100 years ago: “The firemen’s vacation ended and the boys now are all back on the job, and in recent days are managing to keep considerably busy.”
75 years ago: “A treasure hunt scheduled for the wide open spaces, but necessarily, due to inclement weather, transferred to the warmer and drier though more confining limits of the household, was the exciting fun afforded guests of Janet Gilchrist who helped celebrate her 11th birthday.”
50 years ago: “Light snow was falling on mountain passes leading from Durango. Roads at the top of Red Mountain were snowpacked. Other parts of Red Mountain Pass were wet.”
25 years ago: “For the first time in recent history, the county commissioners and city councilmen agreed amicably on services to fund with the joint city/county sales tax. They even agreed in less than 10 minutes to fund the Durango Public Library’s entire 1991 budget of $417,556, an issue that has pushed the city and county to the brink of war the past two years.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
