Morgan Philips
Kayla Marshall
Marshall, Philips are Daniels Scholars
Kayla Marshall and Morgan Philips, seniors at Holyoke High School, have been named Daniels Scholarship recipients.
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Register for summer ball teams by April 20
Holyoke students should be bringing home from school a registration form for the City of Holyoke summer recreation program. Copies are also available at the City office, 407 E.
Jerry Sonnenberg to back hospital provider fee change
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
Becker is adamant that raising sales tax is not the solution
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
Peekin' into the Past
Five Years Ago
March 29, 2012