Chris Smith
Columnist at The Press Democrat
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1 week ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
Carrillo said players on opposing teams knew “you always played your hardest when you played the Perry A’s.”The league’s current president, Kinsey Lawrence, said there are good reasons that the Westside baseball park alongside rural Wright Elementary School is named John Perry Field. She said she’s worked with many Little League coaches, some wonderful ones.
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3 weeks ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
Phyllis Shapiro, a pillar of an old and leading Sonoma County family, was pleased that among her roles in the community was being the woman behind The Tootsie Roll Man. Her husband of nearly six decades was the comical and widely adored attorney Everett Shapiro, a prominent Jewish leader who one-upped Santa Claus by doling candy by the bushel to kids in and around Santa Rosa all year long.
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1 month ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
Bruce Rochester’s training as a career law-enforcement officer began not long after April 9, 1955 — the day he was born in Healdsburg. As a kid growing up in Sonoma County and then Lake County, Rochester observed and was mentored by his father, Alvie Rochester, whose decades in uniform included back-to-back terms as sheriff of Lake County and undersheriff of Mendocino County.
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1 month ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
Field might have had Levesque stay there at Sonoma County Community Hospital, but he knew he’d need four vacancies in the intensive-care nursery, and there weren’t that many. So he quickly assembled a team of doctors and nurses to meet him and Levesque the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1985, at Children’s Hospital of San Francisco, now part of Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center.
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2 months ago |
petaluma360.com | Chris Smith
Before Mike Kerns was elected to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors in 1998, he was the Petaluma police sergeant who updated a distraught community and nation on one of the most shocking crimes to ever hit Sonoma County. Nearly every day for two anguished months in 1993, he was the stoic face that provided the latest details to news reporters from across the country on the abduction of 12-year-old Polly Klaas from her home. Kerns, a “gentle giant” of a public servant, died Feb. 5. He was 78.
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