On this day 50, 25 years ago: Ever-present potholes, controversial housing development nixed

March 16, 1976:

On this day 50 years ago, the Hamilton City Council discussed closing the city park to motorized vehicles, special curbs to accommodate disabled people, and potholes in the city streets.

In other front-page news, a riprapping project on the Bitterroot River received approval, a Hamilton alderman proposed that a special day be set aside to honor achievements by Hamilton High School students, and in news from across the pond, England's Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned.

March 16, 2001:

On this date in 2001, a developer withdrew his application for subdivision approval in the controversial Sunnyside Orchards No. 2.  The development was controversial with neighbors, partly because the legality was questionable but also because of concerns about corridor shrinkage, groundwater and stream pollution, disturbance of migratory bird nesting and an increase of cats and dogs in the area.

In other front-page news, a production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" premiered with 109 Hamilton students and adult actors and musicians, and a Corvallis woman (or possibly a Hamilton woman, looks like there was a mixup in the headline) was charged with felony endangerment.