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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Pamplin Media Group |
| Editor | John Baker |
| General manager | Sandy Storey |
| Founded | 1906 (asCanby Herald) |
| City | Canby, Oregon |
| Country |  United States |
| Circulation | 5,254 (as of 2022)[1] |
| Sister newspapers | Oregon City News,West Linn Tidings,Woodburn Independent |
| OCLC number | 30710695 |
| Website | Canbycanbyherald |
The Herald-Pioneer is a weekly newspaper published inCanby,Oregon, United States. It dates back to 1906 and is owned byPamplin Media Group.[2] The paper also serves the cities ofAurora andMolalla.The Herald-Pioneer was formed in 2020 through the merger of theCanby Herald and Molalla Pioneer.
TheCanby Herald dates back to 1906.[3] In 1915, G.E. Brookins sold theHubbard Enterprise to then purchase theCanby Herald.[4] A year later Brookins leased his Canby printing plant and moved to Eugene to study journalism at theUniversity of Oregon.[5] TheClackamas County News was then started in Canby with B. E. Lee as publisher and M. J. Lee as editor.[6] W. E. Hassler was publisher of theNews for about two years until severing his ties in January 1922. He sold theNews to M.J. Lee, now editor and publisher, who renamed it to theCanby Herald.[7][8] A month later Lee sold the paper to A.W. Bond.[9] In June 1923, theHerald was acquired by W.C. Culbertson.[10] Henry E. Browne worked as theCanby Herald's publisher for 15 years and became its owner at some point. He sold it to Elbert Floyd Hall and Esther May Hall in 1937.[11] A decade later the couple sold the paper to William Weston.[12] In 1972, Weston and his wife merged their company withEagle Newspapers.[13][14]
TheMolalla Pioneer was first published on March 28, 1913,[15] and was founded by Gordon J. Taylor. In 1930, he and his son Walter R. Taylor sold the paper to J. Vila Blake.[16] A year later Blake sold theMolalla Pioneer to C. L. Ireland,[17] who owned the paper for 15 years until selling it in January 1946 to Monroe Sweetland.[18][19] In 1948, Sweetland sold the paper to Charles N. Burger,[20] who then sold it again two years later to Howard Durfee and Earl C. Brannan.[21] In 1952, Durfee sold the paper to Paul F. Ruud.[22] Ruud ran theMolalla Pioneer for close to two decades until Pioneer Publishing, Inc. acquired the paper from him in 1971.[23] Three years later the company sold it to Rodger Eddy, owner ofNorth Willamette News.[24] Two years later Eddy merged his company withEagle Newspapers in 1976.[25]
Eagle owned theCanby Herald andMolalla Pioneer for nearly four decades until selling them along with three other newspapers in January 2013 toPamplin Media Group.[26][27] Pamplin sold the two paper's shared office in August 2019 and moved them to a smaller space.[28] In January 2020, the company announced both paper's print editions were to be merged under the titleThe Herald-Pioneer while continuing to maintain separate websites and social media accounts.[29] In June 2024,Robert B. Pamplin Jr. sold his newspaper company to Carpenter Media Group.[30]