It is a healthy infant, comes to us in a handsome dress and apparently nursed by some one who is well up in the ways and manners of newspaper work.
[17] Jack M. Biggs then ran the Herald as editor and publisher for two years,[18] and sold it in 1930 to a group of three including Alfred Quiring[19] Leander Quiring joined his brother as the paper's co-owner in 1939,[20] and went on to serve as Hermiston mayor for four years and then in the Oregon state senate.
[23] Years later Bartlett purchased the Umatilla County Sun in 1955[24] and then ran for the Democratic nomination for state senator in 1958 while continuing to work as the Herald's publisher.
[26] He bought the Heppner Gazette-Times two years later[27] and merged his company with Eagle Newspapers in a stock-for-stock exchange in March 1979.
[33] In June 2024, EO Media Group announced The Hermiston Herald will cease print publication and go online-only.
All print subscribers will instead receive the East Oregonian, published weekly and including news from The Hermiston Herald's website.