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The end of an era as Times plant prints its final papers

The end of an era as Times plant prints its final papers
CLAIRE MCNEILL, The Tampa Bay Times
March 6, 2021
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — An old analog clock, hung crooked over the rolls of newsprint, let the night’s sparse crew know they had time yet until deadline. On a Saturday night, nearing 8 o’clock, it was still quiet in the reel room, beneath the dormant presses.
Ladda Peterson laid a pattern of red tape on the blank, white bales, setting them up for an unbroken scroll. The halls were hollow as staffers burned vacation time, but like everybody still here, she was used to making do with less. As always, the press crew was ready: “Bombs” of ink, thick and pungent as classroom paint, were hooked up. Ribbons of paper were strung along rollers. And the next day’s pages were beginning to arrive.

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Meet some of the longtime staffers who brought you the Tampa Bay Times

Ladda Peterson, nearly 24 years
Press Craft Operator II
A quarter-century of nights, of lunches taken after dark. Of waiting for plates in the beginning and scraping ink off the presses at the end. âI havenât painted my nails in, oh, 20-something years,â said Ladda Peterson, 54. Ink gets under the nails and bond solution ruins the paint. âIâm going to paint my nails every other day.â
Her parents fled from Laos during the Vietnam War and ended up in a refugee camp. Years later, Peterson followed family to Florida, where the weather recalled home. She needed health insurance for her and her daughter, even if that meant shifts that stretched into 3 or 4:30 a.m. She met her husband here. She watched the place grow, grow, grow, and shrink. âIâm proud. We had come so far,â she said. âThis is all I know.â

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The end of an era as Tampa Bay Times plant prints its final papers

The end of an era as Tampa Bay Times plant prints its final papers
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