The ''Port Orford News'' is a
weekly newspaper
A weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly new ...
[https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/weekly-newspapers-sold-in-the-second-half-of-2006/ ] published in
Port Orford
Port Orford (Tolowa: tr’ee-ghi~’- ’an’ ) is a city in Curry County on the southern coast of Oregon, United States. The population was 1,133 at the 2010 census.
The city takes its name from George Vancouver's original name for nearby Ca ...
on the
coast
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of the U.S. state of
Oregon
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since 1926.
History
Established by George W. Soranson in 1926, the ''News'' has been credited with promoting the development of Port Orford.
In 2005 Matt Hall, co-owner and editor of the ''News'', went to New Orleans to help with
Hurricane Katrina
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relief efforts. Portland-based Beacon Communication bought the ''News'' in 2006 from the Halls, who had owned it since 2003. By 2013, the Halls were again the owners; in that year, the couple also bought the
Myrtle Point ''Herald'', and were also considering purchasing the
Coquille ''Sentinel''.
Archive
The
University of Oregon
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Library has archives of the ''News''.
Current issues of the newspaper are available online at portorfordnews.net.
References
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External links
* https://books.google.com/books?id=5HfvIwIOIa4C&dq=%22Port+Orford+News%22&pg=PA51
* https://www.thefreelibrary.com/News+People.-a0174296821
* https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn00063602/ and https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn00063600/
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Newspapers published in Oregon
Port Orford, Oregon
1926 establishments in Oregon
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