Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | EO Media Group |
Founder(s) | S. A. Heckethorn |
Founded | 1884 |
Headquarters | 209 N.W. First St. Enterprise, OR 97828 |
City | Enterprise, Oregon |
Country | United States |
Circulation | 1,916 Print 373 Digital (as of 2023) [1] |
Website |
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The Wallowa County Chieftain is a weekly newspaper in Enterprise, Wallowa County in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Founded in Joseph in 1884 by S. A. Heckethorn, the newspaper preceded the establishment of the county itself. [2] [3] A few years after Enterprise was selected as the county seat, the paper relocated there. [2] [4] Though the newspaper was named after Chief Joseph, it was not particularly friendly to Native American issues, and opposed a Joseph's request to resettle Wallowa Valley in 1900. [5]
George Cheney became the owner, editor, and publisher in 1911, on the wave of an economic boom experienced in Enterprise upon the completion of a railroad and sawmill, as well as a booming agricultural business. Cheney built a new building, designed to meet the needs of the paper, which it occupied beginning in 1916. [2] Cheney sold the newspaper in 1941, and the building in 1943, to Gwen Coffin. Coffin, who brought a more controversial approach to the paper, owned it until 1972. [2]
In a 2006 article about Joseph, the New York Times cited the Chieftain's coverage of a new grocery store. [6]
The building used by the paper from 1916 to 2007 has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2012. [7]