill and Carol Forhan.{{cite news |date=March 8, 2016 |title=Newspaper owner named Leavenworth's Royal Lady |url=http://www.cashmerevalleyrecord.com/newspaper-owner-named-leavenworths-royal-lady |accessdate=August 16, 2018 |work=Cashmere Valley Record}} Two decades later NCW Media, Inc. sold its papers to Ward Media, LLC in August 2023.{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |date=2023-08-14 |title=Ward Media, LLC acquires 5 newspapers in North Central Washington from NCW Media, Inc. |url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/ward-media-llc-acquires-5-newspapers-in-north-central-washington-from-ncw-media-inc,245200 |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=Editor and Publisher |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=August 12, 2023 |title=NCW Media Inc. completes sale of five local newspapers to Ward Media LLC |url=https://www.leavenworthecho.com/news/ncw-media-inc-completes-sale-five-local-newspapers-ward-media-llc |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=The Leavenworth Echo |language=en}} Six months later the paper launched an new website.{{Cite web |last=Ward |first=Terry |date=2024-02-13 |title=A new chapter for the Cashmere Valley Record |url=http://cashmerevalleyrecord.staging.communityq.com/stories/a-new-chapter-for-the-cashmere-valley-record,72434 |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=Cashmere Valley Record |language=en}}

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