Recent Articles from area newspapers

• Lee and Helen Swenson - Volunteer Connection
  
  
• Mead Historic Society Wins Award- Greeley Tribune Jan. 11, 2009 - Offsite
  
  
• Historic Highlandlake Church Receives Much Needed Grant Money
  Longmont Daily times-Call Feb. 6, 2009 (They got things a little wrong, no money, just recognition) - offsite
  
  
• Second Coming, Highlandlake gears up for its 86th annual reunion and community gathering. Longmont Daily Times-Call. 06/06/07 - offsite
  
  
• Pioneers tell their stories. It's not too often people will tell stories at a cemetery when it's not Halloween. Greeley Tribune 08/21/2004 - offsite
  
  
• Mead Community Newsletter Vol. 2, Issue 4. June, 2003
  
  
• A town lives on MEAD — Highlandlake died in 1906, but once a year, devoted descendants return to relive its memories. Greeley Tribune 06/09/03 - offsite
  
  
• Spring storm causes structural problems for historic church
  The little white church is still the centerpiece of what used to be the town of Highlandlake.
  But the church is falling down. Greeley Tribune 05/21/03 - offsite
  
  
• Gilcrest kids raise $1,000 for cemetery. A month after vandals broke several headstones and stole others at the Highlandlake Cemetery, officials are repairing its wounds with the help of some Gilcrest kids. Greeley Tribune 02/21/2003 - offsite
  
  
• Vandals wreck historic cemetery MEAD - Thanks to the sweat of more than 40 angry volunteers and nearby residents, it looked Friday as if the Pioneer Highlandlake Cemetery was finally going to bury an ugly incident in its long history. Greeley Tribune 01/13/2003 - offsite
  

Articles from the Past

• New - Selected excerpts from the 1895 Longmont Ledger's Highlandlake column.
  
  
• New - Selected excerpts from the 1896 Longmont Ledger's Highlandlake column.
  
  
• New - Selected excerpts from the 1897 Longmont Ledger's Highlandlake column.
  
  
• Excerpts from the Longmont Ledger 1882-1897 about the Davis Family
  
  
• A Beautiful Country - Longmont Ledger June 4, 1903
  
  
• A City Girl's Opinion of a Country Village After Her First Visit - Longmont Ledger Aug 10, 1900
  
  
• Highlandlake School - Greeley Tribune, Thursday, June 10, 1897

Press Releases - Selected

• Historic Highlandlake Names Pauli Driver Smith as Executive Director 15 Jan. 2005
  
  
• June 1, 2006 Highlandlake church to be rededicated
  
  
• 83rd Highlandlake Community Gathering - 13 June - 2004
  
  
• Fundraising efforts in full swing - 18 Feb. 2004
  
  
• From Blues to Polka and Swing, Area Bands Will Provide Music, at Highlandlake Hey Day
  
  
• Put the Pedal to the Water at Highlandlake Hey Day Paddleboat Challenge - August 23
  
  
• Catch a Fish, Save a Church - At Highlandlake, August 23
  
  
• Highlandlake 'Hey Day' set for August 23 - 1 Aug 2003
  
  
• Mead Area Community Foundation Fund Awards Two Grants! 6 Jun 2003
  
  
• Press Release 21, May 2003 

This page was updated on November 1, 2009