Editor’s note: The following is a note from the Courier-Herald’s publisher. A previous version of this article incorrectly named Editor Ray Miller-Still as the reporter. The article has been updated.
The Courier-Herald building will soon be on the market.
After Sound Publishing and Black Press, the newspaper’s parent companies, was sold to Mississippi-based publisher Carpenter Media Group in late January, multiple Washington state newspaper offices were put up for sale. This includes the 6,829-square-foot building at the corner of Enumclaw’s Cole Street and Myrtle Avenue.
While the historic paper’s building will change ownership sometime in the future, Editor Ray Miller-Still said that he’s been assured that the Courier-Herald will continue to operate in the same office space and that there will be no interruption in its public services to local residents — which includes continuing to print the newspaper.
“We’re here to stay — no ifs, ands, or buts about it,” Miller-Still said. “Times might be changing, but my commitment to factual news reporting and our sales team’s dedication to supporting local business is steadfast. We’ve been a community pillar for more than a century, and will remain one for the next.”
The Courier-Herald has gone through numerous changes over the years, including the merger of the Enumclaw Courier and the Enumclaw Herald in 1933, and the absorption of the Buckley News Banner in 1973.
The Courier-Herald used to print out of its 1627 Cole Street building until its offices were torn down around 2003-2004, but a new building was built in the same location and inhabited by staff in June 2005. At this time, the Courier-Herald covered Black Diamond, Enumclaw, Buckley, and as of 2004, the Bonney Lake and Sumner areas; the Bonney Lake-Sumner Courier-Herald was its own sister publication until it merged with the Courier-Herald in 2016.
Sound Publishing bought the newspaper in the summer of 2008 from publisher Bill Marcum and the estate of Ted, John, and David Natt.
The Courier-Herald moved around the corner to its current office at 1186 Myrtle Avenue office in May 2019.
