In Memoriam: Fred Zehnder, 87

Zehnder had a career as a TV news director before founding the San Leandro Times in 1991. He later bought the Castro Valley Forum. For eight years, he held two full-time jobs, one in TV and one in print, the obituary said.

“Fred just liked to do the real work of putting out a newspaper, the nuts and bolts of it,” said Jim Knowles, managing editor of the San Leandro Times. “He wasn’t like the idea that people have of a publisher sitting behind a big desk smoking cigars. He just worked.”