100 years ago
Taken from SUN files of
July 2, 1926
Plans are being formulated for a patriotic service to be held in the park Sunday morning, July 4th, at 10.30. There will be music, the reading of the Declaration of Independence, etc. The public is cordially invited to attend and help perpetuate an occasion we of late years are prone to let slip by unnoticed.
The Women’s Civic Club of our town is doing its part toward making our coming celebration a drawing card. The club will stage a parade at 9.30 Monday morning. Dozens of auto owners have cheerfully fall in line with decorated cars.
There will be floats, horseback riders, Shetland ponies, Rocky Mountain canaries, Indians and other attractions too numerous to mention. Everyone seems willing to help this move on the part of the Civic Club, an organization which works for the good of the town regardless of trouble.
The procession will form on Lewis street near the J.M. Laughlin residence and move down Pagosa street, covering all the downtown district. Think up some attraction and fall into line Monday morning at the hour stated.
75 years ago
Taken from SUN files of
4-H Club Project Tour. All members left the Bayles Schoolhouse at 8:30 to begin the tour. We went to Belmears to see Minnie and Stanley Dale’s pigs, then to Adams to see Virginia’s white rock chickens, to Seavy’s to see the flower garden work of Peggy Ann’s and Hazel’s on to Marilyn Johnson’s to see her chickens and new chicken house she has been working on. In route to Ronnie Turner’s we had one flat tire. We saw his calf, heifer, being raised for breeding stock.
After lunch we visited Franklin Anderson’s chicken, turkey and colt projects then to Aubrey and Stanley Fowler’s garden and home beautification projects, out of town to see Jean Macht’s steer for fattening and on to Judy and Ronnie Decker’s to see Judy’s steer for fattening and Ronnie’s breeding heifer, back in Pagosa Springs we visited Junior Sorenson’s vegetable garden. This club plans another tour in August to note the progress on each of these projects. Our club members square dance each Monday at the Bayles Schoolhouse.
50 years ago
Taken from SUN files of
July 8, 1976
Some low minded individuals stole flags over the holiday. These were flags purchased by the American Legion and displayed on parking meters in downtown Pagosa Springs. Anyone having any information about the thefts should report it to the town police department.
The U.S. Weather Observation Station reports that it was hot this past week, if there was any doubt about it. A new high for the year to date was set on July 5 when the mercury soared to a torrid 88 degrees. There were no freezing nights. Snow is just about gone in the high country, stream fishing is very good and it seems safe to say that summer has arrived in the county.
Forest fires have been numerous the past week, with 11 being reported by U.S. Forest Service in this area. Three of these are believed to have been caused by fireworks which are illegal on the San Juan National Forest.
All fires were less than an acre in size and were brought under control within a reasonable time but the Forest Service crews were kept hopping.
25 years ago
Taken from SUN files of
June 28, 2001
A black mark for the Town of Pagosa Springs is on its way to removal.
After spending 11 years working to bring air quality levels in line with Environmental Protection Agency standards, the town is possibly just weeks from being reclassified as an attainment area — one that meets EPA guidelines for inhalable airborne particulate matter including road dust, automobile and diesel engine by-products, and soot.
Town Administrator Jay Harrington said even though air quality issues remain, the redesignation will remove the negative stigma of being a non-attainment area.
“This is a step in the right direction,” Harrington said. “It’s nice to know that all the money and efforts put into air quality have paid off to date.”
Those efforts included paving 6.5 miles of unpaved roads, restricting material used in street sanding, increasing street cleaning efforts on U.S. 160 through town from U.S. 84 to 14th Street, and requiring new developments within town boundaries to have paved streets.
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