100 years ago: Fabian Martinez was issued a $100 fine in Ignacio court after he was found guilty of “importing intoxicating liquors” into the state without a permit.
75 years ago: The “department of game and fish of New Mexico” dumped a truckload of rainbow trout into the Animas River near Aztec and Cedar Hill.
50 years ago: A 62-year-old Hesperus man was killed in a head-on collision 11 miles south of Hesperus on Highway 140. The man, in a 1966 Datsun pickup, was driving north on the highway in the wrong lane when he hit a man from Cortez, who was driving south in a 1966 Rambler sedan, according to Colorado State Patrolmen C.D. Bushey and Frank Tomsic.
25 years ago: Someone stole an antique bathtub with claw feet that was in front of the residence at 111 E. 30th St., according to a report from Durango Police Department.
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.
