Organizing leads to history lesson

Thursdays in the summer are often a slower day in the office. The paper has already printed, local folks are getting ready for a long weekend in the sun at Lake Roosevelt and there’s still a week to consider what the newspaper will look like in seven days.

Last Thursday, that led to me finally undertaking a long overdue task not done since I’ve been here, at least: organizing the newspaper archives found in our 12th and Morgan Street office.

Sometimes, interested local historians will pop by the office hoping to look at an article from 1973, or 1941, or even 1905. They’re in luck, but not afte...