By: The Columbia Basin Herald will begin testing the idea of a Sunday edition this weekend, Publisher Harlan Beagley has announced.
"We're guaranteeing porch delivery by 5 a.m.," Beagley said. "In the 66 years this newspaper has been publishing, this will be the first Sunday edition."
Until now the five day-a-week publication of Hagadone Newspapers has printed its weekend edition Friday. The first Sunday issue will include a questionnaire asking readers what they like and dislike about it, Beagley said.
"The answers on that survey will help shape future Sunday newspapers," he said. "There has yet to be a date set for the future Sunday papers. Once we gather this data, it will give us cost and content feedback. Then we will take that information under advisement."
The Tri-City Herald, The Wenatchee World and The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, all with Sunday editions, offer street delivery in Moses Lake, and Beagley said most readers in the area want a Sunday newspaper.
"People tell me they would really like to see a Sunday edition added to our subscription," he said. "The most important thing to me is people remember to go out to their newspaper box Sunday."
Carriers may choose to deliver the paper Saturday evening, he said.
"We're trying to make this as easy on the carriers as possible, so we're going to print as quickly that day as possible," he said.
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