AVERY COOPER: The Walla Walla [WAHL-uh WAHL-uh] Union-Bulletin newspaper plans to shut down its printing press later this month. The paper will then be printed in Idaho. N-W-P-B’s Erick Bengel reports.

ERICK BENGEL: The September Fifteenth edition of the Walla Walla [WAHL-uh WAHL-uh] Union-Bulletin will be the final edition printed out of the newspaper’s local printing press.
The Seattle Times Company owns the paper. With rising costs and employee departures, the company decided running the Walla Walla press wasn’t sustainable.
Greg Halling [HALL-ing] is the senior news director for Seattle Times affiliate newspapers. He says the Union-Bulletin itself is NOT closing.
GREG HALLING: “We’re going to continue on our Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday publication schedule. The paper’s just going to be printed in Lewiston. But the newsroom is going to remain intact.”
BENGEL: The paper reports that about ten full- and part-time jobs will be eliminated. And severance packages have been offered.
In Walla Walla, I’m Erick Bengel.