100 years ago: “The Kittimac expects to start work shortly and it looks as if it will be a big producer. The company has underway a cyanide mill, which will be the first built in this county.”
75 years ago: “Uniforms for the Durango High School band are expected to arrive Jan. 15. A sample copy arrived shortly before the Christmas vacation, and it is a glamorous layout.”
50 years ago: “The top sports stories in Southwest Colorado during 1965 revolved around the rapidly rising winter sport of skiing as few other sports produced any spectacular results. Although several area teams finished among the leaders in statewide competitions.”
25 years ago: “Some institutions might shy away from fame associated with a disease, but Fort Lewis College is a national celebrity in public health circles because of its excellent documentation of a 1988 measles outbreak on campus. In fact, based partly on what they learned from the FLC measles outbreak, researchers for the National Centers for Disease Control, have in the last two years changed their recommendations for when measles vaccinations should be given.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
