Avoid a visit from the Grinch this Christmas
With the holiday season here, Holyoke Police Department would like to remind everyone to take a few precautions to avoid a visit from the Grinch.
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Haxtun choir to perform Sunday
Haxtun Community Choir invites community members to its Christmas celebration of praise. The choir will be performing “Joy! He Shall Reign” Sunday, Dec. 15, at 3 p.m.
Cliff Dwellers to present ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Cliff Dwellers Acting and Singing Society has been working since September to bring the community a Christmas production — “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Jay Ca
Recipe Train
According to fans of Jennifer Kumm’s biscotti recipe, “It doesn’t feel like Christmastime until we’ve had biscotti!” She said her friends and her coworkers at Holyoke Veterinary Service love for he
This May 1888 photo shows the Gordon House, built on the southwest corner of Denver Street and Baxter Avenue by Miss Lizzie Gordon, opening Feb. 5, 1888, at an expense of over $7,000. Rooms could be rented for $100 per month. In 1886, in her mid-20s, Gordon filed a claim on a piece of land in Logan County that later became part of the Holyoke townsite. In 1887, she sold the land to the Lincoln Land Company, and the town was platted and lots were sold. When she sold the land, she agreed to put up a building, and the two-story hotel was erected, with W.H. Moore as the first proprietor. The Gordon House held frequent balls and lavish dinners, and although Holyoke had nine saloons when the hotel first opened, no liquor was served at this first-class hotel. Later dubbed “The Bee Hive,” the building was torn down in February 1930. — source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago — Dec. 4, 2014