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The ''Lincoln City News Guard'' is a newspaper serving Lincoln City and its surrounding community in the U.S. state of
Oregon Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
.


History

Its predecessor was founded in 1927 (or 1931 or 1932), and is published weekly on Wednesdays. Prior to the 1965 incorporation of Lincoln City, the paper was known as the ''North Lincoln News Guard'', and was published in the communities of Delake and Nelscott. The ''News Guard'' was formed after a merger in 1939 of the ''Coast Guard'' and the ''Beach Resort News''. The Pioneer Newspaper Group of Idaho purchased the ''News Guard'' in 1980, along with three other coastal newspapers (the ''
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's ''Pacific Tribune''). The ''News Guard'' has won a number of statewide awards, including a general excellence award for smaller weekly papers in 1969, for photography and special issues in 1980, and more recently for best feature story. In 2012 Samantha Swindler, then the publisher of the ''News Guard'' as well as the nearby ''Tillamook Headlight'', was featured on CBS "
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References

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