100 years ago: Trimble Springs – “More seats have been added to the Waterfall school as there was not room to accommodate the number of scholars.”
75 years ago: “Animas City, practically a residential portion of Durango, is absolutely without a sewer system, and well neigh without a water system. Yet when opportunity to remedy such disgraceful and intolerable condition arises, where is the boasted spirit of cooperation?”
50 years ago: “Monday’s dark, er threatening, windblown clouds stretched a white sheet of five inches of snowfall across the rooftops and onto the streets of Durango. With 16 days ‘till Christmas, the Durango countryside was hidden ‘neath the first appreciable snow of the 1963-64 winter season.”
25 years ago: “The owner of a 10-acre tract of land straddling the Animas River north of Bondad is donating a scenic and wildlife easement to La Plata County. When a landowner donates a conservation easement to the county, that means developers forever are limited to the stipulations set up in the easement. Martha Thomas, working with the Open Space Committee, has designed her gift to protect the habitat of geese, bald eagles and fish.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
