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The Umpqua Post was a weekly newspaper serving Reedsport, Oregon, United States and the surrounding area in Douglas and Coos counties from 1996 to 2020. It was published each Wednesday by The World newspaper in Coos Bay. The paper was distributed in Reedsport and nearby Gardiner, Scottsburg, Elkton, Winchester Bay and Coos Bay.
Reedsport is at the junction of Oregon Route 38 and U.S. Route 101, 3 miles (5 km) north of Winchester Bay and 54 miles (87 km) northwest of Roseburg.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.31 square miles (5.98 km 2), of which, 2.05 square miles (5.31 km 2) is land and 0.26 square miles (0.67 km 2) is water.
Southwestern Oregon Publishing Company purchased the Bandon Western World in 2003 [5] and the Reedsport Umpqua Post in 2004. [6] In January 2015, The World launched a new weekly newspaper, the Coquille Valley Courant, which serves the Coquille Valley area, including Coquille, Myrtle Point, Powers and surrounding towns. [7]
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 ...
An Oregon weekly newspaper that had to lay off its entire staff after its funds were embezzled by a former employee will relaunch its print edition next month, its editor said, a move made ...
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In January 2020, Country Media acquired daily newspaper The World in Coos Bay, as well as the weekly newspapers Western World in Bandon and The Umpqua Post in Reedsport from Southwest Oregon Publishing Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lee Enterprises. [22]
One of Oregon’s oldest operating newspapers will shut down by the end of the week. The Mail Tribune publisher and CEO Steven Saslow on Wednesday announced the newspaper’s abrupt closure on its ...