 The paper was founded in 1937.Walter C. Taylor Jr. bought the paper, along with the nearby "Gresham Outlook" and several other Oregon papers, in the early 1960s.The newspaper is owned by Community Newspapers/Pamplin Media Group, a company of Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Pamplin acquired the "Post" from Lee Enterprises (Davenport, Iowa) in 2000. the publisher was Claudia Stewart.