1934 New Year’s Flood and the Years After After the disaster of the big flood there was much work to do. The Red Cross provided the bulk of the relief efforts for survivors, bringing in food, medical supplies and temporary shelter. Service groups from the valley were extremely active, although their numbers were small – […]
V E Day, 70 years later Tomorrow, May 8, will be the 70th anniversary of V E Day, marking the end of the Second World War in Europe. Adolph Hitler had committed suicide on April 30, as Allied Forces were entering Berlin. Officials of Nazi Germany’s Third Reich signed a military surrender […]
Hi, CV! Bloomington, Ind. (AP) – Authorities have filed preliminary murder charges against a man in the death of an Indiana University student whose body was found in a rural area not long after she was reported missing. State Police Sgt. Curt Durnil says 49-year-old Daniel E. Messel of Bloomington was arrested Friday in the […]
The Morning After the 1934 New Years Flood As New Year’s Day broke through a drizzle, scenes of devastation were revealed. The flashflood of the night before had bulldozed straight across the valley from the canyons – Hall-Beckley, Pickens, Goss, Shields, Ward, Dunsmore and Cook – clearing hundred-yard wide paths through neighborhoods. Those in houses […]
Saving Water, But Paying More Clean, reliable water is a basic human need and fundamental to our way of life. Most people do a good job conserving this precious resource, but still see their water bills going up – why? The short answer is that rate increases are driven by the need to replace old […]
Carry ID At All Times An elderly man collapsed in the street in front of my house at 7 a.m. [last week]. He went down hard, hit his head on the pavement, was bleeding from the impact and was unresponsive. A neighbor was walking her dog, saw the man fall and shouted for help. I […]
Hi, CV! To summarize last week’s talks: Hi, my name is Dan* and I’m an alcoholic. Hi, my name is Tina and I love the teenage brain. A grant due date and moving have me behind the 8 ball. Here’s an assignment written by my daughter; she got 22/25: I volunteered for CV Alliance, a […]
In the Darkness After the 1934 New Years Flood The great flood of New Year’s 1934 came and went in a matter of minutes. A couple of weeks of steady rain in late December had set the stage for a massive surge of rock and mud from the mountains. The flood came right at midnight, […]
Recognizing the Armenian Genocide One Hundred Years Later One hundred years ago this week, the Ottoman Empire in its dying throes undertook a systematic effort to exterminate the Armenian and Assyrian people. They did so through a campaign of mass killing and displacement which saw 1.5 million Armenians killed and millions more forced to flee […]
History Repeats Itself I’ve always enjoyed reading Mike Lawler’s columns on our local history. It’s always enlightening. Especially reminding us of the great propensity for catastrophic flooding in our valley during this time of drought. It’s a great tonic, showing us that it is the natural way of things here, the alternation of flood and […]