Peekin’ into the past

Five Years Ago
May 14, 2015

After extensive remodeling at Olde Holyoke Square, Heidi’s Coffee & Bake Shop has relocated to 215 N. Interocean Ave. and opened for business this week.

Holyoke High School senior Taylor Goldenstein is one of two Colorado students to be awarded a four-year, full-ride scholarship to Colorado State University from Colorado Garden Foundation, a nonprofit corporation that provides funds for horticultural-related grants and scholarships in Colorado.

With an official release date of April 21, Hannah Conklin is the proud author of her first published novel, “Seed of Hope.” This 2011 Haxtun High School grad is the daughter of Bob and Theresa Conklin of Haxtun.

Financial discussion of the First Pioneer replat continued at the May 5 Holyoke City Council meeting, but no final agreement was made. Council members unanimously defeated a motion to accept Rupert and Claire O’Neal’s most recent proposal for a resolution.

Ten Years Ago
May 13, 2010

Glen McCallum recently started his own diesel repair business and brings 15 years of experience to the table. For the time being, he will be visiting your home, shop or field for diesel repair, but the hope is to be in his own building sometime later this year.

Holyoke sixth grade classes will return to the elementary school for the 2010-11 school year. An extensive study process involving meetings with parents and staff, as well as data study, led to the recommendation at the May 4 school board meeting.

HHS senior Duncan Brandt will attend the University of Colorado in the 2010-11 academic year on the Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship.

Twenty-Five Years Ago
May 18, 1995

For the first time ever, the Rocky Mountain Coursing Club will be holding sighthound field trials in the Holyoke area at Amherst Coursing Park (David Dirks’ residence) this weekend, May 20-21.

Paul and Laura Krogmeier have purchased The Book Stop from Judy and Clark Ginapp and will be relocating and renaming it. Inklings Book Store will be opening in mid-June in Olde Holyoke Square at 221 N. Interocean Ave.

Phillips and Sedgwick counties are looking into the possibility of implementing a crisis hotline for the two-county area. The hotline will cover domestic violence, child abuse and suicide intervention/prevention services. Volunteers will be needed to operate this 24-hour hotline.

Because it has been standing for 108 years and because it played a significant role in the history of Holyoke, as well as the expansion of the United States, the Burge Hotel, located at 230 N. Interocean Ave., is being considered by the State Register Review Board for nomination to the State Register of Historic Properties.

Fifty Years Ago
May 14, 1970

Misses Karen Stills and Becky Johnson, instructors in the Holyoke schools, will sponsor an outdoor education project for the eighth grade girls’ advanced physical education class. The project will be conducted at Bonny Reservoir May 15-17.

Melissa Memorial Hospital will be the recipient of a cardiac monitoring system and a training program for nursing personnel, from the Will Heginbotham Trust, of which Ray E. Crosby and Harry A. Peach are the trustees.

Seventy-Five Years Ago
May 17, 1945

The Holyoke municipal air field, which lies one-half mile east of town, is to be dedicated with appropriate program and activities on June 13, according to C.E. Channer, chairman of the committee appointed by Harold Ellis, president of the Lions Club, to arrange for the event. Pilots and their planes are being invited here from distant towns to properly demonstrate the runways and put into operation the airport facilities.

Mr. Whitney of Greeley, district engineer of the State Highway Department, was in Holyoke Tuesday and met with the Phillips County commissioners at the courthouse to discuss post-war road building. He explained that following the termination of the war, this state is to receive $3 million of federal money each year for a period of three years, which will be matched by a like amount of state funds.