On Thursday evenings, the Vineyard Gazette pressroom hums with activity. The press crew is everywhere, guiding the Goss Community Press through its weekly print run.

It’s a familiar sight and sound, one that hasn’t changed much in the last 50 years, when the Goss Community Press first arrived at 34 South Summer street, on April 18, 1975.

It completed its first print run on May 9, 1975.

To honor the hardworking machine’s 50th birthday, the Gazette is hosting a special Tuesdays in the Newsroom event on Sept. 9, where the community is invited to learn about the history of the press and watch it in action. The event was rescheduled from the spring.

Pressmen Music Moreau and Jim Pfeiffer will be on hand to give a tour of the pressroom and talk about the intricacies and oddities of keeping a 50-year-old machine, which takes up a good portion of the Gazette’s ground floor, in operation each week.

Hilary Wallcox, the Gazette librarian, will take the audience even further back, touching on the whole history of printing the Gazette, which dates back to 1846.

The event runs from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 9. There is no charge but an RSVP is requested. Register in advance at [email protected].