75 years ago: “Committee members from the Basin Sportsmen organization met Monday night to consider reports from the fish and big-game committees. Included in this action was a recommendation to the state fish commission that Haviland Lake be utilized as a sort of retaining lake for an experimental period of three years.”
50 years ago: “Major Jim French received an engraved airplane piston yesterday ‘commemorating the last scheduled DC-3 flight on the original Frontier route.’ The DC-3 made its last scheduled flight for Frontier from Durango yesterday afternoon.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
