Napa Valley Register Bids Farewell to Massive Printing Press
Publisher Brenda Speth likens dismantled Gross Urbanite to an aircraft carrier.
There is a wonderful analogy articulated in Napa Valley Register city editor Kevin Courtney’s account of the end of the in-house printing era at his Northern California newspaper.
In the wake of a 2014 earthquake, the paper’s damaged headquarters has been sold for redevelopment and the damaged printing press redirected to a junkyard:
This is a sad moment, said Register publisher Brenda Speth, who likened the removal of the press to the “decommissioning of an aircraft carrier” — an event capable of bringing tears to those who served aboard her.
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