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Friday, February 7, 2020
El Dorado County supervisor races
Meet your candidates for the March 3 Primary
District 4 District 1
District 5
n Supervisors serve four-year terms and per the El Dorado County Charter may serve only two consecutive terms.
District 2
District 3
District 1 For information on vote centers, drop box locations, dates and hours go to edcgov. us/government/ elections.
Ron Briggs
El Dorado Hills
Pleasant Valley Cameron Park
Wayne HAug
John Hidahl
Ben Paulsen
Felicity Carlson
Tyler Kuskie
Kevin Loewen
Ray Nutting
Ken Pimlott
George Turnboo
Happy Valley
Somerset Frenchtown
Grizzly Flat Outingdale
District 2
Fair Play Nashville Mt. Aukum Coyoteville
Latrobe
Placerville
Brian DeBerry
Omo Ranch
Camino
Smith Flat
District 3
Newtown
Diamond Springs El Dorado
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Wendy Thomas
Former Mountain Democrat publisher Jim Webb dies at 79 Pat Lakey Staff writer
Jim Webb
Jim Webb, publisher of the Mountain Democrat for nearly 25 years during the 1980s and into the new millennium, has died. Webb, 79, died Monday, Feb. 3, at his home in El Dorado Hills. The publisher whose smile showed up at nearly every public function began serving at the helm of the newspaper Sept. 9, 1985 and would lead California’s oldest newspaper until he relinquished that honor July 31, 2009.
“He pushed hard at the newspaper, but also gave his time to the community he grew to love.” — Foy S. McNaughton, president and CEO of McNaughton Newspapers The McNaughton family who owns the Mountain Democrat and several other north state newspapers expressed grief at Webb’s passing “We hired Jim away from the Auburn Journal in the mid-‘80s — it took a couple attempts and a few years to convince him and (wife)
Barbara to make the move,” recalled Foy S. McNaughton, president and CEO of McNaughton Newspapers. “It was more than worth the effort,” McNaughton added. “Jim brought professionalism and that winning personality to the Mountain Democrat. He pushed hard at the newspaper, but also gave his
time to the community he grew to love.” The man who started out in the newspaper industry as a newsboy delivering newspapers, then climbed the ranks in the advertising sales department for decades at several different newspapers, always loved a good story. And if it had a punch line, even better. “I remember coming back from a boxing match at Arco years ago, when Jim had me laughing so hard I thought
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