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.

Sandy Post
TypeWeekly Newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Pamplin Media Group
PublisherSteve Brown
EditorSteve Brown
Founded1937 (1937)
Headquarters1584 NE Eighth Street
Gresham, OR 97030
CitySandy, Oregon
Circulation4,209 (as of 2022)[1]
Websitesandypost.com

History

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The paper was founded in 1937.[2] Walter C. Taylor Jr. bought the Sandy Post, along with the nearby Gresham Outlook and several other Oregon papers, in the early 1960s.[3] Taylor and Lee Irwin sold the newspaper in 1977 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co., which published the Albany Democrat-Herald.[4]

Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980,[5] which itself was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1995.[6] Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997.[7] Three years later Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. acquired the Post from Lee Enterprises in 2000.[8]

In 2024, the Estacada News was absorbed into the Post.[9]

Awards

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In 2019 the Post won the General Excellence award for weekly newspapers from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Pamplin Media Group: Media Kit 2022" (PDF). 2022-10-19. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  2. ^ "The Sandy Post". Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  3. ^ Franzen, Robin (December 21, 2006). "Longtime Northwest publisher dies at 87". The Oregonian.
  4. ^ "Publisher buys 4 weeklies". Statesman Journal. February 10, 1977. p. 37.
  5. ^ "Paper sale should be final today". Albany Democrat-Herald. July 14, 1980. p. 3.
  6. ^ Geraldine Fabrikant (5 January 1996). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal". The New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
  7. ^ "Lee Enterprises closes purchase of Oregon newspapers from ABC". The Oregonian. September 9, 1997. p. 45.
  8. ^ Tomlinson, Stuart (November 12, 2000). "Millionaire buys four more news operations". The Sunday Oregonian, p. B8.
  9. ^ Brown, Steve (2024-08-22). "Help the Estacada News: Our newspaper is making big changes, but it's not too late to help". Estacada News. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  10. ^ "Trio of newspapers win General Excellence awards". TheOutlookOnline.com. 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
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