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150 years of your community paper The Greeley Tribune Timeline: 1870 – Present

its people, he penned an enticing article, “A Western Colony,” for The Tribune’s Dec. 4, 1869, ediGreeley, Colorado, was con- tion, encouraging readers to ceived as a utopian temperance write to him if they were interand agricultural community. Na- ested in starting a new town than Cook Meeker, agricultural somewhere in the Western Uniteditor of Horace Greeley’s New- ed States.

York Tribune, visited Colorado Horace Greeley, the New-York Territory in the fall of 1869.

Tribune’s founder and editor, enImpressed with the area and thusiastically endorsed Meeker’s

By Peggy Ford Waldo For The Tribune

plan to create a colony comprised of educated people having high moral standards and money. The following April, Greeley, Colorado Territory was established by members of Meeker’s joint-stock colonization company, the Union Colony of Colorado.

As the new town’s population swelled to almost 1,000 by the

fall of 1870, Meeker requested and received a loan of $1,500 from Horace Greeley to start a newspaper, modeled after The New-York Tribune.

The Greeley Tribune, the city’s oldest continuous business and first newspaper, has chronicled the history and development of Greeley and northern Colorado from 1870 to the present.

150 YEARS OF HISTORY

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Tribune’s roots intertwined with those of Greeley community

Early Greeley has lessons for pandemic times now

Peters: Looking back on my life with the Greeley Tribune

Longtime contributor explores impact her work has had

Man insulting territory women forced to take it back

See some of the most iconic Greeley Tribune front pages

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1891 – The State Normal School of Colorado holds its first commencement exercise for 12 graduates in Hunter Oppera House.

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To the friends, readers, and employees of the Greeley Tribune, As the paper celebrates 150 years of publishing, we pause to recognize and honor the important work Tribune employees have carried out for many generations. During that time, the Greeley Tribune has done the important work of serving as a primary news source for our community — keeping residents informed on the latest happenings locally, playing an important role in distributing news that helps keep residents safe, and sharing the impactful stories of the people, organizations, and initiatives that make up our city. The stories they have told not only help us discover the world around us, but also demonstrate how we are connected as a society, particularly in this special place we call home.

UNC’s legacy is intertwined with that of the community and the relationships built, past and present, with the Greeley Tribune. We have formed a strong working relationship, each understanding the important roles both serve in northern Colorado; ultimately, we are both part of each other’s narrative.

June 13, 1890 – The cornerstone dedication and ceremony for the Normal School Building, later to become Cranford Hall

For well over a century, the Tribune has shared the university’s history and stories beginning with our founding as the State Normal School of Colorado in 1889. UNC is grateful for how the newspaper has shined a light on the many accomplishments of our students, faculty, and staff.

Most importantly, we appreciate the accurate, fair, and thorough reporting that continues to represent the Tribune’s journalistic standards.

As our community continues to grow and evolve, I hope the Greeley Tribune will be informing readers for many more years, sharing the important news that affects us all. The Tribune has helped us to seek the truth and connect to one another as citizens, neighbors, friends, and as a community who comes together in times of need. I know the news and information they will continue to share will inspire us in both tangible and intangible ways — leaving a written heritage for us all.

1920-1928 – Construction of Gunter Hall

Thank you for being an excellent partner, resource, and friend. We are better and more informed because of the Greeley Tribune and your mission to serve the community. Congratulations on your sesquicentennial!

Andy Feinstein, President University of Northern Colo orado

April 15, 1970 – The state legislature approves SB 13, sponsored by Sen. William Garnsey of Greeley, changing Colorado State College to the University of Northern Colorado.

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150 YEARS OF HISTORY

Tribune‘s roots intertwined with community’s

By Trevor Reid treid@greeleytribune.com

The Greeley area’s consistent growth over the past 150-plus years is expected to continue well into the future, as officials project the population will more than double by 2060.

As the city and its surrounding areas grow, more than population numbers change. New businesses have come and gone.

Where there were once cornfields, there are now shopping malls and supermarkets. An event once dedicated to local potato farmers has grown into an internationally acclaimed rodeo festival that attracts crowds 10 times the size it did in its inaugural year. As the people of an area experience changes of this scale, so too come cultural and ideological changes.

To maintain a cohesive identity through all that change, Greeley area residents are fortunate to have many of those changes recorded in the Greeley Tri-

bune, the city’s oldest continuous business.

In October 1869, The New-York Tribune’s agricultural editor, Nathan Meeker, visited Colorado Territory, returning to New York City with a vision for a utopian agricultural colony.

