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The First National Bank building was constructed at the southeast corner of the Denver/Interocean intersection (currently the Lions Club Mini Park north of Scheunemann’s). Opening day at the new up-to-date bank building was Dec. 3, 1910. Other areas of the building included office rooms, a barber shop in the basement and a lodge in the upper story. Holyoke’s main intersection was dominated by banks in the early 1900s, with the Farmers and Merchants Bank on the southwest corner and the Citizens State Bank on the northwest corner. Sometime later it became Phillips County State Bank, among other businesses. The building was gutted by fire Feb. 15, 1978, when it housed Ralph’s Bar. — Source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin' into the Past
Five Years Ago
July 26, 2012
Freestyle motocross trick bikes are scheduled to return to Phillips County Raceway after the stock car races Friday, July 28, for fair entertainment. —Johnson Publications
Bikes, bulls and races make for 'A Barn Raising Good Time'
Bulls Gone Wild, stock car races and freestyle motocross bikes pave the way for “barn-raising good times” Friday-Saturday, July 28-29, at the Phillips County Fair.
Robbie Doman, a 2001 HHS grad from Amherst, transitions from one ring to the next in the ring swing in Monday night’s episode of American Ninja Warrior. —American Ninja Warrior | "Denver Qualifier" | Photo by Dustin Bradford, NBC.
Robbie Doman served in the Army from 2001-2013. In 2008 while on tour in Iraq, he was severely injured in an IED attack, requiring 14 surgeries and five years of physical therapy.
HHS grad’s ‘impossible comeback story’ told on Ninja Warrior
Did you “witness one American hero’s impossible comeback story” Monday, July 17, as the dramatic, nationally televised commercial for American Ninja Warrior promised?
Rich Mulligan scopes out a putt on the new Mulligan Course, named after his father, at Ballyneal Golf Club. —Johnson Publications
Jim Roberts of Wray prepares to putt at the new Mulligan Course at Ballyneal Golf Club. Owner John Curlander, pictured at left, and Rich Mulligan joined him in the first round of golf at the opening ceremony. —Johnson Publications
12 new holes now open
“Charlie loved Ballyneal; it was his second family.” Myrna Mulligan seemed right at home herself as she took in the opening ceremony of the new golf course that honors her late husband.