By Forrest Stone
Herald Staff Writer
100 years ago: In weather news, winter paid Durango “a return engagement during the early morning hours. Newspaper folk and others who were up at 5:30 saw Smelter hill and Perins dotted with snow.”
75 years ago: All Durango stores, “with exception of drug and confectioners,” were closed in observance of Memorial Day.
50 years ago: James Gore was approved as the new Durango School District 9-R director of special projects.
25 years ago: Gregory Kirk Hubbard, a 42-year-old man from San Angelo, Texas, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide that involved a pickup truck going off a cliff in the La Plata Canyon.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
