I miss him too. I took my kids to meet him in 2010, April 4th in Albany. He died two months before my Dad did.
I watch for Josh and Jake, and for all the other guys.
I still dig the crabbies LOL
No I don’t have the actual old newspapers. I have the paper copies made from the microfilms. Sorry for any confusion, but that’s what I meant when I say paper copies.
And I just dug up my pdf’s and in looking through just a few pages with good sized lists, I may be wrong about the outlying island announcements getting printed - the names of some of these towns are so close to the names of a couple of the islands. All these double i’s and l’s, not to mention w’s !! I’ll look through more carefully with just that focus. It’ll take some time.