ROCKLAND (AP) — A news company that publishes four weekly or semiweekly newspapers in Maine is outsourcing is printing operations and laying off 17 employees.
Village NetMedia CEO Richard Anderson said the company closed its printing plant in Rockland effective Tuesday and will have its papers published at the Sun Journal Media Group printing facility in Lewiston. Village NetMedia publishes The Herald Gazette, The Republican Journal, The Bar Harbor Times and Capital Weekly.
Anderson said the company’s newspaper presses are more than 40 years old and in need of costly repairs.
The company is offering severance pay to the 15 full-time and two part-time employees who are losing their jobs.
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