The ''Stanwood Camano News'' is a weekly

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serving Stanwood and

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. It had a circulation of 2,261 in 2020.

History

The newspaper originated in 1903 as the ''Stanwood Tidings''. The name changed to the ''Stanwood News'' sometime between 1917–1920, and again to ''Twin City News'' in 1930. Cliff Danielson took over the paper from owners Ray Horn and Harry Dence in 1959 and changed the name back to the ''Stanwood News'' a year later. In 1980, the name was changed to ''Stanwood Camano News''; two years later, the owner of the paper purchased the nearby ''Camano Island Sun.'' Dave Pinkham became the owner and publisher in 1985. He had previously worked as a reporter and then editor at the ''

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''. In 2009, Pinkham retired and the paper entered into a partnership with the ''

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'' to manage the Stanwood paper. The ''Stanwood Camano News'' maintained its office in Stanwood, but the printing of the paper was moved off site in June 2009 to ''The Herald'''s facility in Mount Vernon. In 2015, Pinkham sold the ''Stanwood Camano News'' to

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, publishers of the Mount Vernon-based ''

''. Two years later, all of Pioneer News Group's newspapers were sold to

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.{{Cite press release , last=Hammer , first=Barb , date=October 5, 2017 , title=Pioneer News Group selling media division to Adams Publishing Group , url=http://adamspg.com/pioneer-news-group-selling-media-division-to-adams-publishing-group/ , publisher=Adams Publishing Group , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105053713/http://adamspg.com/pioneer-news-group-selling-media-division-to-adams-publishing-group/ , archive-date=January 5, 2018 , access-date=April 8, 2023 In 2021, the newspaper moved to a new office in Stanwood.

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Newspapers published in Washington (state) Snohomish County, Washington 1903 establishments in Washington (state) Island County, Washington Newspapers established in 1903

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