Independent Undergoes New Printing Tansformation

Readers of the Holt County Independent will start to notice a change in their paper this week.

Due to aging printing equipment the publishers have decided to outsource the printing of the paper to a facility in western Iowa. This facility is a state-of-the-art printing plant and will increase the capabilities of the paper and its advertisers to better serve its readers.

Because of the travel time needed to ship the papers back to O'Neill, the deadlines of the paper will have to be moved up a day to facilitate the change.

Classifieds will need to be in by Monday at noon, Obituaries by 5:00 p.m. on Monday and Advertising by 5:00 p.m. on Monday. Holt County Independent correspondents will need to have their information to the paper by Monday morning at 8:00 a.m. The paper is e-mailed to the printers on Tuesday evening and should be back in O'Neill by early afternoon on Wednesday.

The Independent has been printed in O'Neill for the last 131 years, and this change will benefit the owners and more importantly, the subscribers of the paper.