Trees bow down to high winds
Many Holyoke residents woke up Sunday morning, June 24, to large tree boughs littering their yards and streets, thanks to high winds and rain Saturday night.
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Statz involved statewide
Phillips County Treasurer Linda L. Statz was re-elected secretary of the Colorado County Treasurers’ Association at its annual conference Wednesday, June 20, in Steamboat Springs.
The horse-drawn wagon pictured in front is the J.W. Young dray. James W. Young went into the dray line business in 1899 and was also a dealer in coal, kerosene, gasoline and ice. The lumber company building in the background was one of the 80 businesses in existence at the time of Holyoke’s incorporation in 1888. — Source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin' into the Past
Five Years Ago
June 27, 2013
Vern “Pancake” Adams smokes his pipe while sitting atop a riding mower in Holyoke Cemetery. Adams is a member of the cemetery’s groundskeeper team, which is led by head groundskeeper Zeke Finch. — Johnson Publications
Cemetery offers residents an outlet for civic pride, window into past
Just off County Road 41, surrounded by farmland, one of Holyoke’s oldest institutions tells the story of the city’s oldest residents.