Lake County Record-Bee

History

In 1872, J.B. Baccus, Jr., founded The Cloverdale Bee in Cloverdale, California. A year later he moved his equipment to Lakeport and relaunched his paper as the Lake County Bee. The business had several other proprietors in the following years and eventually came to be owned by A.C. Jackson.

In 1875, A.A.R. Utting, who previously owned the Napa Reporter, established the Lake Democrat. His health failed and he sold it in 1879 to John R. Cook, who a year later merged the business with Jackson's to form the Lakeport Bee-Democrat, which the two operated together. A fire destroyed the paper's office in 1883 and Jackson retired a few months later. The name was then changed to the Lakeport Democrat.

In 1921, Dr. W.R. Prather bought the paper, by then renamed back to the Bee, from G.E. Nichols. It was then managed by his son-in-law William "Bill" Bolce. In 1925, Sidney Roche and E.J. Moore founded the Lakeport Record in Upper Lake. The two soon acquired the Clear Lake Press at Lakeport, which ceased following a fire in the town. In 1926, they replaced it with a new paper called The Lakeport Press. The Press and Record were later consolidated to form the Lakeport Press-Record.

Bolce operated the Bee for almost 20 years until selling in 1940 it to Moore. In 1956, Roland R. Johnsrud became the new owner and he consolidated the Bee and the Press-Record in 1961 to form the Lake County Record-Bee. At the time the Press and Record had a circulation of 1,300 and the Bee had 1,600. The editorial team consisted of three who wrote for both papers. In 1981, the Times Publishing Company, owner of the Erie Times-News, bought the paper from Johnsrud. In 2001, the Record-Bee came under the ownership of MediaNews Group. At that time the paper had 7,300 subscribers.

References

References

1. Cook, Jan. (April 28, 2013). "Lake County History: A brief history of Lake County's newspapers". Lake County News.
2. (August 3, 1872). "Notices Of The Press". The Cloverdale Bee.
3. (April 12, 1873). "Lake County Bee.". Lake County Bee.
4. (October 20, 1889). "In Picturesque Lake County.". The San Francisco Examiner.
5. (September 21, 1883). "The Lakeport Fire.". Napa County Reporter.
6. (February 23, 1884). "From our Exchanges". Mendocino Coast Beacon.
7. (September 9, 1921). "Two Newspaper Have Been Sold". Petaluma Argus-Courier.
8. (July 15, 1925). "New Paper Planned". Visalia Times-Delta.
9. (July 9, 1926). "Lake County Items Of Unusual Value". The Weekly Calistogian.
10. (September 29, 1955). "E.J. Moore, 64, Former Publisher, Dies". The Sacramento Bee.
11. (March 20, 1940). ""Bill" Bolce Stepping Out {{!}} Lakeport Publisher Is Selling Newspaper To Lakeport Press". Ukiah Republican Press.
12. (April 30, 1961). "Two Lake Weeklies Consolidate". The Press Democrat.
13. (November 4, 1981). "Times Publishing buys Record-Bee". The Press Democrat.
14. (February 1, 200). "Rosenburg named regional vice president of MediaNews Group newspaper cluster". Enterprise-Record.