“Everything now is much more automated and digital,” Vodenichar said. The boss has witnessed many changes in 37 years at the Eagle. “We are the only one that is a legitimate news source,” Vodenichar said. He hopes those looking for the “real” news will continue to seek out the Eagle’s print or digital products, and not rely on social media account holders who proclaim themselves media outlets. Vodenichar also has appreciated watching the newspaper’s impact on its readers, as many have decided to participate in a community activity or charitable endeavor after reading an announcement or article in the Eagle. “We’ve outlived all other family-owned newspapers in Western Pennsylvania.” “The main thing is we’re still here,” he said. Regarding achievements during his long tenure at the Eagle, Vodenichar looks into the void once occupied by community newspapers in the region. “We owe a lot of our survival to the fact that we made that decision, and it was putting in the press in 2001 that enabled us to do that work,” Vodenichar said. Since the arrival of the modern printing press, the Eagle’s production center on West Wayne Street has printed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Erie Times Indiana Gazette Leader Times in Armstrong County newspapers from Warren and Youngstown, Ohio plus multiple weekly and monthly products, including many college newspapers. “At that time, we decided we either had to be a printer that prints the newspaper and other products, or we had to be printed somewhere else,” Vodenichar said. In 2001, the Wise family, which has owned the newspaper for 150 years, purchased a Goss Uniliner offset web press, which was ahead of its time in the printing industry. Ron Vodenichar, Butler Eagle publisher and president, left, shares a moment during the newspaper's 150th anniversary celebration with Addison Lanier and Jamie Wise Lanier, who is treasurer of Eagle Printing, during a March 2, 2020, event at the Eagle Production Center on West Wayne Street.
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