Since 1976, when owner Carol Edwards first began putting out the paper in her garage, The Woodinville Weekly has been dedicated to bringing local news, issues and events to the community. As the area has grown, so too has the paper, from a circulation of 5,000 to approximately 30,000 today. The Woodinville Weekly and its two sister publications, The Northlake News and The Valley View, serve the communities of Woodinville, Duvall, Carnation, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park. Carol Edwards started the Woodinville Weekly in her garage the spring of 1976. Edwards, a civic leader and vital force within the Woodinville community, published the paper through 2007 until her death, October 27, 2007, from ALS. Edwards once commented on the papers’ beginnings, "My family, including six very small children, had moved to Woodinville in 1976. My parents lived here and I was returning to the Northwest from California. By fall of that year, I was desperate for information. What activities were there for kids, where was a library, what was going on in town and what was available in the way of services? As a former teacher, social worker, sheriff’s marshal and organic farmer, I had a lot of experience with hard work, information gathering and dissemination. I also had an AB Dick table-top press and an eight-foot process camera which I had bought on a whim a year earlier and hauled with me to Woodinville.