50 years ago: City firefighters were called to the Holiday Inn after a fluorescent light transformer went out and caused “a smoke scare.”
25 years ago: A resident who lived on County Road 318 reported an ongoing problem to La Plata County Sheriff’s Office that, for the last four years, his neighbor’s goats keep wandering onto his land and he was sick of feeding them.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Accuracy of content may not be verified.