About Us

The Bonney Lake & Sumner Courier-Herald began in November 2003 as the Bonney Lake & Lake Tapps Courier-Herald, and offshoot of its Enumclaw progenitor. Sumner coverage was added in 2008 following acquisition by Sound Publishing and a subsequent merger with the Sumner Reporter. Our print edition brings you government and community news every Wednesday. Our Community Photography, Business, Seniors, and Education sections run the first, second, third and fourth Wednesdays of the month, respectively.

Your Community News Team

	Courier-Herald Editor Dennis Box 360-825-2555 ext. 5050	Dennis Box has been the editor of the Kent Reporter and the Covington-Maple Valley Reporter. He was an integral part of the start up team that launched the Bonney Lake Courier-Herald in 2003. Box began his career in media in the early 1980s as a writer and film editor with Pal Productions based in Seattle. Pal Productions produced a series of mountain climbing documentaries for PBS along with features, political films and commercials. In 1989 Box founded Parallax North, a motion picture production and writing services company. While operating Parallax North, he also wrote about government, politics, boxing, horse racing and produced humor columns for magazines and newspapers.
	Reporter Daniel Nash 360-825-2555 ext. 5060	Daniel Nash joined the Courier-Herald staff in September 2009. Born in Red Bank, New Jersey, he lived in North Carolina and Southern California before moving to Washington state in 2005. While attending the University of Washngton Tacoma, he became the news editor of the Ledger, interned at the Business Examiner and jointly produced a magazine with Russian students from Moscow State University. He currently lives in Enumclaw.
	Advertising Sales, Bonney Lake Dottie Bergstresser 360-802-8219	Dorothy "Dottie" Bergstresser has been with the Bonney Lake & Sumner Courier-Herald advertising sales team since its origin as the Bonney Lake & Lake Tapps Courier-Herald. She works tirelessly with her clientele to put their best face forward on all advertisements. She primarily represents advertisers from Bonney Lake and Buckley.
	Reporter Kevin Hanson 360-825-2555	With the Courier-Herald since 2001, following career stops in Cheney, Wash., Spokane, Wash., and Hermiston, Ore. Graduate of Washington State University. Time away from the job finds me at a campsite, in the garden or on a motorcycle. Family includes wife Sharon, daughter Marina, dogs Zoe and Savannah and other assorted pets.
	Reporter Brian Beckley 360-825-2555 ext. 5058	Brian Beckley is a reporter from Whitney Point, New York. During his salad days, he was the bassist for punk band The Disenchanted. He covers the city of Bonney Lake.