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39-546: The Democrat-Herald covers 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

78-503: A Grand Parade (featuring the Strawberry Royalty Court), and a carnival. It is held the first weekend of June. The city has 15 developed parks, totaling 71.5 acres (28.9 ha), which provide residents with baseball, softball, and soccer fields, as well as playgrounds, basketball and tennis courts, and other resources. Gills Landing has a boat ramp and dock, as well as an RV park, camping area, and showers. Ralston Park hosts

117-456: 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 was privately owned by individuals for most of the 20th Century. In 1919 the Albany Democrat

156-472: A circulation of approximately 8,000. Starting June 27, 2023, 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. Lebanon, Oregon Lebanon ( / ˈ l ɛ b ə n ə n / LEB -ən-ən )

195-664: A majority share of the Democrat-Herald in 1949. He later bought out the co-publisher and added nine other Oregon weekly newspapers to the company, retaining them until his death in 1980. Jackson was also a trustee of the Agri-Business Council of Oregon, St. Vincent Medical Foundation, Willamette University, Linfield College Board of Associates, Oregon State University Foundation, Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital, Mercy Flights Inc, Rogue Valley Manor, Foundation of Oregon Research & Education, Indian Festival of Arts Inc. and Columbia River Maritime Museum. Jackson died of cancer at

234-496: A media company which already owned 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

273-783: A stint in military service in World War II , during which he attained the rank of colonel in the United States Army Air Forces . Jackson served as Executive Officer under Ira C. Eaker , commander of the Eighth Air Force, in Italy. Among the decorations he received were the Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Order of the British Empire, and Crown of Italy. After the war, Jackson continued to work for COPCO. He became vice-chairman of

312-697: Is a city in Linn County , Oregon , United States. Lebanon is located in northwest Oregon, southeast of Salem . The population was 19,690 at the 2020 census . Lebanon sits beside the South Santiam River on the eastern edge of the Willamette Valley , close to the Cascade Range and a 25-minute drive to either of the larger cities of Corvallis and Albany. Lebanon is known for its foot-and-bike trails, its waterside parks, and its small-town character. As of

351-705: Is land and 0.20 square miles (0.52 km ) is water. This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F (22.0 °C). According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Lebanon has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate , abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. Lowe's Regional Distribution Center is the largest employer in Lebanon, with 650 employees. The other major employers are Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital , Lebanon Schools, Walmart , Weyerhaeuser , and Entek International . Lebanon

390-579: Is now Ralston Park. Nearby, on today's Main Street, they built a store. It soon became a stop for gold seekers on their way to California. A village grew up around the store, and in 1855 the couple filed a plat for the town, naming it for Jeremiah's birthplace of Lebanon, Tennessee . They also donated land for the Santiam Academy , which the Methodist Episcopal Church operated until 1906. Lebanon

429-675: Is served by the Lebanon Community Schools public school district , which includes Lebanon High School . It is also home to the private East Linn Christian Academy , which serves students from preschool through twelfth grade (PreK-12). Western University of Health Sciences opened their College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest in August 2011, the first new medical school in Oregon since Oregon Health & Science University

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468-435: Is still in use, running through Lebanon backyards to provide water for the people of Albany. Railroads helped Lebanon provide its goods not only to Albany but to the world. The Albany–Lebanon Railroad, completed in 1880, was a branch of the Oregon and California Railroad's north–south line through Albany. The Southern Pacific eventually took over these lines and, in 1910, rerouted the old Oregonian line through Lebanon. From

507-554: The Fremont , Astoria–Megler , and Marquam bridges. Glenn Jackson was born to William L. and Minnie Jackson, in Albany, Oregon , on April 27, 1902. His father came to Oregon in 1877. His mother was a native of Oregon, born on a donation land claim in Yamhill County, Oregon , in 1872. While teaching Mr. and Mrs. Jackson met; both were Linn County, Oregon , schoolteachers. Mr. Jackson was elected superintendent of Linn County schools at

546-507: The census of 2010, there were 15,518 people, 6,118 households, and 3,945 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,326.5 inhabitants per square mile (898.3/km ). There were 6,820 housing units at an average density of 1,022.5 per square mile (394.8/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 91.2% White, 0.5% African American, 1.4% Native American, 1.1% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 2.1% from other races, and 3.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.8% of

585-412: The 1890s on, a great variety of farming and food-processing industries flourished in the area. Eastern Oregon came to dominate in wheat growing, but Lebanon-area farmers produced orchard fruits, berries, walnuts, filberts, hops, flax, vegetables, forage crops, turkeys, mohair, honey, and flowers for florists. Lebanon had a cheese factory, a creamery, potato warehouses, a cannery, and prune and nut driers. In

624-732: The 1920s, the local grass-seed industry got its start, and by the 1930s Linn County was the leading county in grass-seed production in the United States. Lebanon's most celebrated crop has been strawberries. By 1907, Lebanon was one of the leading strawberry-growing areas in the Willamette Valley. Lebanon's Strawberry Festival – featuring, since 1931, "the World's Largest Strawberry Shortcake" – has been an annual event since 1909. As of 2020, however, only one local strawberry field remains. The local wood-products industry began to grow around 1900, which

663-921: 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 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

702-675: The Grand Ronde Valley. In 1859, local men in search of a way to drive cattle to central Oregon discovered the Santiam Pass . Soon Lebanon found itself on another essential trade route. Linn County stockmen incorporated the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Road in 1864, and vacationers as well as stockmen came to rely on what came to be called the Santiam Wagon Road . This toll road was later replaced with U.S. Highway 20. Transportation

