The Mount Vernon-based Skagit Valley Publishing Co. has struck a tentative deal with the McClatchy Co. newspaper chain to begin printing the McClatchy-owned Bellingham Herald starting sometime next year.
The agreement means that the Bellingham paper, a 22,000-circulation daily, will be printed at Skagit Valley Publishing Co.’s new headquarters, now under construction east of Interstate 5 along Anderson Road in Mount Vernon. The deal is expected to be finalized within a few weeks. The new building should be fully occupied by early next year, and Skagit Valley Publishing could be printing the Bellingham newspaper as early as April 2009.
