Taken from SUN files of
January 22, 1926
Max Mickey returned home Saturday evening from Santa Fe, where he spent a week on business. The Mrs. Joseph Hersch stock of merchandise is being shipped from that city to Pagosa Springs, and will be put on display in the front room of the Legion hall for local sale.
These snappy cold mornings should be sufficient reason to use every caution to prevent the fire menace.
For the second time within two weeks Otis Snooks of Piedra bagged another mountain lion in that vicinity during the past week.
It commenced snowing Tuesday night, resulting in an accumulation of about four inches of light snow. Wednesday night it turned cold, the thermometers of town registering all the way from 12 to 28 below yesterday and this morning.
Taken from SUN files of
January 26, 1951
A light snow fell last Thursday but that has been the size of the snowfall during the past week. The rest of the week has featured warm days and not too cold nights and it appears as if the snowfall, if any, this year is going to be late in the spring.
The annual report of the San Juan Basin Health Unit for 1950 has been issued and shows the work in public health by that agency during the past year. Mr. Ben K. Lynch, Archuleta County representative in 1950 served as president of the board. He was re-appointed as county representative for 1951 by the Board of County Commissioners and will serve again this year.
During 1950 the San Juan Basin Health Unit had one of their nurses stationed here throughout the year. According to reports this week, the present nurse, Mildred W. Murray is being transferred to Dolores and Archuleta County will be served by the nurse at Ignacio, Elizabeth L. Rowe. This change was necessitated by a shortage of nurses.
Archuleta County is a cooperator in the Basin Health Unit and annually levies a one mill tax for the purpose of helping support the unit.
Taken from SUN files of
January 22, 1976
C.W. McCall, of “Wolf Creek Pass” song fame has been invited to visit here and ski at Wolf Creek. He and his wife were presented complimentary season passes by Glen Edmonds president of the Wolf Creek Ski Area. The McCalls indicated that they do plan to accept the invitation. By decree of Mayor Jim Cloman, C.W. McCall was also designated as honorary chicken inspector for the town of Pagosa Springs and the Wolf Creek Pass highway. In real life he is Wm. Fries, a TV advertising executive in Omaha, Nebraska who spends much time in the Ouray area.
One of the larger real estate transactions in recent years was recorded at the county clerk’s office last week. The transaction involved approximately 3000 acres of land in the Dyke area.
Sellers were Harold and Ruby Radcliff, who own the Dyke Ranch. The property involved is that portion of the ranch north of Highway 160. Buyers were listed as Keyah-Grande, a partnership. It is understood that principals of the firm are from Dayton, Ohio.
No plans for the land have been announced by the purchaser.
Taken from SUN files of
January 25, 2001
The closing of Valle Seco Road last fall was discussed at Tuesday’s regular meeting of Archuleta County commissioners.
Placing the issue on the agenda was Jeff Greer, a local citizen concerned about the closing and with a desire to keep the road open to the public.
Gene Crabtree, chairman of the board of county commissioners, excused himself from the discussion because private property owned by his family and crossed by the road is involved in the dispute. Because Commissioner Alden Ecker was out of town attending a Colorado Counties Inc. training session for newly-elected commissioners, only Commissioner Bill Downey remained in official capacity as commissioner.
County attorney Mary Weiss said Crabtree could take part in the discussion.
Greer questioned Downey and Crabtree, seeking to learn why two months elapsed between the time the commissioners learned of the road closure from the U.S. Forest Service and the time the issue was addressed at a commissioners meeting.
Downey said the time lapse was necessary while he studied the issue and the various related laws. Crabtree refused to comment because “everything I say has been twisted and the second side has not been presented.”
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