[3] The Lebanon Express was first published by Jacob H. Stine on March 5, 1887.

The name was changed back to the Lebanon Express in 1912.

[4] Robert Hayden owned the Lebanon Express for 34 years until selling it in 1970 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co.[5] Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980,[6] which itself was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1995.

[7] Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997.

[8] The paper published its final edition on Jan. 18, 2023 and rolled coverage of the area into The Albany Democrat-Herald.