Throughout 2022 the Snoqualmie Valley Record has brought you stories that celebrate the common bonds that connect the people, businesses, nonprofits and community groups of North Bend, Snoqualmie, Fall City and Carnation. In this past year’s print and digital pages, we hope you’ve been informed, enlightened, inspired, entertained or educated by coverage of the things that make our Valley unique and the people that help keep the Valley ticking.

As we tell the story of the Valley, the Valley Record continues to provide accurate, fact-based reporting that offers public scrutiny and oversight. The Valley Record’s local coverage by professional, experienced reporters and editors also need to be supported to ensure that we can provide valuable and unbiased journalism. And readers up and down the Valley have stepped up to continue the Record’s mission by investing in our print and digital content. We appreciate and thank each and every one of our subscribers. Your support helps keep us going!

I’d also like to give a shout out and thank our advertisers. Throughout the roller coaster ride that was 2022, they continued to brand their businesses and promote their products, services and events. This too provides great support that continues our journalistic mission:

All-Star Heating, Air Conditioning & Electric, Baxter Barn, Alyssa Sprague at Birches Habitat, Beth Traverso Real Estate Group, Former Mayor Kim Lisk and the Carnation Fourth of July Committee, Central Washington University – Sammamish and Ellensburg Campus, Carmichael’s Hardware & Variety Store, Church on the Ridge, The City of North Bend, North Bend Block Party, Downtown Issaquah Association, Art Gallery of SnoValley, Jonathan Pearlstein at Engel & Volkers Snoqualmie Valley, Snoqualmie Ridge Block Party, Fall City Community Association, Kevin & Laurie Hauglie and Anji Donaldson of the Kevin Hauglie Agency/Farmers Insurance, Fall City Days, Fall City Holiday Festival, Flintoft’s Funeral Home, Historic Downtown Snoqualmie, Sifu Johann Sasynuik at The Kung Fu Club Fall City/Issaquah, King County Council District 3’s Sarah Perry, Several Departments within King County, North Bend Les Schwab Tire Center, Level Up Acupuncture, Ben Cockman at Mount Si Sports & Fitness, Westlake Ace Hardware in North Bend, Encompass NW, Mount Si Family Dentistry, North Bend Festival Committee, North Bend Downtown Foundation, Festival at Mount Si, North Bend Block Party, North Bend Fitness, Overlake Hospital & Medical Center, Red Oak Senior Residence in North Bend, Saints and Scholars Irish Pub, Francesco Ristorante Italiano & Francesco Montalto, North Bend’s Sip, Suds and Si, Si View Metropolitan Parks District, Sigillo Cellars, Karin Simpson and the Simpson Group Real Estate, Snoqualmie 5K Trail Run, Snoqualmie Casino, Sno-Falls Forest Theatre, Sherwood Korssjoen at Snoqualmie Ridge Storage, Snoqualmie Valley Preservation Alliance, Snoqualmie Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce, Snoqualmie Inn by Hotel America, Snoqualmie Red, White and Boom, Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation, Snoqualmie Days Festival, Snoqualmie Valley Hospital, Friends of Snoqualmie Valley Trail & River, Richard Anderson at NW Railway Museum, Visiting Angels of Snoqualmie Valley, our friends at Valley Center Stage and many more. I’d also like to offer my gratitude to the many Valley families from near and far that celebrated the lives and marked the passing of their departed loved ones in our obituary pages. These groups, businesses and nonprofits ran print or digital display ads, branded content online stories or targeted email blasts with us in 2022. We certainly appreciate their business and their trust and look forward to serving them in 2023.

Each and every one of our readers and these local businesses, nonprofits and groups have my personal thanks for supporting the Valley Record and www.valleyrecord.com or by subscribing at www.valleyrecord.com/subscribe.

As we move through the first month of 2023, I wish you and your families the very best in this still new this year.

On the news side, if you have a hot tip, a great story idea, a comment or critique or a letter to the editor, please connect with me or our award-winning reporter and editor. We’d love to hear from you! Coming up, we have our annual “Spotlight on Business” pages on Jan. 27; Health, Wellness and Fitness pages in late February; and in March, a sports preview and a celebration of Valley Women in Business.

William Shaw is the general manager and publisher of the Snoqualmie Valley Record. Contact: wshaw@valleyrecord.com.