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Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 10:27 AM

My Hometown, Sugar Town

My Hometown, Sugar Town
A copy of the “Sugar Tramp Desk Book” that chronicled the happenings and employees of Johnstown’s Great Western Sugar factory. Photo provided by Laura Tregoning-Drotar

Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a two-part series.

It is so interesting how times change, people change, and of course places change. Johnstown has grown like wildflowers over the past few years. When I was a kid if you saw someone on the street you didn’t know, they were definitely from out of town. There are homes where there once were fields owned by families everyone knew. The only stores in town were on Parish Avenue. If you wanted drive through fast food you had to drive to Greeley.

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