# Sandy Post

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{{short description|Weekly newspaper published in Sandy, Oregon}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name              = Sandy Post
| image             = Sandy Post front page.jpg
| caption           =
| type              = [Weekly Newspaper](/source/Weekly_Newspaper)
| format            = [Tabloid](/source/Tabloid_journalism)
| founded           = {{Start date|1937}}
| owners            = [Pamplin Media Group](/source/Pamplin_Media_Group)
| publisher         = Steve Brown
| editor            = Steve Brown
| circulation       = 4,209
| circulation_date  = 2022
| circulation_ref   = <ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-19 |title=Pamplin Media Group: Media Kit 2022 |url=https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/portlandtribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/d3/1d3da40a-5099-11ed-8c18-6797ea52fec9/63517f7ec4dd5.pdf.pdf |access-date=2023-04-18 |archive-date=2023-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419050310/https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/portlandtribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/d3/1d3da40a-5099-11ed-8c18-6797ea52fec9/63517f7ec4dd5.pdf.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| publishing_city   = [Sandy, Oregon](/source/Sandy%2C_Oregon)
| headquarters      = 1584 NE Eighth Street<br />Gresham, OR 97030
| oclc              = 
| sister_newspapers = ''Estacada News''<br/>
''[Gresham Outlook](/source/Gresham_Outlook)''
| ISSN              = 
| website           = {{URL|sandypost.com}} 
}}

The '''''Sandy Post''''' is an [online newspaper](/source/online_newspaper) and former printed [newspaper](/source/newspaper) in [Oregon](/source/Oregon) serving [Sandy](/source/Sandy%2C_Oregon), the [Villages at Mount Hood](/source/Villages_at_Mount_Hood%2C_Oregon) and the surrounding areas. It is owned by [Pamplin Media Group](/source/Pamplin_Media_Group).

== History ==
The paper was founded in 1937.<ref name="onpa">{{cite web |title=The Sandy Post |url=http://www.orenews.com/sandy |access-date=November 25, 2014 |publisher=[Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association](/source/Oregon_Newspaper_Publishers_Association)}}</ref> It was first published by Mrs. Fern G. Lambert on January 6, 1938. Orval G. Butler purchased the ''Post'' in 1940.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 24, 1940 |title=Buys Sandy Paper |work=The Oregon Daily Journal |pages=10}}</ref> Butler sold it in 1947 to Tom B. Purcell, publisher of the nearby ''[Gresham Outlook](/source/Gresham_Outlook).''<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 8, 1947 |title=Gresham Publisher Buys Sandy Paper |work=The Oregon Daily Journal |pages=8}}</ref>

Walter C. Taylor Jr. bought the two papers, along with several others Oregon, in the early 1960s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Longtime Northwest publisher dies at 87 |date=December 21, 2006 | work=The Oregonian |first=Robin |last=Franzen}}</ref> Taylor and Lee Irwin sold the newspaper in 1977 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co., which published the ''[Albany Democrat-Herald](/source/Albany_Democrat-Herald)''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 10, 1977 |title=Publisher buys 4 weeklies |work=Statesman Journal |pages=37}}</ref>

[Capital Cities](/source/Capital_Cities_Communications) purchased the company in 1980,<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 14, 1980 |title=Paper sale should be final today |work=Albany Democrat-Herald |pages=3}}</ref> which itself was acquired by [The Walt Disney Company](/source/The_Walt_Disney_Company) in 1995.<ref name="Disney acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC Inc.">{{cite news |author=Geraldine Fabrikant |date=5 January 1996 |title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/05/business/the-media-business-disney-and-abc-shareholders-solidly-approve-merger-deal.html |access-date=July 8, 2013 |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)}}</ref> Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to [Lee Enterprises](/source/Lee_Enterprises) in 1997.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 9, 1997 |title=Lee Enterprises closes purchase of Oregon newspapers from ABC |work=The Oregonian |pages=45}}</ref> Three years later [Robert B. Pamplin, Jr.](/source/Robert_B._Pamplin%2C_Jr.) acquired the ''Post'' from Lee Enterprises in 2000.<ref name="millionaire">Tomlinson, Stuart (November 12, 2000). "Millionaire buys four more news operations". ''[The Sunday Oregonian](/source/The_Oregonian)'', p. B8.</ref> In February 2004, ''The Sandy Profile,'' a rival newspaper, was merged into the ''Post''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Melissa L. |date=March 25, 2004 |title=Sandy Paper Hands Over Most Tasks To The Post |work=The Oregonian |pages=B2}}</ref>

In June 2024, [Pamplin Media Group](/source/Pamplin_Media_Group) was sold to Carpenter Media Group.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Rogoway |first=Mike |date=June 3, 2024 |title=Pamplin Media, Portland Tribune's owner, sells to Carpenter Media |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/06/pamplin-media-portland-tribunes-owner-sells-to-carpenter-media.html |access-date=June 8, 2024 |work=The Oregonian}}</ref> Later that year the ''Estacada News'' was absorbed into the ''Post''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Steve |date=2024-08-22 |title=Help the Estacada News: Our newspaper is making big changes, but it's not too late to help |url=https://www.estacadanews.com/news/help-the-estacada-news-our-newspaper-is-making-big-changes-but-its-not-too-late/article_76c224c4-5be1-11ef-b769-c7f13166a413.html |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=Estacada News |language=en}}</ref> In July 2025, the paper's only reporter was laid off. At that time the ''Post'' ceased and subscribers from now on will receive ''[The Gresham Outlook](/source/The_Gresham_Outlook)'' instead. The websites for the ''Post'' and ''Estacada News'' will remain online.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sparling |first=Zane |date=2025-07-25 |title=Carpenter Media axes 2 more newspapers in Clackamas County |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2025/07/carpenter-media-axes-2-more-newspapers-in-clackamas-county.html |access-date=2025-07-25 |website=The Oregonian |language=en}}</ref>

== Awards ==
In 2019, the ''Post'' won the General Excellence award for weekly newspapers from the [Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association](/source/Oregon_Newspaper_Publishers_Association).<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-07-26 |title=Trio of newspapers win General Excellence awards |url=https://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/trio-of-newspapers-win-general-excellence-awards/article_13ea23b4-2c8b-5586-9be9-73b2c7984071.html |access-date=2023-04-19 |newspaper=[The Outlook](/source/The_Outlook_(Gresham)) |location=Gresham, Oregon |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423085140/https://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/trio-of-newspapers-win-general-excellence-awards/article_13ea23b4-2c8b-5586-9be9-73b2c7984071.html |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://pamplinmedia.com/sandy-post-home ''Sandy Post'' web site]

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