He penned a column laying out his plans to establish the Union Colony, inviting those interested to apply. He envisioned a community based on principles of temperance, religion, education, agriculture, irrigation, cooperation and family values.

The colony was established in April 1870 and grew to a population of almost 1,000 by fall of that year. That’s when Meeker requested a loan from Horace Greeley, editor of The New-York Tribune, to start a newspaper modeled after The New-York Tribune.

The Greeley Tribune’s first edition was published Nov. 16, 1870.

The first printed work

was a religious column, “An Honest and Good Heart,” by the Rev. Robert Collyer, a Unitarian clergyman.

To this day, the column’s opening words carry the weight of Meeker’s original utopian vision.

“The possession of a good and honest heart appears to me to be so grand a thing that I think, sometimes, when our Maker has once made sure of that …

He must feel but small anxiety about the rest, for that must come right in time, if honesty abide as the ruler and governor, whatever befall,” Collyer wrote. “In those times it is a thing we talk about, read about with a keen and constant interest — now and then of its virgin purity, as it appears to us in some dream of what might be if men were good enough.”

For many, the Tribune’s historical roots make it an unquestionable part of the area’s identity.

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The Greeley Tribune building stands Wednesday at 501 8th Ave. in Greeley.

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At left is the very first Greeley Tribune, published Nov. 16, 1870.

Above is the Jan. 2, 1936, Tribune and The Weld County Republican consolidated issue.

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By Peggy Ford Waldo For The Tribune

Editor’s note: This column was written to mark Greeley’s 150th anniversary on April 6, 2020, just days after Gov. Jared Polis issued a stay-at-home order.

In a March 27, 2020, article in the Greeley Tribune, Greeley Mayor John Gates recognized the severity of the novel coronavirus pandemic and wholeheartedly lent his support to Gov. Jared Polis’ “stay-at-home order.” This put me in a reflective mood, as this wasn’t the start I and others had envisioned on the eve of Greeley’s 150th anniversary.

“Home” was a precious place to Greeley’s founder, Nathan Cook Meeker 150 years ago.

On April 6, 1870, representatives of the Union Colony of Colorado purchased land between the confluence of the Cache la Poudre and South Platte rivers for the utopian agricultural and temperance community named Greeley, in honor of Horace Greeley, founder of the New-York Tribune. In 1866, Greeley hired Meeker as the Tribune’s agriculture editor.

Meeker’s speech prepared for Greeley’s first anniversary appeared in the April 4, 1871, Greeley Tribune. Meeker spoke of his travels as a New-York Tribune correspondent during the Civil War and later as its agriculture editor. Near Dongola, Illinois, where he farmed and wrote from 1857-1866, Meeker said that “we had the ague about half of the time.”

“While traveling, I made it a point to see if I could find a place to which I could remove with my family where it would be healthful, where we could send our children to

school, and my wife could go to meeting, for during all our residence in that country (southern Illinois), we did not send the children to school, and my wife went to meeting but once, and then it was in an ox wagon,” Meeker revealed.

Meeker spoke favorably of his family’s new home in Brooklyn, New York, but of New York City, he said, “Still, there was a great inequality for we were surrounded by rich and fashionable people, the location being in the vicinity of the great city, where almost everyone went in and out daily either on business or pleasure, and having been born and brought up in the west (Ohio), and being imbued with its spirit, the same old search for a home still went on. The opportunities for searching were of the most favorable kind, for my profession took me into every part of the country, including the Southern States and the Territories.”

Several members of Meeker’s family suffered with respiratory ailments and his second child, George Columbus Meeker, died on April 26, 1870, in Evans of tuberculosis, a common respiratory disease nicknamed the “white plague.” Meeker was constantly obsessed with finding an affordable and healthy location — clean air, a temperate climate, fertile soil, abundant water and natural resources, with people of “good society” — to establish a permanent home for his family.

For members of the joint-stock colonization company (Union Colony of Colorado) who arrived in Greeley in April and the months following, this area was dubbed “the Great American Desert.”

With buffalo grass and cacti it looked like a waste-

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Peggy Ford Waldo smiles in December 2016 as she pulls one of the photos used in a book she wrote with the help of the Greeley History Museum at the Museum, 714 8th St., in downtown Greeley. Below is a bust of Nathan C. Meeker, the founder of Greeley.

land, but would soon be transformed into the “Garden Spot of Colorado,” via the diversion of water from the Cache la Poudre River into an expansive network of irrigation ditches and canals.

