Lebanon Express

The Lebanon Express was a weekly newspaper in Lebanon, Oregon. It was owned by Lee Enterprises.^[1] The paper ceased publication in January 2023.^[3]

Lebanon Express

Front page on March 5, 1887
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Lee Enterprises
Publisher	Jeff Precourt[1]
Editor	Les Gehrett[2]
Founded	March 5, 1887; 138 years ago (1887-03-05)
Ceased publication	January 18, 2023
Headquarters	90 East Grant Street Lebanon, Oregon 97355
Country	United States
Circulation	2,149 (as of 2014)[1]
ISSN	2472-6648
OCLC number	38041261
Website	lebanon-express.com
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History

The Lebanon Express was first published by Jacob H. Stine on March 5, 1887. Stine left the paper after a year. In 1987, Hugh Yandel Kirkpatrick merged the Lebanon Express with the Lebanon Advance to form Lebanon Express-Advance. The name was changed back to the Lebanon Express in 1912.^[4]

Robert Hayden owned the Lebanon Express for 34 years until selling it in 1970 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co.^[5] Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980,^[6] which itself was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1995.^[7] Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997.^[8]

The paper published its final edition on Jan. 18, 2023 and rolled coverage of the area into The Albany Democrat-Herald.^[9][3]