Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
Aug. 11, 2016

Jen and Lucas Hayes recently purchased Olde Holyoke Square, 221 N. Interocean Ave., from Dylon and Brittany Daniel. The bookstore will continue to operate as Storybrooke, Ink while the Hayeses rearrange, remodel and bring in new inventory. A big grand opening under the name Inklings and More is planned for Oct. 1.

Three days before his 22nd birthday, Brett Cumming got the gift of a lifetime — a new liver.

Ten Years Ago
Aug. 11, 2011

Merle Powell is the new minister at First Christian Church in Holyoke. He officially began his job Aug. 1.

Velma Biddle, longtime Holyoke resident, celebrated her 102nd birthday with flair and enthusiasm in Boulder last weekend with family members.

HHS science teacher Ashley Clayton was recently recognized at the 2011 Boettcher Foundation Teacher Recognition Awards Program. 2011 Boettcher scholar Mallory Bennett nominated Clayton as a teacher who has made a significant contribution to her growth and education and impacted her life.

Four teams participated in the inaugural Farm Olympics at the Phillips County Fair on July 30. Each team was made up of four members, and the teams had to complete seven events ranging from stacking hay bales, driving a golf cart blindfolded and pulling tissues out of a Kleenex box.

Twenty-Five Years Ago
Aug. 15, 1996

An ordinance pertaining to disturbing the peace was adopted 6-1 at the Aug. 6 Holyoke City Council meeting. The ordinance calls for fine or imprisonment of anyone who maliciously or willfully disturbs the peace of the public, neighborhood, family or individual.

A new business which rents out and sells natural spring water units has come to Holyoke. Water Works, a side business of Sullivan’s Appliance & Air in Holyoke, offers 5-gallon bottles of water and water dispenser units.

Colorado children entering kindergarten or seventh grade will have to have the Hepatitis B vaccine before they can start school in 1997, according to a new immunization requirement recently passed by the Colorado State Board of Health.

Fifty Years Ago
Aug. 12, 1971

Approximately $1,100 in cash was taken from an office desk drawer at the Holyoke 66 service station sometime between Thursday night, Aug. 5, and early Friday morning, Aug. 6. Entry into the station was made by breaking the ventilation window behind the ice machine.

Veterinarians will soon be able to obtain supplies of a vaccine recently approved by the United States Department of Agriculture for control of horse sleeping sickness caused by the Venezuelan strain of encephalomyelitis. This disease recently entered Texas from Mexico and has caused extensive death losses among horses there.

Seventy-Five Years Ago
Aug. 15, 1946

The resignation of Henry T. Gassert from the position of light and water superintendent for the town of Holyoke was presented at the last meeting of the town board. Mr. Gassert has served this city 30 years in the light, water and street departments. He has leased the Sinclair Refining Bulk Plant here and will personally operate it.

Effective Aug. 16, the Post Office Department has established and approved the delivery of Parcel Post by the city carrier in Holyoke. The schedule will be as follows: Immediately after the foot delivery of letter mail to the business section, the carrier will deliver all parcels to the business section. The delivery of parcels to the residential section will be made after the carrier has completed his delivery of letter mail in the afternoon.

The sudden sickness of Ernest Burns and his death Saturday due to a disease formerly called infantile paralysis and definitely diagnosed as the same, now termed poliomyelitis, has caused widespread alarm in this community. Neighboring counties and neighboring states having reported cases makes the situation mildly epidemic at least and requires that measures be taken to prevent new cases from developing.

On Tuesday a part of the foundation cement was poured into forms which make up the deep base for a new grain elevator at Amherst which is being built by farmers of the community under a cooperative plan. The capacity of the new structure will be 200,000 bushels of grain stored in eight tanks of “silos” and a half of another one. There will be 22 bins for the various kinds and classes of grain.