Paying tribute to our 150th anniversary eri and I couldn’t be more making the transition to desktop To that end, you also make it proud to be the publishers of publishing using Apple computers possible for us to employ 85 really K this newspaper as it celebrates and various software programs. talented individuals, many of whom its sesquicentennial, 150 years of Today there are no more Keri and I are proud to say have continuous publication — laying darkrooms and razor blades. We worked with us for the better part of claim to being one of the oldest electronically send the finished their lives — and ours. newspapers in California and also pages to what we call our prepress It’s their unselfish dedication one of the oldest (if not the oldest), department where the page images and hard work, often in the face of businesses still operating in Plumas are etched onto aluminum plates. challenging deadlines and long County. These plates are used on our Goss hours, that brings you these In our 42 years with the paper, Community press that we have award-winning newspapers each we’ve seen our share of changes, expanded over the years. It is now and every week. Words alone can’t both in our business, within our capable of printing full color and up convey how much we respect and industry and certainly in the to a 28-page section at a time. appreciate each and every onef o community. Mike Taborski, Publisher But through this evolution and them. Looking through many of the remembering all the changes we’ve The newspaper’s future, you ask? hardbound back issues of the Bulletin type. The first computer the paper made also reminded me that When radio came along, many while doing research for this special used to set news stories and display newspapers are more than just ink said it would be the end of print. section, I was again reminded of how ads was called a Unisetter and we on paper. Television was a community fascinating it is to literally see the paid a whopping $25,000 for it. It The one thing that hasn’t changed newspaper’s next enemy. Now it’s evolution of the printing industry on was built by a company called over the past 150 years is the the Internet and social media. those early newspaper pages and Compugraphic who were the early important role newspapers play in I continue to serve on the board of how they compare to today’s pioneers with typesetting computers their community. They are the directors of the California product. for our industry — hence the hefty lifeblood of their town. The Newspaper Publishers Association. It took me back to the days when price. newspaper becomes the permanent We meet regularly to discuss Keri and I were dating in high Keri and I along with a handful of record as it accurately covers local newspaper issues and practices and school. I would come by the paper’s others still working with us today, news and events while providing a to share innovative ideas to ensure office on Bucks Lake Road and Kevin Mallory, Tom Forney, Eva lively forum for a healthy discussion newspapers are relevant in today’s watch the linotype operators set one Small, Patsy Dingle, Randy Stratton, of issues. That was something that evolving climate. line of type at a time cast from a Cobey Brown and Carrie Curran still really stood out as I perused the As the media landscape continues melting pot of hot lead and then reminisce about how fun and paper’s pages year after year. to change we’ll continue to change marvel as the sheet-fed press printed challenging it was in those early Some consider newspapers a and adapt as well. I am convinced four pages, one side at a time, days to learn the nuances of all the public institution and that community newspapers have a eventually creating an 8-page paper new equipment we were bringing understandably so. When you bring bright future in continuing to be a after it was hand folded. online. us something you want to see in the marketplace for goods and services paper, you are telling us it’s As it turned out, Keri’s father, Ev Once all the typesetting and while chronicling the town’s growth important and that it’s news. And Bey, didn’t overlook my interest photos were done, we would paste it and protecting the First Amendment since we are the official local news early on in the business. Convincing all together using razor b lades to cut and the people’s right to know. source for this region, if it’s fit to us to give up what we thought the columns of type with melted At the risk of repeating myself, would be our respective careers — wax as its adhesive. We’d print that print — and 99 percent of the time it is — we include it. Keri and I again want to thank you, we both worked at baneks — h finished paper on a Goss our readers and advertisers and our offered us both a job in the early