Sandy Post
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| Type | Weekly Newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Pamplin Media Group |
| Publisher | Steve Brown |
| Editor | Steve Brown |
| Founded | 1937 |
| Headquarters | 1584 NE Eighth Street Gresham, OR 97030 |
| City | Sandy, Oregon |
| Circulation | 4,209 (as of 2022)[1] |
| Website | sandypost |
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
[edit]The paper was founded in 1937.[2] It was first published by Mrs. Fern G. Lambert on January 6, 1938. Orval G. Butler purchased the Post in 1940.[3] Butler sold it in 1947 to Tom B. Purcell, publisher of the nearby Gresham Outlook.[4]
Walter C. Taylor Jr. bought the two papers, along with several others Oregon, in the early 1960s.[5] Taylor and Lee Irwin sold the newspaper in 1977 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co., which published the Albany Democrat-Herald.[6]
Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980,[7] which itself was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1995.[8] Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997.[9] Three years later Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. acquired the Post from Lee Enterprises in 2000.[10]
In February 2004, The Sandy Profile, a rival newspaper, was merged into the Post.[11] In June 2024, Pamplin Media Group was sold to Carpenter Media Group.[12] Later that year the Estacada News was absorbed into the Post.[13]
Awards
[edit]In 2019, the Post won the General Excellence award for weekly newspapers from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Pamplin Media Group: Media Kit 2022" (PDF). 2022-10-19. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
- ^ "The Sandy Post". Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
- ^ "Buys Sandy Paper". The Oregon Daily Journal. July 24, 1940. p. 10.
- ^ "Gresham Publisher Buys Sandy Paper". The Oregon Daily Journal. September 8, 1947. p. 8.
- ^ Franzen, Robin (December 21, 2006). "Longtime Northwest publisher dies at 87". The Oregonian.
- ^ "Publisher buys 4 weeklies". Statesman Journal. February 10, 1977. p. 37.
- ^ "Paper sale should be final today". Albany Democrat-Herald. July 14, 1980. p. 3.
- ^ Geraldine Fabrikant (5 January 1996). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal". The New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ^ "Lee Enterprises closes purchase of Oregon newspapers from ABC". The Oregonian. September 9, 1997. p. 45.
- ^ Tomlinson, Stuart (November 12, 2000). "Millionaire buys four more news operations". The Sunday Oregonian, p. B8.
- ^ Jones, Melissa L. (March 25, 2004). "Sandy Paper Hands Over Most Tasks To The Post". The Oregonian. pp. B2.
- ^ Rogoway, Mike (June 3, 2024). "Pamplin Media, Portland Tribune's owner, sells to Carpenter Media". The Oregonian. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Trio of newspapers win General Excellence awards". The Outlook. Gresham, Oregon. 2019-07-26. Archived from the original on April 23, 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-19.