ACROSS the nation

About 120 employees now work in the new complex, which consolidates several locations, as well as the newspapers each printed, including the daily Skagit Valley Herald, the weekly Anacortes American, Courier-Times and Argus newspapers, as well as several specialty publications.

Skagit Publishing has also reached an agreement with the McClatchy Co. newspaper chain to print the McClatchy-owned Bellingham Herald daily newspaper, slated to begin mid-2009.