About us

The Sequim Gazette is located at 147 W. Washington Street in Sequim (our entrance and parking is in the alley behind Washington Street).  Business hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Phone 360-683-3311, or toll free at 800-829-5810. FAX 360-683-6670. For a complete company directory with contact information please click on Contact Us link at the top of the page.

The Sequim Gazette is Sequim's hometown newspaper since 1974. The Sequim Gazette is a paid, weekly, 8,500 circulation newspaper published every Wednesday. The Sequim Gazette is a member of the Washington Newspaper Publisher's Association and the National Newspaper Association and has won numerous awards over the years for excellence in journalism including General Excellence in 2005 and 2006. The Sequim Gazette is actively involved in the community and supports numerous local events and organizations among them The Irrigation Festival in spring, The Lavender Festival in summer and the Farms Tour in the fall.

Olympic View Publishing is the parent company of the Sequim Gazette and also publishes The Forks Forum a weekly newspaper serving the west end since 1930 as well as two Homes~Land real estate magazines serving the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island. Olympic View Publishing employs 40+ people in Sequim and Forks.

The Mission Statement of the Sequim Gazette is to:

• Be an objective voice of the City of Sequim and the Sequim-Dungeness Valley community and provide a way for each citizen's voice to be heard.
• Inform and enlighten readers with meaningful, insightful and in-depth news coverage, community profiles and opinion.
• Provide the local business community and its customer's clear, creative and effective forms of marketing.
• Grow, through teamwork and dedication, a profitable and viable newspaper publishing company providing family wage jobs which afford our employees the opportunity to give back to the community we serve.

History Of The Sequim Gazette

Shirley Larmore founded the Sequim Gazette in January 1974. Started as The Sequim Shopper, Shirley and her husband Bob quickly transformed this free distribution shopper into a weekly community newspaper, The Jimmy Come Lately Gazette on July 10, 1974.

In 1978 Shirley sold The Jimmy Come Lately Gazette to Leonard and Linda Paulsen. Leonard was publisher until his death in 1982 and Linda Paulsen carried on as publisher until she sold the newspaper to current owner, Brown McClatchy Maloney in September 1988.

In April of 1990 a re-design of the paper brought about a change in the masthead and Jimmy Come Lately was dropped. However, some long time community members still refer to the Gazette as "the Jimmy".