Peekin’ into the past

Five Years Ago

Oct. 27, 2016

Holyoke City Council approved a wage increase for the Holyoke Police Department at the Oct. 18 meeting.

Jeremiah Krieger, pastor at First Baptist Church in Holyoke, was shot through the right forearm after a neighboring shooter’s weapon misfired in a fluke accident at the Phillips County Gun Range the afternoon of Oct. 22.

El Buen Sazón is getting a fresh new flavor after it transitioned ownership from Efrain and Lily Becerra to Miny Martinez on Oct. 17. The Becerras have been running the Mexican restaurant at 116 N. Interocean Ave. in Holyoke for the past nine years.

Ten Years Ago

Oct. 27, 2011

Traffic traveling through Holyoke’s school zone on Highway 385 will be reminded of their speed in the coming months. Holyoke City Council members voted Oct. 18 to purchase one radar speed sign at a cost of roughly $5,000. Under the agreement, Holyoke will purchase one sign, while the state will purchase the second one.

Appointed by trustees David Colver and John Schneider, Mary Louise Evans is the newest member to serve Phillips County on the three-member Heginbotham Trust.

The most significant changes in weight classes in high school wrestling in 23 years will take place in the 2011-12 season. At its April 4-6 meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, the National Federation of State High School Associations Wrestling Rules Committee approved an upward shift of the weight classes. It begins with the 103-pound class moving to 106 pounds, which resulted in new weights for 10 of the 14 classes.

A five-member Holyoke High School team recently returned from the National Organizations for Youth Safety’s 2011 National Teen Distracted Driving Summit in Washington, D.C. While there, they tackled solutions for the dangerous behavior of texting while driving and other distracted driving habits.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Oct. 31, 1996

Holyoke City Council has chosen an alternate location to move the main water well. Council members unanimously approved the alternate location at a special meeting Oct. 25. The utilities committee recommended the city move the well to 935 S. Sherman Ave. from its current location at the municipal building at 207 W. Denver St. The current well at the city building has high nitrate levels, and the city will see if the water in the new location has lower nitrate levels.

After two years in the works, the bike path in Holyoke officially opened Oct. 23 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the ballpark. Work on the path, which extends from the ballpark to the Lions Club fishing pond, was completed July 31, with the bridge being the final touch.

A male individual staying at the Golden Plains Motel in Holyoke was stabbed twice in the chest by a sharp, pointy object early Tuesday morning, Oct. 29. The man was taken to a Greeley hospital, and his current status is unknown.

Fifty Years Ago

Oct. 28, 1971

A gunman entered the office of the Cedar Motel and at the point of a gun demanded money from Jodi Smith, granddaughter of the owner, Vincent Dunn. The robbery occurred at approximately 7:20 p.m. Oct. 25. Miss Smith gave the gunman approximately $30, and when demands for additional cash from her failed, he knocked her down and fled.

An employment service is now being set up at the high school. It will coordinate students with businessmen in and around Holyoke and give students part-time jobs after school and on weekends.

The recycling of old car bodies has been resumed at the old town dump, along with the cleanup of old car bodies around the area. Phillips County, Highline Electric and Town of Holyoke trucks will make an effort to pick up old cars and haul them to the dump.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Oct. 31, 1946

The Holyoke FFA chapter won the Bronze Emblem Award in the National FFA Chapter Contest. The results were announced at the National FFA convention held in Kansas City, Missouri, Oct. 21-24. Bronze Emblem Award chapters are those that rate third-high in the nation’s FFA chapters.

A radar-guided glider bomb used successfully in combat during the war will become an important, permanent part of the peacetime Navy. Having perfected the “Bat” as a full-fledged service weapon, the Navy has launched a program to train fleet aircraft personnel on the technical and operational use of the weapon.