Printing Plant Fire Cheats Last Local Paper Out of its Last Edition

Article in the New York Times by Cory Kilgannon, 4/26/23

Headline:  “A Newspaper Was Planning Its Last Edition. Then the Press Caught Fire.”


“. . . but on Monday morning, Ms. Baranauckas received an email with some troubling news: There had been a fire at the printing plant in Rockaway, N.J.

“Gannett would not comment on the Local’s situation but did release a statement saying that there were no injuries in the fire. ‘Two printing presses sustained damage and some production schedules were impacted,’ it said.

“For the Local, alternatives were scarce; it’s not so easy to find someone to print a newspaper these days. But Ms. Baranauckas was resolute.

“We will figure out a way to do it,” she said. “If I have to print it out on my home printer and walk it door to door, that’s what I’ll do.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/nyregion/montclair-local-newspaper-fire.html