Sandy Post
{{short description|Newspaper in Sandy, Oregon}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Sandy Post
| image = Sandy Post front page.jpg
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| type = Weekly Newspaper
| format = Tabloid
| foundation = {{Start date|1937}}
| owners = Pamplin Media Group
| publisher = Steve Brown
| editor = Steve Brown
| circulation = 4,209
| circulation_date = 2022
| publishing_city = Sandy, Oregon
| headquarters = 1584 NE Eighth Street
Gresham, OR 97030
| oclc =
| ISSN =
| website = {{URL|sandypost.com}}
}}
The Sandy Post is a weekly newspaper in Oregon serving Sandy, the Villages at Mount Hood and the surrounding areas. It is owned by Pamplin Media Group.
History
The paper was founded in 1937.{{cite web |title=The Sandy Post |url=http://www.orenews.com/sandy |access-date=November 25, 2014 |publisher=Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association}} It was first published by Mrs. Fern G. Lambert on January 6, 1938. Orval G. Butler purchased the Post in 1940.{{Cite news |date=July 24, 1940 |title=Buys Sandy Paper |work=The Oregon Daily Journal |pages=10}} Butler sold it in 1947 to Tom B. Purcell, publisher of the nearby Gresham Outlook.{{Cite news |date=September 8, 1947 |title=Gresham Publisher Buys Sandy Paper |work=The Oregon Daily Journal |pages=8}}
Walter C. Taylor Jr. bought the two papers, along with several others Oregon, in the early 1960s.{{cite news |title=Longtime Northwest publisher dies at 87 |date=December 21, 2006 | work=The Oregonian |first=Robin |last=Franzen}} Taylor and Lee Irwin sold the newspaper in 1977 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co., which published the Albany Democrat-Herald.{{Cite news |date=February 10, 1977 |title=Publisher buys 4 weeklies |work=Statesman Journal |pages=37}}
Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980,{{Cite news |date=July 14, 1980 |title=Paper sale should be final today |work=Albany Democrat-Herald |pages=3}} which itself was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1995.{{cite news |author=Geraldine Fabrikant |date=5 January 1996 |title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/05/business/the-media-business-disney-and-abc-shareholders-solidly-approve-merger-deal.html |access-date=July 8, 2013 |work=The New York Times}} Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997.{{Cite news |date=September 9, 1997 |title=Lee Enterprises closes purchase of Oregon newspapers from ABC |work=The Oregonian |pages=45}} Three years later Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. acquired the Post from Lee Enterprises in 2000.Tomlinson, Stuart (November 12, 2000). "Millionaire buys four more news operations". The Sunday Oregonian, p. B8.
In February 2004, The Sandy Profile, a rival newspaper, was merged into the Post.{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Melissa L. |date=March 25, 2004 |title=Sandy Paper Hands Over Most Tasks To The Post |work=The Oregonian |pages=B2}} In June 2024, Pamplin Media Group was sold to Carpenter Media Group.{{Cite news |last=Rogoway |first=Mike |date=June 3, 2024 |title=Pamplin Media, Portland Tribune’s owner, sells to Carpenter Media |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/06/pamplin-media-portland-tribunes-owner-sells-to-carpenter-media.html |access-date=June 8, 2024 |work=The Oregonian}} Later that year the Estacada News was absorbed into the Post.{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Steve |date=2024-08-22 |title=Help the Estacada News: Our newspaper is making big changes, but it's not too late to help |url=https://www.estacadanews.com/news/help-the-estacada-news-our-newspaper-is-making-big-changes-but-its-not-too-late/article_76c224c4-5be1-11ef-b769-c7f13166a413.html |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=Estacada News |language=en}}
Awards
In 2019, the Post won the General Excellence award for weekly newspapers from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-07-26 |title=Trio of newspapers win General Excellence awards |url=https://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/trio-of-newspapers-win-general-excellence-awards/article_13ea23b4-2c8b-5586-9be9-73b2c7984071.html |access-date=2023-04-19 |newspaper=The Outlook |location=Gresham, Oregon |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423085140/https://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/trio-of-newspapers-win-general-excellence-awards/article_13ea23b4-2c8b-5586-9be9-73b2c7984071.html |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |url-status=dead}}
References
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External links
- [https://pamplinmedia.com/sandy-post-home Sandy Post web site]
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Category:Clackamas County, Oregon
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Category:Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association
Category:Newspapers established in 1937
Category:1937 establishments in Oregon
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