100 years ago: Residents of Mancos, Dolores, Rico and other towns west of Durango complained that the mail service had been terrible since mail clerks were taken off the Durango-Ridgway run. Petitions to ask that the clerks be restored to the run were to be sent to the post office department.
75 years ago: Haviland Lake, a “spawning and rearing pond,” was abandoned by the state game and fish commission, to be turned into a game warden’s headquarters. The commission decided to abandon the lake, as well as the buildings and equipment there, for fish propagation at its last meeting.
50 years ago: The San Juan Group of the Colorado Mountain Club embarked from Needleton on a two-day “pack-in” to Chicago Basin.
25 years ago: Fort Lewis College security had to call for backup after a student pulled a gun on another student at Fort Lewis College.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
