The United States Commerce Department last week softened tariffs on Canadian newsprint that were instituted in January, although newspaper businesses nationwide—including this one—continue to feel the effects of elevated paper costs.
“It’s basically screwed up everything,” said Joe Vetter, who for two decades has owned Healdsburg Printing, which prints the Light and six other North Bay weeklies. Mr. Vetter has been in the printing business since the ’80s and said he hasn’t seen prices this…