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Goodbye, Christine.
That was the farewell when Winnemucca Publishing’s press made its final run earlier this month after more than 40 years of service.
“We call it Christine, with much respect and trembling,” said Managing Editor Carmen Kofoed. “It’s both an impressively complicated machine and a simple design. It’s a marvel!”
I don’t know much about presses, but I do know they tend to have a mind of their own — and, quite possibly, an evil one at that.
The 40-foot Goss Community press has been printing the Humboldt Sun and, in more recent years, the Battle Mountain Bugle and Lovelock Review-Miner, all owned by Winnemucca Publishing.
But the age of the press, coupled with the difficulty of finding skilled printers willling to move to rural Nevada, led the company to decide to switch the printing operation to the Sierra Nevada Media Group’s presses at the Nevada Appeal in Carson City.
“Thank you for all the years of ink and sweat,” wrote reporter Cheryl Upshaw. “We’ll miss you.”
