Speculation is mounting that Minnesota's St. Cloud Times is about to announce plans that it will shutter its press, and move production to the Gannett Offset site, 51 miles southeast, in the suburban Minneapolis community of Maple Grove.Citing a reported employee meeting yesterday, a tipster says printing may cease in St. Cloud on June 26. "Eleven press people are said to be losing their jobs,'' my tipster says, adding, no one knew if the reported move would "trickle down" to mailroom or packaging.
Only Sunday, the Coloradoan silenced the roar of its "mighty beast," printing its last issue at Fort Collins, and shifting production to the Denver Newspaper Agency. It became the ninth GCI paper to junk a press in the past 18 months.
St. Cloud 148 years old
It launched in June 1861 as the Minnesota Union. Today's paper:
- President/Publisher: William Albrecht
- Executive Editor: John Bodette
- Joined Gannett: 1977
- Circulation: daily, 25,376; Sunday 35,176
[Yesterday's front page, Newseum]
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