| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Pamplin Media Group (since 2000) |
| Publisher | Nikki DeBuse |
| Editor | Lauren Bishop |
| Founded | 1921 |
| Headquarters | 6605 S.E. Lake Road Portland,OR 97222-2161  United States |
| City | Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. |
| Circulation | 8,597 (as of 2022)[1] |
| Sister newspapers | Forest Grove News-Times |
| OCLC number | 36326468 |
| Website | beavertonvalleytimes |
TheBeaverton Valley Times, also known as theValley Times, is a weekly newspaper covering the city ofBeaverton, Oregon,United States, and adjacentunincorporated areas in the northern part of theTualatin Valley. Owned since 2000 by thePamplin Media Group, the paper was established in 1921.[2] Currently based in neighboringPortland, theValley Times is printed each Thursday.[2]
What is today theBeaverton Valley Times was established in 1951 asThe Valley News,[3] with the consolidation of four local newspapers, theAloha News,Beaverton Enterprise,Multnomah Press, andTigard Sentinel. However, the paper's owners have long used 1921 as the date of foundation, based on that being the year in which the owner of the four papers, H. H. Jeffries, acquired theMultnomah Press.[3] Jeffries launched theSentinel in 1924 and theAloha News andBeaverton Enterprise in 1927. He later sold the group of four papers to Stan Netherton. Meanwhile, another newspaper being published separately in the area was theBeaverton Review, which was launched in 1922, but ceased publication in 1941.[3]
The four jointly owned newspapers were consolidated into a single paper,The Valley News, after Netherton sold them to Ivan Smith and H.D. and Dan Powell, in early 1951. Not long afterward, in late 1951, theValley News was sold to Hugh McGilvra and Elbert Hawkins, with George Hoyt joining them later as co-owner. In 1951, the paper had fewer than 2,000 paid subscribers and averaged 12–16 pages per issue.[3]
On September 6, 1962,The Valley News was renamedThe Valley Times (OCLC number 30759134). By that time, theTigard Times, which had begun publication in February 1957 (as a weekly, subscription paper), and theWashington County News-Times ofForest Grove were affiliated or jointly owned, and the renaming of theValley News as theTimes was intended to publicize that relationship.[3] The publishing company's name at that time was Valley Publishing, Inc. Circulation surpassed 10,000 in 1967.[3]
Publisher Hugh Edward McGilvra sold the newspaper in 1981 to the owners of Eugene'sRegister-Guard.[4] In January 1989, "Beaverton" was added to the paper's name, making itThe Beaverton Valley Times. In 1989, the paper's circulation was in excess of 8,000.[5]
The paper won a first-place prize for its size category in 1992 for general excellence from theOregon Newspaper Publishers Association.[6] In 1996, along with five other area newspapers, theValley Times was sold to Steve and Randalyn Clark.[7] In 1997, the paper took first place in its division at the annual Better Newspaper Contest of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.[8] In July 2000, theValley Times was honored by the same organization for excellence.[9] Community Newspapers Inc. sold the newspaper along with several others in thePortland metropolitan area toPamplin Media Group in August 2000.[10][11]
By 2003, the paper began printing announcements for same-sex couples' commitment ceremonies.[12] In 2005, it was the largest weekly newspaper inOregon.[13]The Oregonian announced plans to launch a competing paper, theBeaverton Leader, in March 2013.[14][15] TheLeader ceased publication in 2016.[16]
Effective with the edition of February 8, 2018, the print edition of theBeaverton Valley Times was combined with those of two other Pamplin papers, the weeklyThe Times (also known as theTigard Times, and covering bothTigard andTualatin) and the monthlySherwood Gazette, published on Thursdays and named simplyThe Times. The paper now covers Beaverton, Tigard, Tualatin, andSherwood. The three papers had already been sharing some content. The new title is used for print copies delivered to subscribers, whilenewspaper racks/boxes carry a slightly different, zoned edition ofThe Times, namedThe Washington County Times, that was introduced when the papers were merged.[17] In 2021, Pamplin revived the use of theBeaverton Valley Times and theSherwood Gazette titles in some print editions, but in July 2024, theSherwood Gazette was again merged intoThe Times, its print edition discontinued.[18]
In 1914, the BeavertonOwl changed its name to theTimes.[19] It continued under that title until at least 1922.[20][21][22]