Stan Atkinson was seemingly larger than life.
Sacramento Bee reporter Bob Sylva called the longtime Sacramento news anchor “the man who owns Sacramento” in a 1986 profile. It stuck.
After Atkinson died Sunday, May 25, from natural causes at age 92, as reported the next day by both his former Sacramento stations — Channel 3 (KCRA) and Channel 13 (KOVR) — the larger-than-life figure, known for his charitable work and warm demeanor almost as much as his hard-hitting journalism, was mourned and celebrated…