Russell retires but newspaper lives on
Once the story about the 166-year-old Mountain Messenger’s plan to close its doors hit the Los Angeles Times’ newswire, Don Russell, the paper’s editor and publisher, said he has spent an incredible amount of time the past several weeks dealing with print and broadcast reporters assigned to the story. Recently reporters from ABC’s Channel 10 in Sacramento and CBS News in San Francisco were in Quincy interviewing and filming Russell as California’s oldest weekly newspaper was leaving the pressroom at its longtime printer, Feather Publishing Co. Photo by Debra Moore
