Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
March 8, 2012
    Holyoke Police Department is now back to full staff with the addition of a fourth officer, Larry Drake.
    HHS senior and three-time state champion wrestler Mark Edmonds will be competing in the Senior Nationals in Virginia Beach, Virginia, March 28-April 1.
    
Ten Years Ago
March 8, 2007
    Phillips County will hold a consignment farm auction April 3 at the Phillips County Fairgrounds. Commissions from the sale will go toward funding for the new Phillips County Event Center to be located at the fairgrounds.
    Melissa Memorial Hospital will welcome another doctor to its specialty clinics as Dr. James M. Swinehart begins dermatology clinics in Holyoke April 6.
    Holyoke was among five schools who sent two teams to compete in an Academic Bowl March 1 in Akron. Ending round one of competition in first place in their respective pools, Holyoke’s two teams met up with each other to compete for first and second place overall.
    Following many months of negotiations, the City of Grant, Nebraska, sold the former Jack’s Bean plant, which will be converted for biodiesel production.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago
March 12, 1992
    Police Officer Dale Emerson began his new duties with the City of Holyoke last week after he was offered the position by the local city council.
    The weather this week didn’t continue in the same fashion as past weeks. There was only one day that precipitation wasn’t recorded, and near the beginning of this week, a blizzard hit.
    Following an unproductive attempt to find people to serve on the Pleasant Valley Ball Board, the group is considering closing the Pleasant Valley Ballpark. The park, located southeast of Holyoke, turned 40 years old last season.
    Holyoke Volunteer Fire Department, the high school FFA chapter, HHS faculty and HHS students comprised four teams for Bob Crosby’s Donkey Basketball, sponsored by the Holyoke FFA chapter, March 7.
    
Fifty Years Ago
March 9, 1967
    Phillips County received some welcome moisture early this week as two snowstorms swirled across the region, but farmers are hoping for more precipitation to bring the winter wheat crop “out of the woods.”
    Three Holyoke youths — Gregory B. Trego, Lawrence E. Spohn and David O. Colver — will soon be recipients of coveted Eagle Scout awards.
    Charles C. Steward, superintendent of school District Re-1J for the past six years, has tendered his resignation to the board of education and plans to enroll at Colorado State College in Greeley next fall to complete work on a doctor’s degree in educational administration.
    The Holyoke Boy Scout first-aid team placed sixth in the Long’s Peak council’s First Aid-O-Ree held in Greeley last Sunday afternoon. There were 17 teams from throughout the council represented at the meet.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago
March 12, 1942
    Rev. B.H. Schrader of Denver, who has conducted services at the Church of Christ during the past month, was named as pastor Sunday evening by the church board. The call was accepted by Rev. Schrader.
    Bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, will be shown in pictures Monday evening, March 16, at the First Baptist Church in Holyoke.