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23-697: The Review was owned by Walter Woodward, along with the North Kitsap News , from about 1940 to 1962, when former Albany Democrat-Herald editor David Averill purchased them both. Woodward was to remain as editor of the Review ; the News was to be discontinued. Verda Averill sold the Herald and the Review , as well as the Kitsap Advertiser , to Black Press in 1988, which owned seven U.S. papers and 24 Canadian papers at

46-454: A contemporary interpretive Park Ranger . Steel publicized Crater Lake by hosting the Mazamas convention and mountain climbing tour in 1896. Hundreds of people, including politicians, scientists and climbers, spent three weeks in the area. At the close of the convention, fireworks were lit on Wizard Island , and the group ceremoniously christened the volcano that once stood where the lake is, which

69-577: A new publisher, Fred Nutting, who placed his mark on the broadsheet with a new title, the Albany Weekly Democrat. This name remained in place for six years, until the 1888 move of the paper from a weekly to a daily publication schedule, with the paper becoming the Albany Democrat effective with the change. In 1879, a rival Republican newspaper was launched in Albany by William Gladstone Steel ,

92-665: Is a daily newspaper published in Albany, Oregon , United States. The paper is owned by the Iowa-based Lee Enterprises , a firm which also owns the daily Corvallis Gazette-Times , published in the adjacent market of Corvallis, Oregon , as well as two weeklies, the Lebanon Express and the Philomath Express. The two daily papers publish a joint Sunday edition, called Mid-Valley Sunday. The Democrat-Herald covers

115-584: The Corvallis Gazette-Times , located approximately 10 miles away. Having always been an afternoon newspaper on weekdays with a delivery deadline of 5:30 P.M., on October 4, 2010, it became a morning paper every day with a deadline of 6:30 A.M. on weekdays and 7:00 A.M. on weekends. As of 2016, the Democrat-Herald has a daily circulation of about 7,500. The combined Sunday edition has a circulation of approximately 8,000. Starting June 27, 2023,

138-453: The Albany Herald. The dual partisan newspapers battled for market share for nearly half a century until on February 24, 1925, the dominant Albany Democrat absorbed its younger rival. For about six weeks the title Albany Democrat & Albany Herald was clumsily used, with a change made to the current moniker, Albany Democrat-Herald, in the middle of April 1925. The Democrat-Herald

161-452: The Klamath people had called giiwas for 10,000 years, calling it Mount Mazama . Steel's lobbying led to the designation of Crater Lake National Park as the sixth US National Park. He was not the first superintendent of the park, but did manage to get the first superintendent ousted in what was known as the "Crater Lake Rumble". Steel believed it was important to develop the lake to bring

184-500: The Review . Woodward died in 2001, at the age of 91. Shortly after his death, the Asian American Journalists Association posthumously awarded him and his wife with a Special Recognition Award for their work during World War 2 and the internment. A Bainbridge Island school, Woodward Middle School , is named in honor of Milly Woodward. Albany Democrat-Herald The Albany Democrat-Herald

207-743: The United States Congress to designate Crater Lake as a National Park . Steel was from Ohio , and worked in the newspaper business before becoming a mail carrier . William Steel was born on September 7, 1854, in Stafford, Ohio , to Elizabeth Lawrie and William Steel, Scottish -born abolitionists who were active in the Underground Railroad . Steel's brother, George A. Steel , became Oregon State Treasurer . His sister, Jane, attended St. Mary's School in Medford, Oregon . On March 25, 1868

230-560: The Republican keepers of the postal system and on April 30, 1862, the paper was banned from the US Mail for its political line. Editor Malone attempted to avoid the postal ban with a remade publication called the Albany Inquirer, but that paper was likewise banned from the mails, thereby effectively terminating the publication. It was not until the summer of 1865 that a Democratic newspaper

253-626: The Steel family moved from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a farm near Oswego, Kansas . While a schoolboy in Kansas, in May 1870, Steel read an article, in the newspaper wrapping his lunch, about the discovery of Crater Lake. Steel first visited Crater Lake in 1885, traveling by railroad and then stagecoach to Fort Klamath . He then walked 20 miles (32 km), arriving at the lake on August 15, 1885. Steel published an article describing his reactions as he viewed

