Taken from SUN files of
April 24, 1925
Hon. and Mrs. Chas. A. Day returned home Tuesday from Denver, where they have been since the fore part of January, the former being in attendance at the general assembly as representative of the counties of Archuleta, Hinsdale and Mineral Counties. Needless to say, he is glad that the misery is over.
The Women’s Civic Club is progressing fine with the repair work at the town hall preparatory to establishing a rest room and information bureau. The rooms to be used have been cleaned and water is being installed in one room. Paper has been bought and is ready to put on. All lumber and materials for the new big porch on the front have been donated and will be on the ground ready for the three big days, April 30, May 1 and 2. That will be next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Your help is needed and very much desired. Come out and help us, at least for a few hours. A hot lunch will be furnished all workers free at the noon hour.
Taken from SUN files of
April 21, 1950
Several local people are featured very prominently in the May issue of the Red Ryder Comics magazine. Along with Mr. Fred Harman, author and artist of the magazine, are shown Little Beaver, Pat Dutton, Billy Lynn, Don Bennett, Charles Pargin and Mr. Bennett’s son. Also shown in the photos are scenes in the West Fork area near Born’s Lake and a large elk killed there during the past hunting season. This is indeed fine publicity for the area and is of the type that could not be bought for any amount of money. Thru the efforts and ability of Mr. Harman, the San Juan Basin generally and Archuleta County especially receive much of this type of publicity. Mr. Harman’s strip in the daily papers and his comic magazine each have one of the largest reader following of any comic published today.
Work has started again on the leveling and grading at the new rodeo grounds. R.T. Harras, president of the rodeo group reports that the grounds will be ready for the big Red Ryder Round-Up this 4th of July. The construction of the half mile track is nearly complete and will give Archuleta County one of the finest tracks in the country.
Taken from SUN files of
April 24, 1975
Wolf Creek Pass isn’t through with the season just yet. This past week five inches fell at the weather station there, making the winter snowfall total 746 inches. The snow fell Thursday night and Friday.
It is warming up on Wolf Creek, though, and the snow is settling at a rapid rate. Snow depth last week at the marker went down from 10 feet to 9-1/2 feet as of Saturday. It has settled some more since that time. The temperature has been going up to 40 degrees during the days.
The Upper San Juan Regional Planning Commission wrestled with a proposal to recommend a building code for the county Monday night and then rejected it. After nearly two hours of discussion the commission decided not to recommend the code but did not close the door on future consideration of such a code.
Archuleta County Building Contractors Assn. had asked the Board of County Commissioners to consider adopting the code. Under state law, before the County Commissioners can take such a step the code must be recommended by the Planning Commission.
Taken from SUN files of
April 20, 2000
The first steps toward forming a road maintenance district were taken by the Loma Linda Homeowners Association. Tuesday, representatives of the association presented a proposed Loma Linda Metropolitan District service plan to the commissioners.
Following review of the proposal by the county commissioners, a public hearing will be held May 30 at 1:30 p.m. in the commissioners meeting room to sample public response to the proposal. The Loma Linda group was represented by attorney Bud Smith of Bayfield.
“A special district has to have two functions,” said Smith. “The functions proposed for this district are road maintenance and parks and recreation.”
Fueling the desire to form a special district at this time is the concern by some Loma Linda residents that if road maintenance is not accomplished soon, the roads will deteriorate to such an extent that serious, expensive maintenance will be required.
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