George Webb
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George Webb is the editor of the Spearfish Lake Record-Herald in 1975 when he employs Mike McMahon as a junior reporter. To help Mike understand how small towns work he suggests Mike learn about the feud between Garth Matson and Donna Clark without speaking to the principals or raising any complaints.WTLC7
George was once one of the junior reporters hired in to work on the Record-Herald and one of two that made a career out of it.BB16 While it isn't named where he is from, it isn't likely to be too far. He was a high school friend of Ed Sloat.SX05
After the death of the Record-Herald owner, Homer Sanderson, George and Dean Hoffman, the printing plant manager, worked an employee buyout of the paper from Homer's daughters and the two became senior partners in the arrangement. Soon Webb's duties were named Publisher while Mike McMahon became the editor.AF13
To better gather news and gossip, George was a regular for breakfast at Rick's Cafe and had been for twenty years.AF28 BAR10 While being an editor, the Record-Herald was too small for George not to step in and help. "Webb had long believed that newspaper front office people -- advertising and editorial and front office people -- needed to keep a sense of perspective by doing some of the dirty work."BAR02 George himself could sweat over the Addressograph machineBAR749 or cover a Rotary meeting.BAR06 After he retired, Kirsten McMahon became publisher.
George was married to Kathy and the Webbs owned a big motor homeFtS40 and drove it to Florida more than once.BAR7108 FtS08 George would also "go out deer hunting, but Mike knew that sometimes, he didn't bother to take a rifle. It was an excuse to go out into the woods for a week or two with the gang, get away from his wife, drink beer, play cards, and tell tall stories."BAR796
George smoked a cigarette, but only on occasion. He kept a pack of cigarettes in the desk drawer for when it came time to think things out. "Greatest aid to concentration ever invented," he'd said; it was the only time he smoked.BAR751
It is unclear what, if any, relation he might be to Kathy Webb, someone that disliked what she saw as cruelty in dogsledding.RM1
