100 years ago: “The Western Colorado Power Company is placing a large number of colored lights at different points of vantage on Main, as their part of the street decorations for the Colorado-New Mexico Fair.”
75 years ago: “Lightening struck a tree on the Durango High School campus, hitting it 20 feet from Bob Arnold’s home. This is one of the few instances of lightening striking within the city limits of Durango, and Bob now has an idea of how the average Londoner feels.”
50 years ago: “The city’s new policy on impounding dogs will go into effect. All dogs will be impounded at a local animal clinic under a contract with a veterinarian rather than at the city yards. The impounding fee will remain the same at $1, but it will now cost $1.50 per day while the dog is impounded instead of just 50 cents per day as in the past. The big advantage of the new program will be the professional care afforded the dogs while they are impounded. If a dog is picked up, the owner should contact the police department for details on how to get the dog out of the pound.”
25 years ago: “The controversial Animas-La Plata water project would be half built by one federal agency while scientists from another studied and tried to save a small population of the endangered Colorado squawfish in the San Juan River, according to a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation response to the Fish & Wildlife Service. At the end of five years, three of the project’s major components, including Ridges Basin Reservoir, would be completed and an endangered species recovery program underway. But construction of irrigation features, also a critical part of the project, would be subject to another review by both agencies.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
