Heres your look at this week in Loveland history from the archives of the Reporter-Herald: 10 Years Ago • Around 500 people attended the groundbreaking for the Medical Center of the Rockies hospital. • After eight months of renovation due to dry rot, the Fireside Gallery in the Loveland Museum/Gallery reopened to the public. • The Picnic Rock fire in the Poudre Canyon reached 8,900 acres, making it the second-largest fire in Larimer County history. • Owners of the Eckerd Drug Store chain announced they would get out of the drug store business, leaving a partially constructed building in Loveland in limbo. 25 Years Ago • Citizens expressed concerns about a proposed U.S. Forest Service controlled burn near Homestead Meadows, worrying the fire would not be worth the potential risk to the historic homestead structures. • The Thompson School District board of education voted to move ninth-graders to the district’s high schools and sixth-graders to junior high schools to ease overcrowding. • Residents in the area of 37th Street and Colorado Avenue met with city engineers to come up with ways to fix an “S” curve that caused problems for drivers who sometimes jumped the curb and drove into yards. Residents asked the city to install a landscaped berm. • A feasibility study looking at remodeling options for the Pulliam Building outlined three options: doing nothing, a modified renovation that would range from $200,000 to $450,000 and a full renovation that could cost as much as $750,000. 50 Years Ago • The biggest snowstorm of the year caused some problems with telephone service in Loveland, and telephone crews from as far away as Pueblo were called to the city to begin making fixes. • Local state patrolmen began riding Loveland area school buses to catch motorists who failed to stop when the bus lights were flashing. • The Thompson R2-J School Board announced it would close the Lincoln School at Fourteenth Street and Lincoln Avenue at the end of the school year.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:00:01 +0000
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