Community offset press that had an However, newspapers are also a employees for your part in making 1970s. As it turned out, we learned 8-page capacity at the time. business with a bottom line and about newspapering from one of the At the time, we didn’t think that depend solely on its many the Feather River Bulletin’s first 150 best in the industry. In every aspect, creating a finished newspaper page advertisers and readers to exist. To years possible. Ev was truly a great newspaperman was a slow and tedious process each of you we owe our sincerest We ha ve no doubt there will be yet and I was fortunate to have him as compared to the hot type era, but thanks for believing in us and for another special edition celebrating my mentor. compared to today’s technology, it making it possible for the towns in the Bulletin’s 200th anniversary, but When we started in 1974, the really was painfully slow. Plumas and Lassen counties to have for now we’ll relish this moment, paper had just converted to cold In the mid 1980s, we began their own newspaper. this milestone, this achievement. Special Supplement to the Feather River Bulletin, Indian Valley Record, Chester Progressive, Portola Reporter • Aug. 10, 2016 Page 2 Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016 Feather River Bulletin • Special Commemorative Edition Celebrating 150 Years It all began with the Plumas National in 1866 lumas County has A list of newspapers published in been well served overP the decades by a Plumas County since 1853: significant number of newspapers, all doing their job chronicling the 1853-55: The Trumpet, 1910-12: Portola Gazette rich history of the Feather published in Gibsonville River Country. and then relocated in 1912: Portola Headlight, The first newspaper to 1855 to Downieville and published three issues publish in Plumas County renamed the Mountain after Gazette folded was the Mountain Messenger — still Messenger, now located publishing weekly 1912-1918: Greenville in Downieville. It was News originally named The 1855: The Old Trumpet, a semi-weekly Mountaineer; Plumas 1916-17: Portola Sentinel published in Gibsonville Democrat; Fillmore that began Nov. 19, 1853. Since then a score of Banner, all in Quincy 1927-present: Portola newspapers such as the Reporter Union Argus, Standard, 1857-60: Plumas Argus, Star, Independent, Quincy 1930-present: Indian Gazette and National Valley Record, Greenville have faded from the 1859-64: Plumas competitive scene, leaving Standard, relocated from 1931-present: Feather a single publishing Quincy to Downieville in River Bulletin (Plumas operation today that 1864 National Bulletin produces the six weekly renamed) community newspapers 1861-69: Quincy Union; covering all of Plumas moved to LaPorte in 1946-present: Chester and Lassen counties. The Plumas National first published Aug. 11, 1866, and continues today as the Feather River Bulletin after several mergers and four name changes. The Union Party 1868 and changed name Progressive In Quincy: The Plumas of Plumas County published the Plumas National originally, the first of 25 publishers to LaPorte Union National, published by in the 150-year history of the newspaper. The newspaper building was located at the 1963: Plumas Bantam the Union Party of northeast corner of Harbison and West Main streets. File photo Plumas County, was 1866: Plumas National, Bugle, Chester Quincy established Aug. 11, 1866, In Greenville: Greenville News hit the In Portola: Portola’s and continues today as 1963: KQCY Times, Newspaper publishing in street with its final edition first newspaper, the 1880-92: Greenville the Feather River Bulletin Greenville dates back to dated Jan. 18, 1918. Gazette, began publishing Quincy Bulletin; omoved t after several mergers and Sept. 20, 1880, when the Nov. 20, 1930, marked May 12, 1910, and Quincy and renamed just four name changes. first edition of the the first edition of the suspended publication in 1968-77: Graeagle Pow In 1892, the Plumas Greenville Bulletin came Indian Valley Record, 1912. The Sentinel Plumas County Bulletin Wow National-Bulletin off the presses. which was sold to the followed it in 1916, and 1892-1931: Plumas emerged when it Publication continued then owners of the ceased operation a few 1974: Feather River Life combined with the until the fall of 1891 when Feather River Bulletin on years later. The Portola National and Plumas Greenville Bulletin after the whole plant was Oct. 1, 1957. Reporter began County Bulletin merged 1974: Plumas Lantern, that paper moved to moved to Quincy and the In Chester: The Chester publishing a weekly Quincy (published two Quincy and was renamed paper was renamed the Progressive, serving the newspaper in May 1927 1892-1945: Plumas months) the Plumas County Plumas County Bulletin.