[7] Citing boycotts and labor costs, founders Charles Ballard and C. T. Price moved the Bee to neighboring Milwaukie about four months into publication, changing its name to the Milwaukee Bee (with an incorrect spelling); but they returned to Sellwood eight months later, to offices the paper would occupy until the 1990s.
[7] Thompson and Price had some success in building up the paper, and used its pages to advocate for business interests in Sellwood's development.
John P. Locke, who also owned the Nob Hill News of Northwest Portland, bought the paper in 1920, but kept Thompson on as publisher.
[16] By December, MR announced it would shut down the Bee, and that it had sold three other Portland papers it had purchased (St. Johns Review, the oldest weekly community newspaper in Portland; Northwest Neighbor, a monthly community newspaper started in 1975 by former mayor Bud Clark; and the Hollywood Star).
[18] The Pamplin Media Group bought the paper from the Dillins in 2000, a purchase that was announced concurrently with its acquisition of 10 other newspapers.