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Portion of Umpqua County which lay east of the Coast Range summit: Named for senator Stephen A. Douglas, a supporter of Oregon's admission to the union. 112,435: 5,037 sq mi (13,046 km 2) Gilliam County: 021: Condon: 1885: Eastern third of Wasco County: Named for Oregon pioneer Cornelius Gilliam (1798–1848). 2,026: 1,204 sq mi (3,118 km 2 ...
Lincoln City News Guard: Lincoln City: 1937 2024 Merged with Newport News-Times: Newport News-Times: Newport: 1882 2024 Merged with Lincoln City News Guard: Mail Tribune: Medford: April 2, 1907 January 13, 2023 McMinnville Reporter: McMinnville: 1870 [6] Metropolis Herald: Portland: circa 1855 [6] Mid-county Memo: Portland: May 1985 January ...
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is the primary television, radio and digital public broadcasting network for most of the U.S. state of Oregon as well as southern Washington. OPB consists of five full-power television stations , dozens of VHF or UHF translators , and over 20 radio stations and frequencies.
The three men also owned equal shares in KGAL in Lebanon, Oregon. [10] Stadler was the sole owner of KEED and KEED-FM in the Springfield-Eugene, Oregon, area. [ 10 ] By the end of the 1960s, KGAY, Inc., was wholly owned by Glen Stadler and his wife, Helen N. Stadler, who also served as vice president of the company.
Oregon (/ ˈ ɒr ɪ ɡ ən,-ɡ ɒ n / ⓘ ORR-ih-ghən, -gon) [7] [8] is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho.
Oregon Country was the American name, while the British used Columbia District for the region. [1] British and French Canadian fur traders had entered Oregon Country prior to 1810 before the arrival of American settlers from the mid-1830s onwards, which led to the foundation of the Provisional Government of Oregon.
In 2019, the Source Weekly partnered with local crowd funding service What If We Could, to create the Central Oregon Gives Campaign, [6] a fundraising campaign for nonprofits. In September 2020, The Straits Times reported that the Source Weekly was participating in World News Day, a day highlighting the work of professional news outlets. [7]
Benton County was created on December 23, 1847, by an act of the Provisional Government of Oregon. [3] The county was named after Democratic Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, an advocate of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the belief that the American government should control the whole of the Oregon Country.