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276-479: The Western Stamp Collector Newspaper in 1976, along with four weekly papers in 1977 ( Gresham Outlook , Sandy Post , Newport News Times and Lincoln County Leader ). The Democrat-Herald moved from individual to corporate ownership when media giant Capital Cities purchased 25% of Democrat-Herald Publishing Co. sometime in the late 1970s. The company acquired the remaining 75% from

299-470: The cities of Albany, Lebanon , and Sweet Home , Oregon, as well as the towns of Jefferson , Halsey , Tangent , Harrisburg , Brownsville , and Shedd . The first newspaper published in Albany, Oregon , county seat of Linn County , was the Oregon Democrat , launched by US Senator Delazon Smith on November 1, 1859. A dedicated supporter of the pro-slavery Democratic Party , Smith's publication

322-515: The day after the Attack on Pearl Harbor . Bainbridge islanders of Japanese ancestry were the first in the United States to be relocated to internment camps . On Bainbridge Island alone, 227 Japanese civilians were incarcerated without charge. The Woodwards continued advocating for members of the community, and hired several as correspondents. These correspondents reported on camp events for publication in

345-544: The heirs of Glenn Jackson after he died in 1980. So-called CapCities would purchase the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1985, only to themselves be acquired in 1996 by the Walt Disney Company . Disney immediately began to divest itself of the newspapers acquired in the merger, with the Democrat-Herald sold to Lee Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa in 1998 — a media company which already owned

368-624: The lake for the first time in the March 1886 issue of West Shore magazine. Steel was a member of the Portland Alpine Club, the first alpine club in the West, and then helped found Mazamas after the Portland Alpine Club folded. Steel guided influential people around the Crater Lake area, leading nature hikes and giving campfire lectures about the lake's geography, plants and animals, much like

391-433: The print edition of the Democrat-Herald will be reduced to three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Also, the newspaper will transition from being delivered by a traditional newspaper delivery carrier to mail delivery by the U.S. Postal Service. William Gladstone Steel William Gladstone Steel (September 7, 1854 – October 21, 1934) was an American journalist who was known for campaigning for 17 years for

414-445: The public to the lake, including selling the idea of a lodge and an encircling road at the crater's rim, but he also envisioned an elevator to take people to the lake's surface, and roads around the lake itself and to Wizard Island for cars. After three years, Steel was removed as superintendent of the park. Steel became known as "The Judge", and the "father of Crater Lake", described as a "one-man chamber of commerce". He last visited

437-527: The time. The Woodwards purchased the Review in 1940. Woodward and his wife, Mildred Woodward, reported on the Japanese internment as it transpired, and were among the few who publicly opposed it, as well as the only English-language newspaper on the West Coast to openly criticize it. Woodward and his wife warned about "the danger of a blind, wild hysterical hatred of all persons who can trace ancestry to Japan ",

460-532: Was able to be reestablished in Albany. This was a weekly called the State Rights Democrat, launched on August 1, 1865, by publisher James O'Meara. It is this publication — issued continuously from 1865 into the 21st Century — to which the Albany Democrat-Herald itself traces its roots. The State Rights Democrat existed as a weekly publication for 17 years, until the paper was sold in 1882 to

483-654: Was largely devoted to fierce partisan polemics with the editor of the rival Republican publication, the Oregon Statesman , published by the indefatigable Asahel Bush in the nearby city of Salem . Founding publisher Smith died in November 1860, on the eve of the American Civil War . The Oregon Democrat was carried forward by a new publisher, Pat Malone, but the Confederate -sympathizing weekly ran into trouble with

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506-612: Was left as the paper's sole editor and publisher. He managed the Democrat-Herald until selling his shares to Elmo Smith in 1957. Under Smith's leadership, the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co. purchased the Cottage Grove Sentinel in 1961. Smith died in 1968. In 1970, the company purchased the Lebanon Express from Robert Hayden and the Ashland Daily Tidings from Edd Rountree. It also purchased

529-426: Was privately owned by individuals for most of the 20th Century. In 1919 the Albany Democrat was purchased by local school superintendent William L. Jackson and his business partner, Ralph R. Cronise. It would be this pair who owned the merged publication from its establishment in 1925. Jackson died on Feb. 14, 1949, and his stake in the paper's ownership was inherited by his son Grant Jackson. At that time Cronise

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