100 years ago: “Sheriff G.S. Todd, of Montezuma County, was an arrival in town from Pueblo, where he recently took a youth to be placed in the home of the feeble-minded.”
75 years ago: “Ida Fracassini down at Graden’s showed the flu who is tougher by subduing the ailment and returning to work today.”
50 years ago: “All of those out-of-state hunters who roamed all over the hills last fall and went home convinced there weren’t any elk in the whole San Juan Basin, should have been in Durango this morning as a herd, estimated at 40 to 80 head rambled around the northwest part of the city, chomping on rose bushes and other shrubs, trampling around numerous yards and running up and down some of the streets and dodging snowballs on the Needham elementary and Miller junior high school playgrounds.”
25 years ago: “When Purgatory Ski Area opened nine runs to the public 25 years ago, members of the volunteer ski patrol were worried. Many of the 800 skiers who christened the slopes opening weekend had never skied at an area that large. Those patrolmen hardly recognize Purgatory today. The sleepy little ski area that boasted one chairlift, one Poma lift, a day lodge, and nine miles of trails in 1965 has grown into a major resort.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
