WELCHES - The News-Review has been named the best newspaper of its size in the state. The news staff won first place in the General Excellence category in the 2012 Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.The award was announced Friday, the final day of ONPA's summer convention at the Resort on the Mountain in Welches. On Thursday evening, the newspaper was presented with 18 awards for news, feature and sports stories, editorials, photography, graphics, page design and its website, nrtoday.com.The News-Review competed against other Oregon daily newspapers with circulations between 10,001 and 25,000.The paper also received …