The ''Sandy Post'' is a weekly

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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. It was first published by Mrs. Fern G. Lambert on January 6, 1938. Orval G. Butler purchased the ''Post'' in 1940. Butler sold it in 1947 to Tom B. Purcell, publisher of the nearby '' Gresham Outlook.'' Walter C. Taylor Jr. bought the two papers, along with several others Oregon, in the early 1960s. Taylor and Lee Irwin sold the newspaper in 1977 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co., which published the ''

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''. Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980, which itself was acquired by

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in 1995. Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to

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in 1997. 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''. In June 2024, Pamplin Media Group was sold to Carpenter Media Group. Later that year the ''Estacada News'' was absorbed into the ''Post''.

Awards

In 2019, the ''Post'' won the General Excellence award for weekly newspapers from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.

References

External links

''Sandy Post'' web site
Clackamas County, Oregon Newspapers published by Pamplin Media Group Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Newspapers established in 1937 1937 establishments in Oregon {{Authority control