100 years ago: Professor Snyder from Fort Lewis College left after visiting “the Allison section on school matters.”
75 years ago: The Durango High School auditorium was announced as the location auditions would be held to give up-and-coming radio artists from the San Juan Basin a chance to make a name for themselves.
50 years ago: Bruce M. Kirkpatrick was approved as a deputy district attorney by the La Plata County commissioners.
25 years ago: A woman reported to Durango Police Department that about 10 men, one of whom threatened her, were living in a maroon Impala that had been parked for a week in the alley behind the east 400 block of Second Street. Police gave a warning to the man who threatened the woman.
Items in this column were selected from The Durango Herald archives. Accuracy of content may not be verified.
