Bill Mead, the formerowner, publisher, editor and current columnist for California's weekly Tehachapi News, died March 7 of a brief illness. He was 80."Bill knew and understood humanity well, and his skills with people served him well in his different jobs, which included helping to pass water bonds to make the California State Water Project a reality," Jon Goodman wrote in the News, which Mead sold to a subsidary of the nearby Bakersfield Californian 10 years ago. "Bill was far more professional than other newspaper people working in Kern County then or now. He was an old-school publisher who insisted our little weekly have high standards as though we were a big daily." (Read more)
For Tara McLaughlin's obituary of Mead in the Californian, click here.
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