100 years ago: “Miss Mabel Johnson, who has been nursing at the Miners’ Hospital in Silverton while some of the regular nurses went off on a vacation, came down on her way to her home in Lightner Creek.”
75 years ago: “At a meeting of the La Plata County Land Use Planning Program Committee, the desperate condition of some 265 farm families in the western part of La Plata County, due to protracted drought, was brought up as a subject of action.”
50 years ago: This was in the section called Girl About Town: “Mary Lou Tipotsch, art teacher at Durango High School and sponsor for the cheerleaders, took the 1963 group of cheerleaders to dinner at the Silver Spur.”
25 years ago: “The Durango-La Plata County Airport was expected to be open for regular operations today. Construction of a new runway strip was scheduled to be completed Wednesday but was delayed due to foul weather.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
