The Headlight-Herald is a weekly paper published in Tillamook, Oregon, United States, since 1888.
[6] It published more notices of applications for entry of land under the Timber and Stone Act than any other paper in Oregon or Washington.
[5] He ran the paper until selling out in 1920 to Leslie Harrison and Harold Hamstreet, son of the owner of the Sheridan Sun.
[15] In 1928, Irl S. McSherry and George E. Martin, former owners of the McMinnville Telephone Register, bought the Headlight from Blodgett.
The paper ceased within two years and the printing plant was acquired by in 1892 by John J. Stoddard and A. G. Reynolds who started the Tillamook Advocate.
[5] He published the paper for 15 years until selling it in August 1923 to Allan McComb and Fred T.
[5] The Headlight and the Herald merged in 1934 to form the Headlight-Herald,[19][20] with Thomas Walpole and D. M. DeCook as publishers.
[21] The Headlight-Herald was sold in 1973 to Dave Juenke, Walter Taylor and Lee Irwin.
[25] In April 2007, the newspaper was purchased by Country Media, Inc., along with The News Guard in Lincoln City.
Those two papers had previously been owned by Oregon Coast Newspapers LLC since February 2003.