The Heppner Gazette-Times is a weekly newspaper serving Morrow County in the U.S. state of Oregon.
[4] At the time of its launch, the city of Heppner had a population of 370; the newspaper was started with contributions from a number of citizens.
[5] Stine brought a Washington handpress from Portland via railroad and set up shop in the pioneer town.
[4] He ran the paper for a short time before transferring his interests to Colonel John W. Redington, a former volunteer Indian scout[4] who fought in the Bannock War.
[5] Redington was an eccentric who painted signs outside his shop that read "Hell on Horse Thieves and Hypocrites" and another proclaimed "The Heppner Gazette Bangup for Bustles.
[9] Shutt got into a fist fight on Main Street with rival newsman Redington of the Gazette in March 1901 and "thrashed" him.
[6] Vawter Crawford purchased the Times and consolidated it with the Gazette to form the Heppner Gazette-Times on Feb. 15, 1912.
[14][15] After her husband suffered a fatal heart attack in 1969 while on a visit to Washington D.C., Helen Sherman operated the Gazette-Times herself.