A group of residents from Laconia’s Taylor Community recently visited the Monitor, where they received a tour of the facility.
The group, led by the Monitor’s Cathy Valley, was brought through the various departments where staff introduced them to the details of their function. Departments visited included the newsroom, marketing department, the stores department – where the raw materials used for printing are housed, and the production/printing department. Staff members were available at each stop to provide information and answer questions from the group.
The Monitor has been published continuously since 1864 and family owned since 1961. Their production now encompasses four daily and three weekly papers in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The Taylor group learned that the Monitor is contracted to print several additional papers, including their own local Laconia Daily Sun and Weirs Times.
Taylor Resident Laura Andrus said she “was impressed with the scope of the whole operation, the sister papers, the contracted papers and their determination to carry on in a changing environment.” She went on to state that she was “amazed at how few staff were actually needed to run the sophisticated machinery and how quiet the whole operations was – surprised that there were no “clacking machines or ringing phones.”