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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Pamplin Media Group |
Publisher | Al Herriges |
Editor | Justin Much |
Sports editor | Tanner Russ |
Staff writers | 2 |
Founded | 1888 [1] |
Language | English |
Headquarters | 1585 N. Pacific Hwy., Suite H Woodburn, Oregon 97071 United States |
Circulation | 5,254(as of 2022) [2] |
OCLC number | 11702956 |
Website | woodburnindependent |
The Woodburn Independent is a weekly paper published in Woodburn, Oregon, United States, and also covering the cities of Hubbard, Aurora, Donald, Gervais, St. Paul and Mt. Angel, and the surrounding area of Marion County. [3] The Independent was founded in 1888. [1] It is published on Wednesdays by Pamplin Media Group. [1]
The paper was established by Leonard H. McMahan on December 1, 1888. [4] [5] According to the newspaper's staff, the paper preceded the incorporation of Woodburn by about nine months and initially read more like a gossip sheet than a news source. [5] McMahan went on to become a member of the Oregon House of Representatives during the 1923 Legislature, and a Marion County Circuit Judge from 1924 to 1943. [4]
In 1921, Herbert L. Gill and his son Wayne B. Gill became co-owners of the paper. [6] Gill sold his stake to Rodney W. Alden in 1930. [7] Alden sold out to Mabel Grass in August 1944, [8] and who then acquired full ownership in October 1946. [6] She sold the paper to Edward C. Conman and Eugene F. Stoller in August 1947. [9] Eagle Newspapers acquired the paper from Stoller in 1971. [10] [11] About forty years later the company sold the paper along with five others in January 2013 to Pamplin Media Group. [12] [13] Robert B. Pamplin Jr. sold the company in June 2024 to Carpenter Media Group. [14]
The Independent sued the city of Salem when the city denied access to records of a 2017 arrest for child abuse. The newspaper lost the initial case, but won on appeal in September 2018. [15]