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The Gazette has been around for a long time.

It was first published the year after General Armstrong Custer was defeated at the Little Big Horn and the United States celebrated its centennial.

In 1877, the founding year of the Gazette, the Nez Perce Indians under Chief Joseph tried to escape Idaho for Canada, being stopped in Montana in the dead of winter. That is when Joseph famously proclaimed to “fight no more forever.” The Gazette was well established when the Gunfight at the OK Corral took place and later when Geronimo surrendered.

Ulysses S. Grant was President of the United States, giving way to Rutherford B. Hayes. Well after the paper was founded, Washington became a state. In fact, a type drawer in the office shows a delivery address of Washington Territory.

First called the Palouse Gazette, the paper has been published without a break, making it the state’s oldest continuously-published newspaper.

Through those years, the world, the country, the state and the county have changed dramatically. The newspaper has changed as well.

The paper has evolved with society and culture.

It will continue to evolve.

Now, at the start of 2017, it is a good time to ask what readers most want to see in the Gazette.

Let us know what you would like to see in the upcoming year. Let us know what you like, what you don’t like.

We do get information such as this regularly from calls and notes and comments on the back of renewal notices. Each is taken seriously, although rarely are they published.

This is just extra encouragement to give us your opinions and suggestions. The comments we are asking for are just for us and ultimately you.

If you do not wish to respond at the moment, keep this request in the back of your mind. The Gazette is dedicated to remain important and relevant to the county as it has for 140 years. So please, write or email and give us your thoughts.

Gordon Forgey

Publisher