100 years ago: “City Manager Hood has had a force of men busy putting in the new pipeline to connect up the west side of the No. 1 reservoir with the supply pipe.”
75 years ago: “The Cortez High School Panthers soundly trounced the Durango High School Demons in a Turkey Day football game at Cortez. The score – when Cortez finally finished scoring – was 39 to 0.”
25 years ago: “About 60 residents from Oxford, Ignacio and Bayfield met at the Sky Ute Lodge in Ignacio to discuss the construction of a 115-kilovolt power line which will eventually connect the Long Hollow Substation in Hesperus to the Amoco Production Co. gas compressor station in Cottonwood Gulch. ... The residents who gathered in Ignacio say they are not necessarily upset that the power line is going in, but feel they have been bypassed in the public notification process that was extensive during the first phase of the project.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
