''The Enterprise'' was a

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based in

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, United States. It published several editions to serve the cities of

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Lynnwood Lynnwood is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The city is part of the Seattle metropolitan area and is located north of Seattle and south of Everett, near the junction of Interstate 5 and Interstate 405. It is the four ...

, and

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, from 1958 to 2009. The newspaper was acquired by ''

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'' in 1996, where it was merged with a

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newspaper, and ceased publication in 2012.

History

''The Enterprise'' was launched in 1958 by Barry O'Connor and Orville Danforth, former reporters for the ''

Marysville Globe The ''Marysville Globe'' is a weekly newspaper based in Marysville, Washington, United States. It is owned by Sound Publishing and was established in 1891. History The ''Marysville Globe'' was founded as ''The Leader'' in 1891 and changed its na ...

'' under Simeon R. Wilson III. The first edition of the newspaper was published on September 12, 1958, serving Edmonds and Lynnwood. A Mountlake Terrace edition was added in late 1958, followed by editions for northern

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communities in the 1970s that were later cancelled. In 1960, ''The Enterprise'' was sold to the Lafromboise family, who also operated '' The Chronicle'' in

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. The Lafromboises also purchased the '' Edmonds Tribune-Review'', which had been founded in 1910. The newspaper added a new edition to serve Mill Creek in the 1980s. It was sold again to ''

'' in 1996, where it absorbed ''Shoreline Week'' to produce a new edition. The four editions were consolidated into a single edition in 2009 and renamed to ''The Weekly Herald'' two years later. ''The Weekly Herald'' ceased publication on August 29, 2012, after failing to meet revenue expectations.

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