They oversee a full-time staff of eight. But after seeing this paper, I discovered this is what community journalism is all about. Started by a local grocery store owner in 1986 and named after rock formations in a nearby state park, the Pinnacle is delivered free to every home in San Benito County -a rapidly growing county of 46,000 just south of San Jose. In mid-November, a deal was signed. We didn't know how to put out a newspaper.
Cone reports on high school sports, city government and town events.
A California native, Cone is not worried about the competition the Pinnacle faces from her former employer, which is making a push into the county, and from Hollister's Free Lance a 4,500-circulation local paper published five times a week. However, she has plenty more to contemplate now that she's running her own paper.