Ken Graham: FROM THE PUBLISHER

“Hyperlocal” has become a popular term to describe the kind of news that newspapers like The Times present to our readers. Here’s a definition of the word from Wikipeda:

Hyperlocal connotes information oriented around a well-defined community with its primary focus directed toward the concerns of the population in that community. The term can be used as a noun in isolation or as a modifier of some other term (e.g. news).

The “well-defined community” that The Times serves is actually a group of communities we call the Touchet Valley.

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