Within months, Greeley became a town. People were anxious for social interaction, but “meet ups” were problematic in a town that prohibited saloons and billiard establishments. Meeker suggested that people form clubs and organizations to find camaraderie and share their common interests. The Greeley Lyceum and Farmers Club and many others were established in 1870.

Social distancing because of extremely cold weather had kept people indoors in the winter of 1870, and Meeker noted

this in his article, “Lounging Spaces”, in the Dec. 28, 1870, Greeley Tribune.

Meeker gave a lengthy evaluation of various Greeley establishments where people would be welcome to socially congregate within reasonable limits: “Now that the cold weather is over and buildings and businesses are brisk again, it may be of use to make a statement of the chances there will be several places in town, for spending a few hours if we should have another cold snap.”

Meeker visited 20 places, including two hotels, the printing and colony offices, two millinery shops, a barber shop, and hardware, implement, dry goods stores and fruit, vegetable and meat markets.

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The Feb. 13, 1889, front page, above, included many short “Home News” snippets. In 1889 in Greeley, construction began on a $65,000 waterworks for the city of Greeley. By July, the waterworks was working regularly from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The work ended on a somber note, as city engineer John D. Buckley, who worked closely on the project with Denver Union Water engineer Charles P. Allen, became gravely ill, most likely from typhoid fever. He died July 31, 1889.

At right is the front page for July 17, 1917, including many stories about The Great War. In 1917, as the Greeley Tribune was continuing to provide coverage of World War I, Floyd E. Merrill, one of three men to whom James.

A Michener dedicated his novel “Centennial,” became editor of the Tribune, a position kept almost continuously until he retired in July 1960.

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Looking back on my life with the Tribune

By Mike Peters For the Greeley Tribune

Fifty.

That’s how many years ago I walked into the Tribune as an employee. And it’s been an adventure.

I retired after forty years, and now writing the two columns for weekend editions.

It was 1971 when I was working for the city, writing news releases, and then Tribune City Editor John Dugan offered the job. Cop reporter.

I grabbed it! The paper was in the old Tribune building (which is now the city museum) and they put me on the second level next to a window, because the newspaper couldn’t afford a police radio. So I had to listen for the sound of sirens and call the police to see what was happening. It wasn’t too long before they bought a radio.

And the adventures began. I covered the crime in Greeley and Weld County, interviewed police and sometimes the bad guys they arrested. I also did feature stories, such as when I covered the opening of the Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Weld County. Got bitten by a tiger on that trip.

I have some very good memories from the Tribune and Greeley.

•The first Honor Flight.

I was excited to accompany all of the war veterans who were on that first flight to Washington, D.C. to visit the World War II Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. It was in April 2008. As we toured the city it was raining and the bus driver told the war vets they would need to wait until the rain stopped.

“Have you every fought in Iwo Jima?” One veteran said. “It rained every day

Mike Peters worked at the Greeley Tribune for 40 years. He writes the 100 Years Ago column that appears every Sunday and the Gnarly Trombone that appears every other week on the Voices page.

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Mike Peters, left, and his wife, Linda, talk to a resident who is interested in Peters’ book, "Greeley 1916," during a book-signing event in 2017 at The Greeley Tribune.

there.” And they all got off the bus and walked in the rain. I had never before been with such a special group.

•I have had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing well-known people: John Elway, when the Broncos had summer camp in Greeley; Richard Chamberlain and Robert Conrad when they were filming “Centennial” here.

(Later, Conrad wouldn’t talk to me after he got into a fight.) I met our current President Joe Biden in a room on the UNC campus.

He was running for vice president and was going to speak at UNC. I was covering the speech and walked into an adjoining room that was empty except for the future president,

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standing alone. Not even any Secret Service in the room. I told him good luck with his speech. I’m sure he remembers me …

•I remember the good people I worked with …

Mildred Hansen, the publisher and owner of the paper when I first came; John Dugan, of course; Bus Widlund, editor; Paul Moloney, who was the Trib photographer for a hundred years or so. There were numerous editors and reporters I worked with through the years, and enjoyed them all. The older reporters when I came included Frank Colohan, whose typewriter was so well used that his fingernails caused grooves in the keys.

There was an entertainment reporter who was

never sober while at work.

Sadly, many of those friends and co-workers are gone now. One editor was Randy Bangert, a special friend who died of cancer just three years ago.

•When we moved from the old building to the new, the changes were outstanding. The old building smelled of ink in the air from the presses. There were also the loud noises of the presses running, printing the afternoon papers. We switched to morning papers later, and the presses then ran overnight, when the news people weren’t there. We also switched from the old typewriters to computers, which was a huge jump and much quieter.

