''The Forks Forum'' is a weekly

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published on Thursdays serving the city of

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in the U.S. state of

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History

This newspaper was established in 1931 to serve Forks and the surrounding rural communities of the western

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. Newspaper publishing on the coast side of the Olympic Peninsula had been underway since 1890. In 1990, the ''Forum-Peninsula Herald'' was sold by Lorraine Maris to Maloney Publishing Co. Maloney also owned the ''Jimmy Come Lately Gazette'' in Sequim and the monthly ''Peninsula Business Journal''. Throughout its history the Forum has been notable as the "Farthest west newspaper in the contiguous United States."

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, a division of Canada-based Black Press Group, purchased ''The Forks Forum'' in October 2011 from previous owners Olympic View Publishing Company. In early 2020, ''The Forks Forum'' went entirely digital due to

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setbacks and returned in May 2020 with a broadsheet format rather than their former tabloid-sized format.

References

External links

Official website
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