100 years ago: Mrs. Horace McCanna of Durango moved east after her husband’s death and became matron of the Chester, Pa. military academy.
75 years ago: Durango High School music instructor Al C. Roland prepared to direct a chorus of 60 students at the Smiley junior high school.
50 Years Ago: Al Hensley bowled in the Sunday Night Mixed Doubles league and scored a 269 game with eight strikes in a row, the best of the competitive season so far.
25 years ago: Durango police officers were looking for information on a man who robbed a clerk at gunpoint at the Royal Motel, described as “in his late 30s 5-foot 8- or 9-inches tall, weighing approximately 150 pounds, with collar-length, sandy blonde, well-kept hair, blue eyes, a mustache and one- to two-days’ beard growth on his face.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
