Highway 29 Publishing, a public benefit corporation, has acquired the assets of two Napa County weeklies: The Calistoga Tribune and the Yountville Sun, the Napa Valley Register reported.Pat Hampton and Ramona Asmus launched The Calistoga Tribune, a CNPA Member, 20 years ago. Larry Kamer will be Highway 29’s publisher. Among the new company’s advisers is Bruce Kyse, former editor and publisher of The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa.Sharon Stensaas, now Yountville Sun publisher emeritus, said: “I’m very proud of what I’ve done, and I think it’s time for someone else to come along and make the improvements I wasn’t able to accomplish.” Stensaas and her late husband Oscar Rhodes founded The Sun, a former CNPA Member, in 1998.
New owners for Calistoga, Yountville weeklies
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