100 years ago: “Owing to the rains a number of the ranchers put off haying until the middle of the week. Weather clearing up, they went to work, but as soon as the hay was down it started to rain again. No damage done, but it is laying in the field awaiting ‘curing’ weather, and in the meantime it remains cloudy and unsettled.”
75 years ago: “The society reporter says she would know it is June, even if she didn’t have a calendar.”
50 years ago: “Mercy hospital is modernizing all the time. The newest improvement is an emergency room on the ground floor of the hospital. It is a spacious, light and airy room, so different from the cramped quarters upstairs off surgery.”
25 years ago: “Inmates at La Plata County Jail will soon be afforded due process in grievance procedures, they will be entitled to contact visitation at least twice a month and they will be able to work out on recreation equipment purchased from Colorado State University at least three times a week. These are three of the 12 new stipulations under the jail’s consent decree, a sort of inmate bill of rights originally drafted by the county in 1985 in response to a lawsuit filed by former inmate Ken Wilson.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
