100 years ago: A building contractor working on the high school, M.J. Kenney, returned from Denver with five carpenters, with whom he would use to rush the “work on the structure to completion.”
75 years ago: All were invited to a patriotic meeting that would feature “timely entertainment” on stage in the auditorium at Smiley Junior High School. Thousands were expected to attend.
50 years ago: As part of an effort to integrate native communities into conventional society, Navajo children were to be shuttled on buses from Shiprock, New Mexico, boarding schools, were to spend a day in Durango once a week.
25 years ago: Fifteen to 20 adults were “being disorderly” at 12:03 a.m. in the parking lot at Durango Bowl, 800 Camino del Rio. They fled when police arrived.
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
