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The News-Review is a five-day-a-week community newspaper published in Roseburg, Oregon, United States. The circulation area covers all of Douglas County including Canyonville , Glide , Myrtle Creek , Oakland , Roseburg, Sutherlin , and Winston .
Plimpton was born and raised in Roseburg, Oregon, [2] to an Episcopalian family. [3] Her father, William Sherman Plimpton, a native of Portland and graduate of the University of Washington, operated an auto parts store in Roseburg, [4] while her mother worked as a medical researcher. [3]
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 Douglas County News was a weekly newspaper serving Douglas County, Oregon, United States, including the cities of Roseburg, Sutherlin, Winston, and Reedsport. [1]
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Kenneth W. Ford (August 4, 1908 – February 8, 1997) was an American businessman and lumber mill owner from Asotin, Washington, who founded Roseburg Forest Products in 1936. In 2017, his family was the 12th largest private landowners in the United States owning 783,000 acres in the Pacific Northwest, North Carolina and Virginia.
In 1990, Dewey Rand Jr. sold the newspaper to the East Oregonian Publishing Company. [ 4 ] Bill Duncan published a column from 1981 until his death in 2011; the News Review of Roseburg, Oregon deems it "still pertinent" and is republishing it as of 2018.
Carl returned to his native Oregon, where he and his wife Edna settled near Roseburg. Marion Carl's memoir, Pushing the Envelope, coauthored with his friend Barrett Tillman, was published in 1994. [5] In 1998, at age 82, he was shot to death during a robbery, defending Edna from a home invader. [6]