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changed, also. In the old days, we’d be out in the city and county, interviewing, taking photos, getting the news firsthand, then taking it back to the office to write. These days, there are few people in the building, as everyone writes from home. The new building is mostly empty now, and will soon be turned into the city library. The Tribune will move to a smaller office building.

•There were difficult times, I admit. Death threats because some people hated a story. At times, police included our house in their nightly patrols. A city leader who, every time he came by the Tribune, would ask the editor if they’d fired Mike Peters yet. Folks who wrote angry

letters full of words that couldn’t be printed.

•But I also had the pleasure of covering Greeley and its good people. Folks who turn out en masse to put wreaths on veterans’ graves at People who feed the poor and help the homeless and stop to help someone who has fallen.

Good citizens who volunteer to make sure others can make it through the difficult times we’re having now.

Yes, there are some great memories of Greeley and its newspaper. Things are difficult now, because newspapers are losing readers.

Newspapers are mostly digital now, and many folks try to get their news from Facebook and other personal media.

But I still look forward to holding that morning paper while enjoying my coffee.

Mike Peters was a longtime reporter for the Tribune. He currently still writes the “Gnarly Trombone” and “100 Years Ago” columns for the newspaper.

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By Sandi Squicquero For the Greeley Tribune

I first started writing for Windsor Now!, a sister publication to the Greeley Tribune, in 2006.

We had moved to Windsor in 2005 and in reading both newspapers in the area I noticed the Windsor Beacon had a columnist named Gary Crist who wrote articles on mental health issues. I enjoyed the fact Windsor Now! had a presence in the community, and as a psychotherapist in the area I felt there was a need for significant information in the psychosocial area.

Tom Fasano was the editor and a reporter for Windsor Now! at the time.

With a passion for mental health therapy and little writing experience, I walked into his office one day and the rest is history.

Therapy and mental health consist of a person’s life stories. The stories involve hope, treatment and healing.

In communicating information about the ever changing field of mental health and covering community events, my passions began to form and emerge.

In the archives

Every narrative article I have written is formed out of thought, knowledge and the need to provide information and guidance to those who desire assistance in determining their future course of action in life. While featuring local events and the importance of holidays, I felt a sense of community and bringing families and people together.

In reflecting on my writing for Windsor Now and the Greeley Tribune, an event that changed many lives of our Northern Colorado citizens was the Tornado of May 22, 2008.

That tornado would

cause irretrievable damage echoing for years to come.

Lives were shattered and changed. Memories of severe weather, snowball like hail, wind, rain, and finally the train like roar that rocked our world still haunts us today.

In an article in 2009 titled “Damaged, Changed But Not Beaten” I wrote about the aftermath of the tornado and the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. The Windsor Community Foundation set aside funds for free counseling to those who were affected and I formed a team of counselors to help me assist individuals, families and children in need of psychotherapy and support.

During the tornado and the aftermath many organizations helped our community to include the Windsor Police and Fire Departments, Windsor Optimist Club, the Rotary Club of Windsor, the Weld food Bank, the Red Cross, the Windsor Chamber of Commerce and many other organizations I have not mentioned.

In 2009 in the article “Give Me Print Media,” I wrote about the lives and deaths of three young people who lived in Windsor: Lauren Johnson who passed away from carbon monoxide poisoning, David Crider who passed away from Cancer and Hunter Nelson a six year old who lost his life to Sturge-Webber Syndrome.

Hunter had a dream for a cure that his parents Rob and Wendy Nelson turned into a charitable organization in 2001. In reading the newspaper articles about these people, their lives and the people who loved them, they were introduced to us and we felt like we were a part of their lives.

Another newsworthy event was our Windsor High School band playing

GREELEY TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO

Samantha Lehmann, then 9, of Loveland sits in front of a friend's house while helping with cleanup in Windsor in May 2008 after a tornado tore through Windsor and Weld County. Residents were allowed to return to their homes two days after the storm ravaged the area. Below, houses in the southeast part of Windsor show the massive damage the tornado caused.

for the Presidential Inauguration in 2009. What an honor and a memorable occasion for our students, their families and our town.

Not all of my articles have a happy ending. Seri-

ous chronic illness, cancer, depression and suicide top my list, as they are critical clinical issues. Therapists are devoted to finding the options and answers for those patients who are in emotional pain. How to

speak about, educate and write concerning on end of life issues and the illness that proceeds needs to be done with great care.

