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= Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune =

The Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune is a weekly newspaper published on Thursdays based out of the border town of Oroville, WA. It serves the cities of Oroville and Tonasket, as well as several unincorporated areas in northern Okanogan County. The circulation is 1,925 copies, reaching 19% of households in its target areas. The paper's managing editor is Gary DeVon.

As part of the Library of Congress' Chronicling America program, 632 issues of the newspaper have been archived. The collection includes papers published from January 1, 1909, to December 21, 1923.

History
The Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune was founded as the Oroville Weekly Gazette in June 1905. It was solely owned by Frederick Jay Fine until he hired Frank Middlemore Dallam as editor in 1909. Fine sold his share of the paper in 1911 to Frank M. Dallam Jr., and the Dallams quickly shifted the paper's political leanings in favor of the Republican Party. With the party's schism during the presidential election of 1912, the Gazette sided with the traditional conservatism of William Taft over the progressive republicanism touted by Theodore Roosevelt. The paper became less partisan and more dedicated to hard news stories in September 1923 when it was bought by Frank Spalding Emert, who had prior journalism experience.

At some point, the newspaper was renamed the Oroville Gazette . The name was changed with the 1974 merger of the Gazette and the Tonasket Tribune, forming the Gazette-Tribune. The Gazette-Tribune then became the North Okanogan County Gazette-Tribune in 1984. The newspaper changed its title once more in 1991, becoming the modern Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune .

Previously, the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune was owned by NCW Media, Inc. The newspaper was acquired by its current owner, Sound Publishing, on August 1, 2011.

Awards
The Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune has won several awards through the Washington Newspaper Publisher Association's Better Newspaper Contest. In 2017, the Gazette-Tribune won one award for photography and four awards for writing, including one First Place win for Best Government Reporting. In the 2019 contest, the Gazette-Tribune took home five photography awards and three writing awards.