''Boise Weekly'' is a newspaper in
Boise, Idaho
Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown area ...
, United States. It was founded in 1992 by Andy and Debi Hedden-Nicely and Larry Regan.
It is owned by
Adams Publishing Group's Western Division
and is part of ''
The Idaho Press''.
It has an unaudited circulation of 35,000 and is published weekly on Wednesday. Its market is southwestern Idaho from
McCall
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Notable people with this surname include:
* Andy McCall (footballer, born 1911) (1911–1979), Scottish footballer and manager
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on the northwest to
Sun Valley to the east.
In February 2000, the paper was sold to the
Portland, Oregon
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-based City of Roses Newspaper Company, which also owns two other
alt-weekly newspapers, ''
Willamette Week
''Willamette Week'' (''WW'') is an alternative weekly newspaper and a website published in Portland, Oregon, United States, since 1974. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business, and culture.
History
Early history
''Willame ...
'' and the ''
Santa Fe Reporter'',
but only a year and a half later, in August 2001, City of Roses sold the ''Boise Weekly'' to Mark ("Bingo") Barnes and Sally Barnes
(''nee'' Freeman). Bingo Barnes became its publisher and editor-in-chief.
The Barneses were married, but they later divorced and Sally Barnes resumed using her unmarried name of Sally Freeman. In 2007, Bingo Barnes left to become publisher of the ''
Anchorage Press'' and in 2013 became the editor of Kuna Melba News in Kuna, Idaho. Freeman became full owner of the ''Boise Weekly'', also remaining its publisher.
See also
*
Media in Boise, Idaho
References
External links
*
Newspapers published in Idaho
Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States
Publications established in 1992
Mass media in Boise, Idaho
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