The Nisqually Valley News is a weekly newspaper based in Yelm in Thurston County, Washington.
[2][4] Another News founder was Elmer Keller Fristoe,[5] a traveling advertising salesman who settled in Yelm following WWI.
[7] Fristoe was made an honorary lifetime member by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association[8] and he served as Yelm mayor for ten years.
[11] In 2007, a Washington superior court judge in Pierce County approved a prior restraint order that censored a story the News planned to run on a Roy city councilwoman investigated by police for criminal assistance and obstructing a public servant.
The gag order was dropped a few days later after state Attorney General Rob McKenna intervened.