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ROMULUS, Mich. - The International Newspaper Group held its 2006 annual meeting in conjunction with a site visit to Detroit Newspaper Partnership’s $177 million plant expansion in nearby Sterling Heights.

Left to right, Dave Hunke, chief executive officer of Detroit Newspaper Partnership and publisher of Detroit Free Press; Mark Mikolajczyk, publisher of Florida Today in Melbourne; Kelly F. Benson, vice president of operations at the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel; and Chuck Blevins, principal of Chuck Blevins & Associates, following the opening session of ING. Photos: Newspapers & Technology
Peg Schmitz, vice president and general manager of publishing operations at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Larry Rutherford, manager of production planning and control at the Chicago Tribune.
Richard Palmer, president of Hall Contracting Services Inc., at the Henry Ford Museum tour the first day of the ING conference.   Mike Kady, president and chief executive officer of Quipp Systems Inc., and David E. Preisser, vice president of production at the Cincinnati Enquirer. Robert Wiedemann, vice president of sales for the web press division of MAN Roland in Augsburg, Germany. Reuben Grossberg, senior project manager and Steve Barber, principal, newspaper services architect of Forum Architects LLC, after checking out a classic at the Ford museum. Emma Isichei, director of Agfa Graphics' newspaper segment. Andy Ritchie, publisher of the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press, and Perry Nixdorf, vice president of operations at the Globe & Mail in Toronto. Hans C. Holenstein, vice president of marketing and Volker Leonhardt, general manager of sales and marketing, for Muller Martini, at their booth at IfraExpo last month. C. Doyle Sutherland, president of Global Web Systems. GWS unveiled new press at show (see page 28).