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Peter Courtney, the longest-serving legislator and Senate president in Oregon history, died July 16. He was 81. He was 81. Mt. Angel Police escorted a procession after the Mass to Calvary Cemetery ...
The Statesman Journal is the major daily newspaper published in Salem, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1851 as the Oregon Statesman, it later merged with the Capital Journal to form the current newspaper, the second-oldest in Oregon. The Statesman Journal is distributed in Salem, Keizer, and portions of the mid-Willamette Valley.
The earliest newspaper in Oregon was the Oregon Spectator, published in Oregon City from 1846, by a press association headed by George Abernethy. [4] This was joined in November 1850 by the Milwaukie Western Star and two partisan papers – the Whig Oregonian, published in Portland beginning on December 4, 1850, and the Democratic Statesman ...
The Mercury, later The Sunday Mercury, was a weekly newspaper founded in Salem, Oregon in 1869, [1] and moved to Portland a few years later. [2] Oregon writer Homer Davenport described approaching the Mercury when he arrived in Portland as a young man, and being sent to New Orleans to cover and draw pictures of the Fitzsimmons-Dempsey fight.
The ragtag members of the Kennedy clan turned out Monday for the funeral of Ethel Kennedy — the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, and the last link to the family's days of "Camelot" in the White House.
The newspaper was established in February 1928 as the Hollywood Press by Abner M. Church as a community newspaper serving a portion of Oregon's capital city. The name of the newspaper was changed in December 1932 to Capital Press. [3] Church sold the paper to Dewey Rand Sr. and Henry M. Hanzen in 1946.
For questions, comments and news tips, email reporter Whitney Woodworth at wmwoodworth@statesmanjournal.com, call 503-910-6616 or follow on Twitter at @wmwoodworth
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Oregon. It includes both current and historical newspapers. Portland is the only city where such newspapers are known to have been published. [1] The first was the Portland New Age, founded as The New Age in 1896. [2]