In “recent” decades (1990s on?), the town or entities within it have published newsletters to keep residents apprised of local happenings. These newsy notes also capture part of the evolution of desktop publishing since its early days in the 1980s.
Such wonderful little slices of modern history– we wish we’d kept more of these! Here are a few milestones, events, and general memories from a few issues at hand.
From Town Talk, September 1992:
- The construction of the new fire station has begun east of town on Hwy 8. [Lakewood/Bancroft moved from today’s town office/police building to the new location and is now known as West Metro.]
- Saturday, October 31st was scheduled to be Cider Days on the Bear Creek Nursing Center lawn, co-sponsored by the Morrison Action Committee and the Front Range Antique Power Association. Yes, there was a tractor show.
- The town office staff solicited recipes from “All Ye Great Cooks” for the “Morrison Recipe Roundup Cookbook.” [Wonder what happened to that project.]
- A Fireside Chat at the Morrison Natural History Museum featured town resident and USGS geologist Christine Turner speaking on the Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation. As of 2024, the Friends of Dinosaur Ridge were still hosting Fireside Chats.
From The Town Crier, #2, Jan-Feb 1999
“published as needed by the Morrison Action Committee”:
- A “new Morrison tradition” was established when more than 100 people turned out December 4th to enjoy the festive atmosphere and holiday lights of downtown Morrison, while singing favorite songs of the season.
- Pat Harrod, music teacher at Red Rocks Elementary School, and a band of his students led the chorus from the Morrison Community Church to the SunRise/Bear Creek Nursing Center.
- At caroling stops along the way, business owners offered refreshments: spicy cider and cookies from Shari Curtis at Red Earth; roasted chestnuts with egg nog and coffee at Morrison Liquors; hot cocoa at the Horton House Bed and Breakfast.
From the Morrison Messenger, Vol. 2, No. 2, March 2001
“Official publication of the Morrison Board of Trustees”
- On March 6th, Leo Bradley presented to the Town Board his plans to demolish the stone building at 209 Bear Creek Avenue, historically the Ross Hardware building. The building is to be rebuilt of the same stones and to the same floor plan, updating it to modern construction standards.
- The first phase of the Bear Creek Trail into Morrison was underway, as a segment from C-470 to Soda Lakes Road was completed, with the link to Mt. Vernon St. by the end of the month.
- The town office solicited volunteers for a creek bank restoration effort, harvesting and planting willows Mar 31-Apr 1 along the new Bear Creek Trail from Soda Lakes Road to Mt. Vernon Street.
- The new high zone water storage tank and the pipeline to it from the new pump stations were essentially completed.
- Finishing touches were being applied to the rehabilitation of the water treatment plant, the first of its kind in Colorado to partially disinfect drinking water using ultra-violet treatment.
From 2000 to 2003, more than 20 issues of the Morrison Messenger were published. Here’s a special issue honoring Rolf Paul, from February 2002.
The Town’s current newsletter is the Morrison Hogback, published in digital form only. Back issues (Sept 2019 to current) are available on the Town website.
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