Have my articles impacted the community? If so how?

Sometimes we impact and contribute by listening to our inner voice and seeing where self examination takes us. I am a champion for mental health and because of my articles I have been asked by various organizations in our community to speak in regards to mental health concerns.

The best feedback comes from YOU. Often someone will ask me if I write in the Tribune and commend me for a job well done. I am honored.

I would like to thank those present and past who have contributed to

my work and have believed in what I have written. My editor Jerry Martin and creative page designer Brian Sathe. My past editors, Randy Bangert, Dan England, Tom Fasano and David Theiman. My advertising sales consultants Desirea Martinez and Cristin Peratt. And, last but not least, my readers.

Congratulations, Greeley Tribune, for a job well done!

Sandi Y. Squicquero M.Ed,.LPC, is a licensed professional counselor who works out of the Medical Hypnosis and Counseling Center at 1180 Main St., Suite 5B in Windsor. She has more than 30 years experience as a counselor and is board certified in medical hypnosis.

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The cover of The Greeley Daily Tribune from Dec. 8, 1941, left, after the attack on Pearl Harbor is on left. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service launched a surprise military strike on the U.S.’s naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii.

The Greeley Tribune, then located at 714 8th St., reported the next day on Greeleyites in the Pacific war zone, as well as Weld County service men who were on duty in the war zone.

The front page above is from June 6, 1944, after the invasion of Normandy during World War II. On that day, the Greeley Tribune reported on the Normandy landings, commonly known as D-Day, which began that day in Europe. The operation is credited for laying the foundation for the Allied victory. When World War II ended in September 1945, the Tribune had about 23 carriers, according to Jake Estrick, Jr., who became circulation manager that month and served in that role until his retirement in 1978, when the Tribune had 132 carriers.

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The covers of some of the bigger stories to hit area communities in Greeley’s history. At left is the cover for Nov. 2, 1955, when an airliner crashed near Platteville. On Nov. 1, 1955, a United Airlines flight exploded over Longmont, crashing near Platteville and killing all 44 people onboard. The Greeley Tribune reported the next day on local impacts, printing with a Comet Linotype machine installed in July of that year. It was later determined John “Jack” Gilbert Graham planted a time bomb in his mother’s suitcase in an attempt to claim her life insurance money. He was executed in January 1957.

Above is the cover on Dec. 14, 1961, when a school bus drove into the path of a train on a foggy day. Greeley native Robert Widlund, the Tribune’s first fulltime news and sports reporter, was editor at the time, serving in that role until 1980.

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Colorado man insulting territory women forced to take it back

By Trevor Reid treid@greeleytribune.com

The following was pulled from “50 Years Ago” columns that ran in the Greeley Tribune 100 years ago:

From the files of the Greeley Tribune, March 29, 1871:

• The weather is most glorious to behold, and the green grass is making an appearance on hill and vale.

• A committee, consisting of Messrs. Holmes, Childs and Wilber, commences this week with the 15 or 20 miles of fence along Canal No. 3, which is to be built on the lower side, that is, on what may be called the tow-path.

From the bottom of the canal to the top of the fence, it will be 8 or 9 feet. Work is to be prosecuted with vigor and with all the force of men and teams that can be had.

• Engineer Nettleton brought into town an eagle’s wing which with its counterpart measured 6 feet across. This wing would be suitable to trim a modern bonnet.

• Mr. Ramsey has built a manufactory near the river for the manufacture of sheep pelts into fancy door mats and, which being tanned and colored and finished off, are suitable for the nicest parlor.

• The Greeley Tribune has obtained a new heading — supposed to be a facsimile of H. G.’s handwriting. It is a fine illustration of the electrotyper’s art. None but a master could have copied such irregular hen-tracks. — Denver Tribune • We have seen a rhubarb plant raised on

Boyd’s ranch some 3 miles above town which has a root 6 feet long. It was raised by Mr. Stafford, who has quite a bed of this root. It produces stalks of enormous growth. The soil in which it was planted is river bottom, black and rank.

• The bridge over the Cache la Poudre is to be commenced forthwith, and the piles will be on hand this week. The length is to be 150 feet. Mr. N. Holmes is in charge. Inasmuch as we shall require several bridges, it has been thought best for the Colony to have a pile driver made, which will cost about $250.

• Mr. Greeley will be glad to learn that a good many families are living over the river on their farms, having left town, and that they are plowing large breadths. Water has come down the Big canal, 3 or 4 miles and so soon as the work is complete on a few contracts, water will be let through the whole length of 27 miles.

