100 years ago: “John Olbert went up to Trimble Springs to take the baths in the hope of getting the rheumatism out of his joints caused by reading the U.P. war news.”
75 years ago: “Durango will be one of the stops on a 1,000-mile tour of southwestern national parks and monuments in October.”
50 years ago: “Vehicle and fisherman traffic across the dam and on the east side of Haviland Lake will be shut off. The shut-down is necessary because construction will begin on roads to the 34 unit camping area which the San Juan National Forest is developing at the lake.”
25 years ago: “The La Plata Community Hospital board voted to lease the hospital to Brim & Associates Inc., killing any hope of consolidating community health-care services. The vote turns the 28-year-old public hospital over to a private, nonprofit company, which has promised to expand the hospital’s specialty services while maintaining a small core of medical and surgical beds.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
