Lake County Record-Bee

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Lake County Record-Bee
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) MediaNews Group
Founder(s)J.B. Baccus, Jr.,
Founded1873 (as Lake County Bee)
LanguageEnglish
City Lakeport, California
ISSN 0746-4304
OCLC number 10036834
Website record-bee.com

The Lake County Record-Bee is a newspaper in the town of Lakeport, California. [1]

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History

In 1872, J.B. Baccus, Jr., founded The Cloverdale Bee in Cloverdale, California. [2] A year later he moved his equipment to Lakeport and relaunched his paper as the Lake County Bee. [3] The business had several other proprietors in the following years and eventually came to be owned by A.C. Jackson. [4]

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 LakeportBee-Democrat, which the two operated together. [4] A fire destroyed the paper's office in 1883 [5] and Jackson retired a few months later. [6] The name was then changed to the Lakeport Democrat. [4]

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. [7] In 1925, Sidney Roche and E.J. Moore founded the Lakeport Record in Upper Lake. [8] 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. [9] The Press and Record were later consolidated to form the Lakeport Press-Record. [10]

Bolce operated the Bee for almost 20 years until selling in 1940 it to Moore. [11] 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. [12] In 1981, the Times Publishing Company, owner of the Erie Times-News, bought the paper from Johnsrud. [13] In 2001, the Record-Bee came under the ownership of MediaNews Group. At that time the paper had 7,300 subscribers. [14]

References

  1. ↑ Cook, Jan (April 28, 2013). "Lake County History: A brief history of Lake County's newspapers". Lake County News. Retrieved August 24, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Notices Of The Press". The Cloverdale Bee. Cloverdale, California. August 3, 1872. p. 4.
  3. ↑ "Lake County Bee". Lake County Bee. Lakeport, California. April 12, 1873. p. 2.
  4. 1 2 3 "In Picturesque Lake County". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. October 20, 1889. p. 34.
  5. ↑ "The Lakeport Fire". Napa County Reporter. Napa, California. September 21, 1883. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "From our Exchanges". Mendocino Coast Beacon. Mendocino, California. February 23, 1884. p. 3.
  7. ↑ "Two Newspaper Have Been Sold". Petaluma Argus-Courier. Petaluma, California. September 9, 1921. p. 6.
  8. ↑ "New Paper Planned". Visalia Times-Delta. Visalia, California. July 15, 1925. p. 8.
  9. ↑ "Lake County Items Of Unusual Value". The Weekly Calistogian. Calistoga, California. July 9, 1926. p. 5.
  10. ↑ "E.J. Moore, 64, Former Publisher, Dies". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California. September 29, 1955. p. 32.
  11. ↑ ""Bill" Bolce Stepping Out | Lakeport Publisher Is Selling Newspaper To Lakeport Press". Ukiah Republican Press. Ukiah, California. March 20, 1940. p. 8.
  12. ↑ "Two Lake Weeklies Consolidate". The Press Democrat. Santa Rosa, California. April 30, 1961. p. 35.
  13. ↑ "Times Publishing buys Record-Bee". The Press Democrat. Santa Rosa, California. November 4, 1981. p. 6.
  14. ↑ "Rosenburg named regional vice president of MediaNews Group newspaper cluster". Enterprise-Record. Chico, California. February 1, 200. p. 11.
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