• To whom it may concern: It having been reported that our leader, Mr. C. W. Sanborn, favored having a ball after our concert Friday eve, and was stigmatized as a hypocrite, we the undersigned do herby exonerate him from all participation in the matter as the ball was proposed by the band, hoping they might lessen the expenses of the concert. Mr. Sanborn has control over the band only while practicing or playing in the streets and is not responsible for what is done at any other time.

• The Denver Tribune gave a great array of figures representing the

business of Evans, to which we add that it is reported that the men have recently arrived there with a million of dollars each.

• One of the distinguished citizens of Colorado was in the Greeley house the other day, talking with other citizens of Colorado, and he made this remark: “There is not a virtuous woman in the territory.”

“See here,” said one, “Do you know I have a wife and sister?”

“Yes,” says another, “And after you get through with him, I will take him and ALEX MCINTYRE / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER GREELEY TRIBUNE finish him. Take it back, The Greeley Tribune building stands Wednesday at 501 8th Ave. in Greeley. and take it back quick.”

“Hold on, gentlemen,” who do their own teaming sive, and in a few years, said the distinguished citi- have been hard at work making their shares worth the valley of the Cache la around their homes. Truly zen. “I-I-I take it back.” these are golden days. this much. However, those Poudre, 20 miles wide From the files of the who do not sell make the and 30 miles long, will be • We understand that Greeley Tribune, April most money, and they lose the most charming spot the Rev. Robert Collyer of Chicago and president of in the world. most who sell. A young 5, 1871: the Chicago colony, is to • “You’re a liar,” or man who sold a business • E. H. Abbott, our stavisit us next week. It is words to that effect, is tion agent, found a rough lot last summer for $200 fortunate that we have a what some in the states thought he was in high but finely colored stone large hall, undoubtedly would say, if one should luck but now he goes some time ago by the rivhe will address on some try to describe the many around lamenting and er, which he sent to New subject. He is to be acmourning because said lot pleasant summer like York to be cut and polished, and it has returned is worth $500 cash down. days we have in February companied by C. N. Pratt.

• We members with, and March. If we should … So you see the real exceedingly beautiful. Varand without, their families describe the few days of speculator holds and ious kinds of gems lie in arrive on every train, cold high winds, they works while the weak the soil all through this while many others come would be glad to believe section of the country, but speculator only expects. it, for such they know all to look. We judge that the • Mr. Greeley is imthey are more abundant addition to our population about. They will require proving his five acre lot along the foot hills. Moss many years to believe the is not less than 100 per agates, however, are found by planting Austrian week. On Sunday last, 28 truth and to make them out on the plains, also pet- Pine, and other evergreens, and large quanti- believe will be as difficult persons arrived. There rified wood which is must be now in town and as to convert them. ties of larch and locust, equally beautiful.

• We have what may be vicinity nearly 600 houses, and it is expected that • Rapid progress is called a wheel barrow bri- and the population must the seed of hickory, oak, making with the fence along Canal No. 2 and the black walnut and the like gade, composed in part of be about 2,000. And yet there is room for more. enlargement of said canal will be obtained in time. the following persons: Professor Wilber, Rev. Mr. The price of membership Mr. Emmerson, Colony will be completed this Hollister, Secretary Foster, remains the same, that is week, when floods can be treasurer, is to plant 10 acres of forest trees while Mr. Welch, Rev. Mr. Baxter, $155, but lots have been had, if wanted. advanced to $100 and Rev. Mr. Brown, J. F. Sanmany others will plant • It looks hard to see born, N. C. Meeker, Russell $150, which is about half men who have done noth- smaller areas. Of shrubFisk and others who come what they are actually bery, fruit trees, strawing since last spring but worth. No lots are sold by bottom chairs now sell out berries, grapes, currants to the business part of town with their vehicles to the colony except to actual and all such things the their shares for $500 to members. take home supplies and $1,000 each, while others planting will be exten-

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Greeley Tribune front pages covering some of the biggest national news in U.S. history. The Nov. 22, 1963, issue, at left, covers the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Above, the July 21, 1969, issue shares news of the first lunar visit. Below, the Aug. 8, 1974, issue leads with the news of President Richard M. Nixon preparing to resign.

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covers prep sports for the Tribune, remembers growing up reading the Tribune after his father was finished with it.

“As somebody who was born and raised here in Greeley, the Tribune has always been a part of my life,” Fernandez said. “If you’re somebody who was born and raised here, especially in the years before digital media, I think you become accustomed to the newspaper being a part of your daily life.”

