| You think you know. To be sure, read Keizertimes | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Wheatland Publishing Corp. |
| Founder(s) | John Ettinger |
| Publisher | Lyndon Zaitz |
| Editor | Eric A. Howald |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 142 Chemawa Road N. Keizer, OR 97303 |
| Circulation | 1,738 [1] |
| ISSN | 2997-2604 |
| OCLC number | 28445028 |
| Website | keizertimes |
The Keizertimes is a weekly community newspaper based in Keizer, Oregon, United States, published every Friday, and has a distribution through both the mail and newsstands. [2]
The Keizer News was a newspaper published by Clarence Zaitz in the 1960s. The paper shuttered in the early 1970s after Zaitz failed to find a buyer and his son Les Zaitz opted to work as a reporter for The Oregonian instead. [3]
John Ettinger moved to Keizer in the late 1970s and was encouraged by local merchants to launch his own newspaper. [4] The first issue of the Keizertimes was published on Oct. 3, 1979. [5] The paper was originally sent to people's residences twice a month for free but in 1982 it transitioned into a weekly paid-subscription model. [4]
Ettinger sold the newspaper in 1987 to Les Zaitz and Scotta Callister. [3] The couple launched the South Salem Times a year later, but it folded in 1990. They also launched the Salem Times, a free newspaper mailed to 40,000 homes, in 1994. [6] It ceased after two years. [7]
In 2004, the Keizertimes' office caught fire and sustained major damage. Arson was suspected. [8]
In 1988, the Keizertimes won a first place award for best news story from a small weekly newspaper from the National Newspaper Association. The story was on the death of an elderly pedestrian. [9] In 2000, the paper's publisher Les Zaitz was given the First Citizen Award by the Keizer Chamber of Commerce. [10]