The New Era won three first-place awards in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for work done in 2016.
The awards were announced Thursday, July 13, at the ONPA’s annual convention, in Bend.
The New Era’s first-place awards, in a division for smaller weekly newspapers, were:
– Best Lifestyle Coverage for a story by Sean C. Morgan in the April 27, 2016 about a Nandina Street apartment owner’s efforts to clean up his…