Fernandez, who started working at the Tribune in 2005, grew up in a household with three newspapers: the Greeley Tribune, The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. He said reading the paper was an important part of his father’s daily routine.

“I could always remember every Sunday, my dad reading each newspaper from cover to cover and then passing them along to his kids,” Fernandez said.

“One of the things I took the biggest pride in was knowing my dad could open the newspaper and see my byline.”

Sharon McComb, a subscriber and nearly lifelong Greeley resident, said the local coverage provided by the Tribune has always been important to her.

“I didn’t start reading the Tribune until I was older, but at that time, Greeley was about the size of 20,000 people, and so … you know almost everybody that is talked about in the Tribune,” she said. “I always wanted to know what the city council was doing, what the Weld County commissioners were doing. Just keeping up with the local identity of Greeley.”

The Tribune hasn’t been without changes of its own.

The paper has operated under nine different owners, most recently chang-

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Nathan Meeker published the first weekly edition of The Greeley Tribune.

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Former Greeley Tribune Editor Randy Bangert, right, is surrounded by family after winning Newspaper Person of the Year at the Colorado Press Association Convention in 2016.

“These guys were some of the best journalists you will ever find, locally, regionally and nationally, and for me, growing up in Greeley … these guys were true local celebrities.”

– Bobby Fernandez, preps sports reporter

ing hands from Swift Communications to MediaNews Group in March 2020. More than a dozen publishers have headed the Tribune, including E.J. Carver, C.H. Wolfe, Mildred Hansen, Richard Larson, Dave Trussell, Bart Smith, Bryce Jacobson and, currently, Al Manzi.

Different leaders’ visions for the newspaper, as well as changes to the industry, have brought a number of changes over the years. McComb lamented the removal of Horace Greeley’s handwritten name of the Gree-

ley Tribune from the paper’s masthead, the switch from evening to morning deliveries and the reduction from daily publication to four days per week.

But even through those changes, McComb said, “Greeley was really a local, homegrown paper,” somewhere she could turn for a connection to the community.

The Tribune’s historical roots are perhaps most familiar to the public through 100 Years Ago, a weekly column by longtime Tribune reporter Mike Peters, who retired in

2011. Peters summarizes 100-year-old Tribune reports for the column. Even then, recognizing the paper’s history was a regular occurrence, as captured in 50 Years Ago columns that ran at the time.

“Among the numerous arrivals last week were two swarms of bees from the vicinity of New York, belonging to the editor of this paper,” reads one entry from the files of the Tribune in March 1871. “It is not generally thought a good plan to move bees as if they were a barrel of apples. It has been considered doubtful whether bees can get a living in Colorado.”

For Fernandez, working alongside longtime Tribune fixtures including Peters, Bill Jackson, Jim Rydbom, Samuel G. Mustari and Randy Bangert has always meant a lot to him.

“These guys were some of the best journalists you will ever find, locally, regionally and nationally, and for me, growing up in

Greeley when the city had barely more than half as many people as it does now, these guys were true local celebrities,” he said.

“The Tribune has always had a reputation for producing some of the finest journalists in this state and region.”

While the Tribune has endured many challenges and changes over the years — particularly in the years leading up to its 2020 sale — the current staff hasn’t lost the drive to continue to tell Weld County’s stories and keep its citizens informed. According to current editor Jerry Martin, that commitment was something instilled in staff members for many years by the late Randy Bangert, a longtime Tribune editor and reporter who was inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame in April 2018, just a month before he died after battling pancreatic cancer.

“Randy used to talk a lot about how lucky we are to

work in a place where people still think of the local newspaper as being theirs, the community’s,” Martin said. “That’s something I think about a lot. As many challenges as we’ve been through, there are still so many people here who are invested in our success, and we are so fortunate for that.”

As they look to the future, and under the guidance of new ownership, that connection with the community will continue to play a vital role for Tribune staff.

“It’s hard to say how things will reopen after the pandemic, but MediaNews Group is committed to helping us grow along with the community,” Martin said. “I’m confident they will help us traverse whatever challenges await us in the post-COVID world.”

As the Tribune continues to weathers countless changes — and as it helps local communities weather countless others — its deep historical tradition weighs heavily on today’s staff.

“To have a newspaper that was so instrumental in developing the identity of a region 150 years ago still in operation today, still thriving today — for me, it’s been such an honor to be part of that rich tradition and history,” Fernandez said, “even for the small part of it that I have been for the past 15 years.”

