MINNEAPOLIS – The smell of ink, paper, oil and metal clung to the air. Shredded newspaper dangled from a milelong stretch of conveyors that shuttled millions of pages every week.
After decades of work and generations of history, the Minnesota Star Tribune has stopped the presses at its Heritage Center printing plant in Minneapolis. The plant’s last newspaper was printed Dec. 28.
In September, the Star Tribune announced plans to sell the North Loop plant, lay off 125 workers and move printing to Des Moines to save money as print circulation continues to decline…