Yesterdays: Plum Creek no more
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The Coram water tower, February, 1966.
70 years ago
Feb. 24, 1956
Roy Anders took a bulldozer to the snow behind the schools and then flooded a low spot for an ice skating rink. The city council thanked him for it. Renowned Whitefish photographer Marion Lacy was offering a beginning class in photography. He came to the valley in 1944 and first worked as a lookout at Huckleberry Lookout in Glacier Park.
60 years ago
Feb. 25, 1966
Columbia Falls businesses were interested in burglar alarm systems that would ring right into the Columbia Falls Police Department. There was a big pre-bid conference for construction of the Libby Dam.
50 years ago
Feb. 26, 1976
Blurring the lines between editorial and opinion content, editor Mel Ruder had a front page story where he opposed drilling for oil and gas up the North Fork of the Flathead River. He also ran an editorial written by a member of the Rainbow Family, a gathering of young people at the time who wanted to camp in Glacier Park by the thousands, on the front page as well. Editorials are typically not run on the front page of newspapers.
40 years ago
Feb. 26, 1986
After a 12-year absence, radio personality G. George Ostrom’s column returned to the pages of the Hungry Horse News. Ostrom would write a column into the 2010s for the newspaper, though later years were re-runs.
30 years ago
Feb. 22, 1996
As many as 1,000 people were expected to lace up their shoes and go for a walk in Glacier Park later in the spring to raise money to restore the park’s backcountry chalets at Sperry and Granite Park.
20 years ago
Feb. 23, 2006
Four local men, David Restivo, Tim Gilk, Bill Hayden and Dave Yeats were recognized by the Park Service for their innovation in bringing webcams, e-hikes and podcasts to the general public from Glacier National Park.
10 years ago
Feb. 24, 2016
Plum Creek was no more. After a merger with Weyerhaeuser was finalized, the purple Plum Creek signs at mills and offices were coming down. Two mills would shutter in Columbia Falls and most of the administrative staff at the Cedar Palace, Plum Creek’s office’s here, also lost their jobs. The Cedar Palace is a medical complex today.