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The Greeley Tribune front page on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after the World Trade Center was destroyed by terrorists who hijacked planes and crashed them into the twin towers.

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many chairs each place had — generally none to four — if a “good fire” in the stove kept the premises warm, if there were newspapers and other reading materials available, and if one was allowed to smoke.

“About the best place for fires will be found in the two blacksmith shops, but there are no seats except on the anvils, and these might be wanted all of a sudden,” he noted.

In 1870, there were two blacksmith shops in Greeley, Evan Rea and J.E. Billings blacksmithing and wagon making shop on Walnut Street near Madison (site of the Mad Cow Restaurant today). Master mechanic, Alphonso Dow’s New Colony Blacksmith and Wagon Shop was “on Walnut Street, near the livery stable.”

In the final analysis of appropriate and comfortable “lounging spaces,” Meeker awarded the top prize to only one place: HOME. “There is one other place which ought to have everything that can be desired; the stove is warm, there are plenty of chairs, some even with rockers, and there are books and papers, and first-rate company, and at night, a lamp to read by, and a bed to sleep in, which, on the whole, is the best place in town, or in the world, and it ought to be patronized more, ” he said Of the 737 individuals who were members of the Union Colony, 147 were from either New York City or New York State. They arrived in Greeley by train, and many of those talented Easterners established the traditions of music, theater, art and culture here.

As the pandemic continues, may you proudly patronize your home, protect

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A crew member cuts smaller branches from the tree with a chainsaw while removing a roughly 80-foot-tall Austrian Pine tree that succumbed to several hard freezes in the last couple of years at the Meeker Home Museum in Greeley March 3, 2021.

yourself and others within its familial walls and halls, and practice generosity towards the homeless and those in need. Find peace in your home and in yourself, like Meeker did when he noticed and took comfort in the amenities of his $6,000 two-story adobe home at 1324 9th Avenue in 1870. I like the Harold S. Kushner quote: “Do things for people — not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”

Today I walked up to 1324 9th Avenue and read the inscription beneath the bronze bust of Greeley’s founder, Nathan Cook Meeker. It appeared in the

first edition of the Greeley Tribune, Nov. 16, 1870, and Meeker’s thoughts remain relevant and inspirational today as a testament of community perseverance these past 150 years: “Two classes of events are presented in our colony life, one class is connected with the affairs of individuals, which, even by those concerned, are quickly forgotten. It is doubtful if a history of these days, as affecting individuals, ever will or can be written —it is doubtful whether it would be of any benefit if it were written. Another class of events can be readily recorded — these relate

to the progress and growth of the colony. Individuals may rise or fall, may live or die, property may be lost or gained, but the colony as a whole, will prosper, and the spot on which we labor, so long as the world stands, will be the center of intelligence and activity.”

In the 1870s, the Union Colonists in Greeley adapted to and survived many hardships, including droughts, blizzards, four locust plagues, crop failures, typhoid and the everpresent semi-arid environment that required them to find and divert water from miles away for themselves, their crops and

their livestock.

The spread of the novel coronavirus has created a global crisis that requires courage, creativity and compassion. Greeley‘s 21st century citizens are “pandemic pioneers” as everyone has adapted to restrictions, survived hardships, and like Nathan Meeker 150 years ago, patronized HOME and discovered its blessings, both small and large.

And finally, we know that in the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s “adventures” ultimately took her to the place she longed to be: HOME. Nathan Meeker found here a beautiful “location that is well wa-

tered” with the majestic Rocky Mountains rising from the fertile plains. We are all looking for that “Over the Rainbow” place now, where “troubles melt like lemon drops” and everyone’s dreams come true. With Greeley’s intelligent, resourceful and active citizens, Greeley will continue to be a community that successfully confronts challenges and realizes its dreams.

Happy Anniversary, Greeley!

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The Greeley Tribune cover from Dec. 13, 2006, after ICE raided Swift meat plants and detained about 300 employees.

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From top: • The Nov. 16, 1970, front cover marking the 100th anniversary of the Greeley Tribune.

• The Aug. 2, 1976, Greeley Tribune cover details the tragedy of the flooding of the Big Thompson canyon.

• The April 21, 1999, front page covers the Columbine High School shooting where 15 students were killed, including the gunmen, and 24 people were injured.

• The July 26, 2019, front page tells of the remains of Jonelle Matthews finally being found after almost 35 years following her disappearance.

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The front page of the Greeley Tribune from Sept. 15, 2013, after the floods that wreaked havoc on several Weld towns, destroying homes and causing massive damage to land and roads, including U.S. 34.

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