The Pierce County Community Newspaper Group (PCCNG) consists of four newspapers in the

Tacoma, Washington Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Pa ...

area. The papers include the ''

Tacoma Weekly ''Tacoma Weekly'' is a weekly community newspaper published by Pierce County Community Newspaper Group The Pierce County Community Newspaper Group (PCCNG) consists of four newspapers in the Tacoma, Washington area. The papers include the ''Tacoma ...

'' (formerly the ''Tacoma Monthly''), the ''Fife Free Press,'' and the ''Milton-Edgewood Signal.'' The ''Tacoma Monthly'' began in 1987 and became a weekly paper in 1994. It is distributed around Tacoma. The ''Fife Free Press'' began in August 2003 and is published every other Thursday. It is distributed in Fife and is mailed to every business and residential address within the city limits. The ''Milton-Edgewood Signal'' began in January 2004 and is published every other Thursday. It is distributed to

Milton, Washington Milton is a city in King and Pierce counties in the U.S. state of Washington. The population was 8,697 at the time of the 2020 census. Milton borders the larger but newer town of Edgewood. Geography Milton is located in northern Pierce County ...

and

Edgewood, Washington Edgewood is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 12,327 at the 2020 census. Neighboring towns include Fife to the west, Milton to the northwest, Federal Way to the north, Sumner to the east, and Puyallup to ...

. The publisher of the Pierce County Community Newspaper Group is John Weymer. In a recent two-year period, publisher John Weymer paid $9,157.06 in

wage theft Wage theft is the failing to pay wages or provide employee benefits owed to an employee by contract or law. It can be conducted by employers in various ways, among them failing to pay overtime; violating minimum-wage laws; the misclassificati ...

claims that were filed against him at the Washington Department of Labor and Industries.

References

{{Reflist Newspapers published in Washington (state) Companies based in Tacoma, Washington