What kind of an effect will this project have on our community, our readers and our advertisers? While it would be impossible to envision all the aspects, one thing is clear — there will be many changes. We are working to ensure that all of these changes make our products more valuable to our readers and advertisers, and that we remain a positive contributor to our community.

With a new press in place, the size of the newspapers will change. The new size is more portable, and easier to handle, reflecting the trend in our industry. Our ability to print the newspapers more quickly will allow our newspapers to have later deadlines, thus allowing them to capture later details on breaking stories.

These two changes alone have a rippling effect of changes throughout nearly every department of the newspapers, and will result in a different – and hopefully richer — reader and advertiser experience. These are but two changes that we will immediately see with the new press, and there are many, many more. Perhaps the change we’re most excited about is color. We’ll be more colorful than you’ve ever experienced with us before! Rich, vibrant, colorful news and information that makes your newspaper reading more enjoyable.

In order to look forward, we’ve taken a lot of time to look back. We’ve looked at what areas worked well and what areas need improvement. We’ve studied how other newspapers have implemented similar changes with a new press. We’ve borrowed many of their best ideas, and learned from their mistakes.

What you’ll find here is what we know now and what we envision for the future of our products centering on this new press and press facility. We’ll update this area as we nail down the details on future developments.