Scott Lebar

Sharon Bernstein covers criminal justice. Jake Goodrick covers Sutter County. And Annika Merrilees covers business.

The A’s are coming to West Sacramento, but our relationships with sports are never simple.

The moon race of the ‘60s has transformed into a race to the auction block, with Sotheby’s currently touting videotapes of Neil Armstrong’s and Buzz Aldrin’s 1969 walk in the Sea of Tranquility, saying they are so unusual they could fetch $2 million.

My father sort of communicated with me after he died in 2009 with messages to remind me who he was. At about 3:50 p.m. daily, the algorithms of time and programs, and the invisible circuity of the immediate communications world he helped create, would tell me he was gone.

This story was published on July 19, 2009. Scott Lebar wrote about his father, whose TV camera transmitted astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. Stan Lebar died in December 2009.

This story was published on July 20, 1999. Scott Lebar wrote about his father, whose TV camera transmitted astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. Stan Lebar died in December 2009.

Sacramento Bee photographer and videographer Manny Crisostomo is not a selfie kind of guy. I do have a picture of him and colleague Lezlie Sterling hard at work – sitting, heads leaning together, eyes closed, pretending to sleep while they waited for the outcome of the surgery of conjoined twins Erika and Eva Sandoval. In jest, he did a rare thing, asking reporter Sammy Caiola to turn the camera around on him. He is a funny kind of guy.