While conservative lawmakers are squabbling about how to finance an immediate need for $3.5 billion for transportation projects, one of their own has quietly been working on a solution that will ta
Lawmakers at state Capitol are hoping this will be the year that they can find a compromise to fund a multi-billion-dollar list of transportation projects statewide.
James W. Young was a dealer in coal, kerosene, gasoline and ice in the late 1800s to early 1900s. He had a large reservoir kept full of water by a windmill. Before the days of refrigerators, ice was harvested during the winter months and was stored in ice houses and later delivered to people so they could keep their perishable foods during the hot summer months. Young’s daughter, Olive Peach, recalled her parents talking of the drought and blizzards which swept the plains in the early days, probably much like the blizzard shown in this photo. —Phillips County Museum
Five Years Ago
March 29, 2012
Sometimes playing with the worms is more fun than waiting for the fish to bite. David Fu inspects a wiggly worm that’s destined for a fishing hook at the Lions Fishin’ Hole last Friday. —Johnson Publications
Seventh-grader Koby Way practices his casting with a fly rod at Friday’s fishing clinic. He was one of 18 kids who took advantage of the opportunity to learn the basics of fishing. —Johnson Publications
Spring break ushered in spring a little early, with temps reaching 87 degrees in Holyoke over the weekend.
A tragedy with wide-ranging impacts struck the Yuma County community Monday afternoon, March 13, when a teenager was killed and three other people were seriously injured in an accident on Highw
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