page_title: The Saguache Crescent
section_title: Present day
hierarchical_section_title: The Saguache Crescent / Present day
caption_attribution_description: Suomi: Linotype-ladontakone mediamuseo Rupriikissa Tampereella. Kone on ollut Aamulehden käytössä 1950-luvulla. English: Linotype "line casting" machine in Rupriikki Media Museum, Tampere, Finland. The machine was used by the local newspaper Aamulehti in 1950's.
context_page_description: The Saguache Crescent is a weekly newspaper published in Saguache, Colorado, notable for continuing to use linotype long after most newspapers have adopted more modern production methods.
context_section_description: Publisher Dean Coombs is the paper's entire staff. The Saguache Crescent was purchased by the Coombs family  in 1917, and it has been in the family for three generations. It still uses a 1921 linotype machine to set the print, and a 1921 printing press. It features a decorative masthead, no photos, sells for 35 cents a copy, and publishes "all the good news fit to print"; Coombs refuses to print bad news.  He says that his mother set that policy and it is non-negotiable.
  The only task that Coombs does not handle himself is that of reporter, Saguache residents bring the news to him: "If you bring it, and it's not just absolute insanity, and you want to sign your name to it, then I'll generally print it" he says.  Coombs must function as repairman as well; as old machines come up for sale he buys them to keep on hand for spare parts.
  
  Saguache is the Saguache County seat and the Crescent is the official newspaper of record for Saguache County.  With only about 550 residents, the paper does not generate much income from commercial advertising; Coombs says that income from the county's paid legal notices is all that keeps the paper afloat.
caption: Linotype machine
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