My father worked for ADN starting in '96 and I remember as a kid spending a lot of time around the ADN press (and the press room of his previous job). ADN had the largest press of any, and it was like watching a construction operation, complete with equipment. I remember marveling that the little bundle that was the newspaper came from rolls 6 feet wide that had to be moved by forklift to load them onto the press.
I probably met a lot of these men and women back then (its been too long, and I was too young to remember names), and I'm sad that it's shutting down ending in some cases a literal lifetime of work for these folks.