Friday’s newspaper showed up on your doorstep or in your email inbox just like it normally does, but getting it there this week was a scorching hot reminder of just how wonderful the community is that we live in.
Around 6 p.m. on Thursday, the newspaper was put to bed, so to speak. The articles were written. We had one last minute story change on the front page that pressed our deadlines, but it was nothing out of the ordinary for those of us in a deadline business.
The paper was designed and sent to our press in the back. We’ve got a hulking machine that will take the digital PDF you ready online and literally press it onto a thin sheet of metal. These plates are then used as the basis that feeds into the printer that produces the paper. About halfway through the process, there was the sound of a “pop” and the power went out. It isn’t the first time this has happened–heck it isn’t the first time this has happened in the last month–but it is still frustrating.
