Pat Hampton
Publisher

pat@calistogatribune.com

From the day she stepped into the Journalism 1 class in high school and after earning her bachelor’s degree in journalism at San Jose State College, publisher Pat Hampton knew she was born to be a newspaper reporter.

Moving  to Calistoga in 1985, she worked on The Weekly Calistogan for nine years under the Brenner family before a new publisher and she parted company in 1998. Four years later, friends and family asked her to start another newspaper for Calistogans who wanted more and better coverage than they were getting at the time. She would still rather be a reporter than a publisher, but somebody had to do it.

Kim Beltran
Editor

kim@calistogatribune.com

Kim was trained to be a reporter at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Journalism, and has spent the last 24 years chronicling the Napa Valley’s issues and its residents.

From her days as a news and sports reporter at the Brenner family-owned St. Helena Star, she moved to the editing side of the newspaper business at the then Scripps-owned Napa Valley Register, where she became City Editor in charge of local news coverage.

When former Star co-worker Pat Hampton called her in 2002 asking if she’d like to help start a new Calistoga newspaper, Kim happily accepted the opportunity to return to her small town reporter roots.

Ellen Smith,
Advertising

ellen@calistogatribune.com

Ellen Smith has been in graphic design all of her working life. For many years she was employed as a junior, and then senior designer at firms specializing in corporate design and advertising. In the mid-80s she formed a design partnership in San Francisco that continued for 20 years. It was during this period that advertising sales also became a necessary part of her career path. Upon the sale of her business and subsequent move to Calistoga, she found a happy home at the Calistoga Tribune. There she was able to continue using the skills she had acquired, but in a new and welcoming environment. Working on design projects with the Tribune’s many fine clients is both interesting and challenging, and for her, extremely rewarding.

Michelle Wing
Staff Writer/Production

michelle@calistogatribune.com

Michelle Wing worked on her high school and college newspapers in Montana, then went off in various other directions before returning to journalism as a staff writer at the Calistoga Tribune shortly after it was established in the summer of 2002. She has an English and history degree from Montana State University, and a master’s degree in Japanese studies from the University of Washington. She is a published poet, essayist and short story writer, and a lover of languages, having studied Japanese, Spanish, and Korean. In addition to news and feature stories, she writes movie reviews and an occasional column, Wingin’ It, for the Tribune.

Yvonne Henry
Photographer

yvonneh@covad.net

Yvonne Henry is fine art photographer who loves mysteries and Calistoga. This partially explains her dedication to the weekly mystery photo which appears in the Calistoga Tribune.

Yvonne is also the Calistoga representative to the Napa County Arts and Culture Commission and a member of the Open Studios Advisory Committee for Arts  Council Napa Valley.

You can see more of her work at http://www.whimsyworks.net

Chick Harrity
Photography Coach

charrity@covad.net

Chick Harrity has been a photo-
journalist for over 50 years, 33 of them in Washington, D.C. covering the White House for the Associated Press and US News & World Report magazine.  On April Fools day of 2001 he left US News to move to Calistoga, where he was introduced to Pat Hampton when she was planning to start the Tribune. He foolishly volunteered to help and is now the Photo Coach and occasional contributing photographer. You can see more of his work at http://www.whimsyworks.net