Peekin' into the Past
Five Years Ago
March 8, 2018
Governors and attorneys general of Nebraska and Colorado announced a settlement of claims Feb. 22 regarding Colorado’s past use of water under the Republican River Compact. Under the agreement, Colorado will pay Nebraska $4 million for its overuse.
Kody Timm opened Spartan Electronics and Repair in January, opening an office located upstairs in the Peerless Center.
Ten Years Ago
March 7, 2013
Having received licensure for Holyoke Pharmacy on March 1, owners Jamie Hanes, Pharm.D., and Jason Burke announce they will be opening their local store later this month. Remodeling on the southwest corner of Holyoke Marketplace began in late October for the new pharmacy.
Branching out from their established business in Ogallala, Nebraska, Dickinson Land Surveyors Inc. opened a Holyoke office on the second floor of the Peerless Center on March 1.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
March 12, 1998
For the first time in several years, the Holyoke Police Department has been operating for a couple of months with only three officers. Occasionally, such as at budget time, there has been talk by the city council of cutting the force permanently back down to three. However, Roberta Tonsing of the council’s police committee indicated that the city is trying to get by with three officers while waiting for more qualified applicants to respond to the job opening.
The city of Holyoke is no longer in the tree business. The decision made at the March 3 meeting ends a practice that started after the big freeze of Halloween 1991, when the city tried to help keep the cost down for the many residents who needed to have dead trees removed. The city contracted a price with a tree trimmer and hauled the trees away at no charge. Now, years later, the city has still been hauling away tree refuse.
Fifty Years Ago
March 8, 1973
Plans are being made to establish a walking blood bank for Holyoke, to be used at Melissa Memorial Hospital, under the sponsorship of the Holyoke Lions Club. The hospital will continue to receive their blood supply from the Cheyenne, Wyoming, blood bank and will use the walking blood bank only in extreme emergencies.
The $110 million Eisenhower Tunnel under Loveland Pass will be opened to the public today.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
March 11, 1948
A high school band festival for northeastern Colorado is scheduled to be held in Yuma on March 20 at the high school auditorium. Yuma will be host to Haxtun, Holyoke, Wray, Akron and Burlington in the first music festival of its kind in this territory for many years.
The sub-zero temperatures that have hovered over this community for the past week may finally be broken today, as the weather bureau reported that the cold wave was moving east and south and predicted warmer weather Thursday. Last night, the mercury dropped to 19 below.