06/22/2009

Associated Press

John Dillon, the advertising director of the Argus Observer newspaper in Ontario, has been named publisher.

He succeeds Steve Krehl, who retired earlier this month.

The 46-year-old Dillon has been advertising director since 2003. Before that, he was for 16 years in the advertising department at the Idaho Press-Tribune in Nampa-Caldwell.

Dillon is a native of Caldwell. He grew up outside of Wilder near the Snake River, graduated from Greenleaf Friends Academy in Greenleaf and attended Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa.