February25: Years Ago…
‘Years Ago’ is a compilation of newsy tidbits as published in the Crawford County Independent & Kickapoo Scout on this week ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or sixty years ago.
TEN YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 24, 2011 – North Crawford Students assembled near the intersection of Highway 131 and County X on school property to protest a budget repair bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker. The students were particularly unhappy about provisions in the bill that would essentially strip public employee unions, like the local teacher union, of collective bargaining rights. The students organized the protest using Facebook on their computers Wednesday night.
Reporting from COLORADO CITY, Ariz.
Decades and decades ago, members of a breakaway fundamentalist faction of the Mormon Church fled their Utah home, most choosing the remote corners of North America to live in isolation. One group picked this mile-high cocoon, protected on three sides by the Vermilion Cliffs to make their last stand for a polygamous society.
They encircled themselves yet tighter, building high fences around compounds and houses, with no trespassing signs mounted on every outward-facing wall. For the better part of a century, they held fast nothing much more than a curiosity on a route to the Grand Canyon.