Don’t Forget We’re On Paper As Well As Online

Don’t forget our FREE print version hits the streets every Thursday afternoon at JC Thriftway, the Toledo Public Library, Toledo City Hall and Pigfeathers BBQ. Friday mornings we’re up fresh for breakfast at Main Street Cafe and Chef’s Place.

If you use our print version we’d like to know the details. Please join our discussion on Facebook. If you are not a Facebook member, please email us.

You can also get instant updates about every Wavelength post by following @yaquina_wave on Twitter.

Thanks for your participation in this project.

 Report an error

Visit Us On Facebook

You can now connect with the Wavelength on Facebook. Check out our collection of photos from Quilt Quest MMX.

 Report an error

We Go To Press – Friday, May 7

The first paper edition of the Wavelength appears Friday, May 7. You can find your free copy at the Toledo Public Library, JC Thriftway, Toledo City Hall, Main Street Cafe, Pigfeathers, and Chef’s Place.  Pick up a few copies and spread ‘em around town!

We hope the Wavelength will become your paper. That means we need to hear from you, especially when you have news that will be of interest to the entire community. You can email your news tips to inbox@yaquinawavelength.com.

Please consider supporting us with classified or display advertising. The Wavelength ad deadline is noon Monday before publication. For details about our rates and policies, visit our FAQ. Send inquiries to ads@yaquinawavelength.com. While we give precedence to electronic communication, you can send us mail at PO Box 432 Toledo, OR 97391.

We will also accept voluntary subscriptions for $10 a year – which offsets the cost of printing your copy 52 times.

Above all else, we hope you will tell your friends and neighbors about the Wavelength, visit us frequently online, and share our paper copies.

Follow us on Twitter at yaquina_wave.

Please bookmark our site by tapping <CNTL D> on a PC, or <CMD D> on a Mac. Or subscribe to our RSS feed. That link is found in the lower right-hand side of each page, as well as a link to a tutorial about RSS. If you do not have an RSS reader, try http://reader.google.com. You will need to set up a Gmail account to use it.

Many other free readers are available.

 Report an error

Our Paper Edition is Coming

The paper edition of the Wavelength will be here before you know it. The first edition will hit the streets Friday, May 7, just in time for Quilt Quest MMX. You will find your free copy at the Toledo Public Library, JC Thriftway, Toledo City Hall, Main Street Cafe and Chef’s Place. Other locations may be announced soon. Pick up a few and spread ‘em around town!

We hope the Wavelength will become your paper. That means we need to hear from you, especially when you have news that will be of interest to the entire community. You can email your news tips to inbox@yaquinawavelength.com.

Please consider supporting us with classified or display advertising. The Wavelength ad deadline is noon Monday before publication. For details about our rates and policies, visit our FAQ. Send inquiries to ads@yaquinawavelength.com. While we give precedence to electronic communication, you can send us mail at PO Box 432 Toledo, OR 97391.

Above all else, we hope you will tell your friends and neighbors about the Wavelength and visit us frequently online.

Please bookmark our site by tapping <CNTL D> on a PC, or <CMD D> on a Mac. Or subscribe to our RSS feed. That link is found in the lower right-hand side of each page, as well as a link to a tutorial about RSS. If you do not have an RSS reader, try http://reader.google.com. You will need to set up a Gmail account to use it.

Many other free readers are available.

 Report an error

Toledo Newspapers: A Short History

There is a long, rich history of journalism and news publication in Toledo, reaching back to well before its establishment as a city in 1905.

The first edition of the Lincoln County Leader was published in Toledo on March 9, 1893, less than one week after the establishment of Lincoln County by the State of Oregon, when the ratification papers were signed in Toledo.

That first issue of The Leader offered an “Introductory” in which it was written that “In entering upon the work of publishing a weekly paper we will make no promises of future great performances, assuring the people only that as long as we are engaged in the work we will do our utmost for the advancement of the best interest of Lincoln County and Toledo, asking in return as liberal a patronage as the people feel that our efforts have entitled us to.”

The Lincoln County Leader passed through several owners, until it was purchased by Elmer and Margaret Price, who published the Leader for 16 years, with the final issue published November 3 1966. The Prices also published the Newport Graphic-Review from 1963 to 1966. The two papers were purchased in ’66 by the publishers of the Newport News-Times. The Leader continued to publish under its own masthead until it was dissolved into the News-Times in 1987.

Under Elmer and Margaret Price, the Leader became the first weekly in Oregon to install automated typesetting equipment, and in 1959 was the first weekly in the state to use a photo-offset press. The Leader Building on the corner of Main and Business 20 was built by the Prices in 1959, and is now the home of Breseño Gallery.

In his farewell editorial, Elmer Price wrote that “the greatest reward in the experience of weekly newspaper publishing has been the close association we have had with people of our communities.” As for the role of the newspaper, Price wrote “We have tried always, in the interest of all segments of the community, to be an independent voice with honesty and with fairness to all viewpoints.”

That’s a good goal. We hope to meet it.

 Report an error