How do i check archives for local newspapers dating back to 1997?
Newspapers used to keep hard copies of their papers for a number of years, but scanning technology and the Internet made that unnecessary. Now, most of them keep no more than one to two months on-hand. They more likely have those papers on disk and in archives on the Internet. I’d start at the local paper in question. Give them a call and find out what they have available. There will almost certainly be a cost, but it’s not usually more than a few dollars. If you strike out there, then you can go to the local library and see what they have. The last resort is the Internet — the depth of newspaper archives available there is still pretty thin.
