100 years ago: “Steve Elkins, with armed assistants and a large pack of trained hunting hounds, will start a wolf-drive in the big Navajo Pasture located in northern New Mexico, to wipe out the predatory animals, which this winter have killed some 35 choice cattle ranging there.”
75 years ago: “Spring has arrived. Yes, sir it really has. The proof of that fact could be seen at Hillcrest Golf Course, where 20 golfers took advantage of the weather to limber up their clubs and their arms.”
50 years ago: “You pays your money and you takes your choice – as far as weather in Durango is concerned. Two and a half inches of new snow were measured by Malcolm Dayton, official weather observer, a trace of hail, and 0.28 inch of precipitation.”
25 years ago: “The Head Start program is now in its 25th year in Ignacio teaching preschool-aged children from low-income families how to feel good about themselves. The program was started in 1965 from a grant to the Southern Ute Tribe.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
