Chinook Observer

The Chinook Observer is a weekly newspaper serving the Long Beach Peninsula of Washington state.

The newspaper is named after Chinook, Washington, where the paper was founded in 1900 by George Hibbert and Frank Gaither.

[2] James' son Wayne and daughter in law Frances took over the paper in 1963 and operated it for the next 20 years.

[3] In 2018, the Chinook Observer won the statewide Public Service Award from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association in recognition of its coverage of immigration issues and ICE enforcement activities.

[2] The original Linotype machine, a Mergenthaler, was taken out of service in the 1970s and is on loan to the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco.

Chinook Observer staff July 4, 1903, taken at the newspaper's first office.
Chinook Observer office 1905
Bob Duke drone photo of downtown Long Beach, WA
Observer office interior circa 1905