Cottage Grove Sentinel

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Cottage Grove Sentinel
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s) Country Media, Inc. (2023–)
PublisherJoe Warren
EditorJoe Warren
Founded1889
Headquarters1498 E. Main St. Suite 104, Cottage Grove, OR
Circulation 2,829
Website cgsentinel.com

The Cottage Grove Sentinel is a weekly newspaper serving the city of Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States. It was established in 1889 and is published on Wednesdays with a circulation of 2,829. [1]

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History

The earliest newspaper in Cottage Grove was the Cottage Grove Leader (1889–1895), which was first published in Drain, Oregon using a military style press by E.P. Thorp. After several editions, operations moved to Cottage Grove, Oregon where the masthead and logo was rebranded the "Cottage Grove Echo=Leader" as it continued to provide news for the growing village.

On November 30, 1895, during the height of a town feud, when the western side of town briefly changed their name to Lemati, the newspaper adopted both of the names Cottage Grove and Lemati Echo Leader for a single run. Only one edition was printed after a two-and-a-half-month absence from the publication of the Echo=Leader. When publication resumed, the Cottage Grove and Lemati Echo=Leader shortened its name, and was stylized only as The Leader. It ran under this name from 1895 through 1915.

While the city was still divided, another competitive newspaper published by Horace Mann came to town called the Cottage Grove Messenger. He sold the publication that year to C.J. Howard, who was a Dorena, Oregon resident and postmaster. Under Howard's ownership, the Cottage Grove Messenger was renamed the Bohemia Nugget.

Mining camps at one point outnumbered the population of Cottage Grove, and a newly christened Bohemia Nugget, which ran from 1899 to 1907 helped them stay in touch with news, politics, and events.

Behind the scenes, it was scarcely known that both of the newspapers were secretly financed and managed by a single miner, promoter, and publisher, F. J. Hard, who began operating the weekly publications for the miners and families out at the Bohemia Mountain camps and the residents of Cottage Grove.

The Western Oregon lasted from 1905 to 1909, until Lew A. Cates, a "live wire" publisher out of the Midwest, traveled to Oregon seeking to purchase either the Tillamook Headlight on the coast or the Western Oregon in the valley. Cates took a chance with Cottage Grove in the Willamette valley and with the Western Oregon newspaper, Cates purchased it and rebranded it, The Cottage Grove Sentinel. The old Leader newspaper continued as well, until it was eventually absorbed by The Sentinel in 1915.

The Cottage Grove Sentinel was established in September 1909 and has been in continuous operation since, serving Cottage Grove, Creswell, Pleasant Hill, Saginaw, Drain, Lorane, Yoncalla, and Elkton. [2]

In 1939, the paper was sold to W. C. Martin. His family operated the paper until selling it in 1961 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co., which published the Albany Democrat-Herald . [3] Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980, [4] which itself was acquired by the The Walt Disney Company in 1995. [5] Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997. [6] Lee sold the Cottage Grove Sentinel to News Media Corporation in 2006, [7] who in turn sold it to Country Media, Inc. in 2023 [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cottage Grove Sentinel". Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 2009-04-04. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
  2. ↑ "About the Bohemia Nugget". Cottage Grove Sentinel. July 14, 2010. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
  3. ↑ "Paper Purchased at Cottage Grove". Albany Democrat-Herald. September 8, 1961. p. 1.
  4. ↑ "Paper sale should be final today". Albany Democrat-Herald. July 14, 1980. p. 3.
  5. ↑ Geraldine Fabrikant (5 January 1996). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal". The New York Times . Retrieved July 8, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Lee Enterprises closes purchase of Oregon newspapers from ABC". The Oregonian. September 9, 1997. p. 45.
  7. ↑ Moran, Jack (October 25, 2006). "Cottage Grove Newspaper Sold". Eugene Register-Guard . Retrieved 2011-02-20.
  8. ↑ "News Media Corporation sells Oregon cluster to Country Media, Inc". Editor and Publisher . September 5, 2023. Archived from the original on September 6, 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
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