741-702: The Lebanite hardwood plant in 2004. Weyerhaeuser shut down the last of the big mills in 2006 and 2007. Unemployment rocketed, and Main Street storefronts were left empty. In the twenty-first century, the city's economy has improved. The openings of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest , in 2011, the Edward C. Allworth Veterans' Home, in 2017, and Linn-Benton Community College's HealthCare Occupations Center, in 2017, have sparked growth. Weyerhaeuser opened

780-652: 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 was able to be reestablished in Albany. This

819-589: The South Santiam River. The local population swelled, and the Great Depression had little effect on the city. In 1940, a still greater boom began. That year, Evans Products built what was purported to be the biggest plywood mill in the world. "Evansville" became a station on the Oregon and Electric line. World War II increased the demand for plywood, and women took men's places in the mill. From 1940 to 1950, Lebanon's population grew by 115 percent. In 1952,

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858-669: The age of 78 on June 20, 1980, in Portland. The Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge , completed in 1982 to carry Interstate 205 across the Columbia River , is named after him. Jackson leased, then purchased, in 1946, a fashionable Colonial Revival house in Medford that was designed by noted architect Frank Chamberlain Clark . The house, known as the Clark-Jackson House , is listed on

897-474: The board of Pacific Power & Light (PP&L) (now a division of PacifiCorp ) in 1961, when COPCO merged with PP&L, and later chairman, until retiring from that position in 1972. He was also a director of Standard Insurance Company, the U.S. National Bank of Oregon, Fred Meyer, Inc., and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He developed White City, an industrial and residential park, on the site of Camp White near Medford, Oregon . He and his sister inherited

936-561: 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 , the Albany Herald. The dual partisan newspapers battled for market share for nearly half

975-566: The late 1970s. The company acquired the remaining 75% from 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 —

1014-428: The plywood plant, now called Cascade Plywood, began producing Lebanite, a hard composite board. Lebanon residents began calling themselves Lebanites. Cascade Plywood came to dominate Lebanon's economy. Lebanon's economy began a slow decline in the 1970s. As overharvesting in the nearby forests made timber extraction more expensive, the mills began closing. Lebanon's paper mill closed in 1980, the plywood mill in 1984, and

1053-442: The population. There were 6,118 households, of which 33.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.6% were married couples living together, 14.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 35.5% were non-families. 28.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

1092-412: The state-of-the-art Santiam Lumber sawmill in 2008, only one year after closing down the old Bauman sawmill. Main Street storefronts and old houses are being renovated, and brewpubs, bakeries, and other new businesses are thriving. Lebanon is the home of the World's Largest Strawberry Shortcake, a part of the annual Strawberry Festival that began in 1909. The Strawberry Festival includes a Junior Parade,

1131-626: The state. He made a strong mark on the state as a 20-year member, and later chair, of the Oregon State Highway Commission, later known as the Oregon Transportation Commission . He was initially appointed to the commission by Governor Mark Hatfield in 1959. He became chair in 1962, and was reappointed by Governors Tom McCall and Robert Straub . Jackson directed the planning and construction of 700 miles (1,100 km) of freeway and more than 800 bridges, including

1170-445: The supply of timber in the upper Midwest declined. The industry began to boom when the Oregon and Electric Railroad was completed, in 1932. New sawmills were built along the line in town as well as in the mountains. From 1937 to 1942, twenty new mills opened in the city; they made a great variety of wood products. The paper mill, which had originally made paper from wheat straw, doubled in size in 1936 to process logs that were floated down

1209-437: The town's Christmas tree and yearly lighting celebration. A local nonprofit organization, Build Lebanon Trails, is working with the city government to build more than fifty miles (80 km) of walking and biking trails in Lebanon. Glenn Jackson Glenn L. Jackson (nickname " Mr. Oregon "; April 27, 1902 – June 20, 1980) was a businessman in the U.S. state of Oregon , and an influential transportation planner in

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1248-678: The turn of the 20th century. He later became co-publisher of the Albany Democrat-Herald . Although he was expelled from high school and admitted to Oregon State University on a provisional basis, Jackson received a bachelor of science degree in 1925. After graduating, Jackson started as a salesman for Mountain States Power Company in Albany, Oregon . He became sales manager in 1927 and vice president in 1929. That same year he became vice president and director of California Oregon Power Company (COPCO) in Medford, Oregon . Jackson had

1287-561: Was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.05. The median age in the city was 36.6 years. 25.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.9% were from 25 to 44; 23.6% were from 45 to 64; and 16.3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.7% male and 52.3% female. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 6.87 square miles (17.79 km ), of which 6.67 square miles (17.28 km )

1326-539: 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 a new publisher, Fred Nutting, who placed his mark on

1365-671: Was established on the land of the Louis Band of the Santiam Kalapuya . Like other Kalapuya tribes, the Santiam had dwindled in number, from malaria and other diseases, before the Americans arrived. In 1855, the band sold the U.S. government their rights to the land and moved to a temporary reservation on a claim belonging to the Ralstons' son, just south of their own. There the band awaited removal to

1404-414: Was established. The school opened with 107 students. In 2017, Linn-Benton Community College opened its HealthCare Occupations Center beside the osteopathic college. In 2021, Western University of Health Sciences opened its College of Health Sciences for students of physical therapy. In 1847, Jeremiah and Jemima Ralston bought a pioneers' cabin, staked a claim, and built a log house on a low rise at what

1443-653: 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

1482-405: Was often easier by water than land in the early decades of American settlement in the Willamette Valley. The South Santiam River was too shallow for large boats, so in 1872 construction began on a canal to carry barges laden with goods between Lebanon and Albany. But the water flowed too fast for upstream shipping, and the coming of the railroad curtailed downstream shipping. Today, however, the canal

1521-487: 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 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,

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