''The Sun'' was the newspaper for

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. The paper was published weekly on Wednesdays. ''The Sun'' served the West Yamhill Valley communities of Sheridan,

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, and Grand Ronde in Yamhill and

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counties.

History

Sheridan's newspaper was founded in 1890,The Sun.
Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved on April 20, 2014. and was a weekly newspaper. In 1908, O. D. Hamstreet purchased the newspaper after moving from

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, where he had been editor of the ''Sheridan Enterprise''. The paper stopped publishing in June 2014.

References

External links

The Sun Archives

Picture of newspaper office after 1913 fire
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