Taken from SUN files of
July 18, 1924
The new Putnam hill road is now practically completed by Eds. Teyssier, the contractor, and is open for travel to the top of the hill, where it joins with the O’Neal park road. Only a small portion at the top remains to be “dressed,” which will be done in a few days. The new road provides a nice, easy grade as compared to the old steep road. Instead of turning to the left at the west end of San Juan street, turn to the right and try out the new highway.
Larkspur is said to have killed about twenty head of cattle in a short period on the Pagosa peak range, north of Pagosa Springs, last week.
The family at Shield’s mill, in which was a case of diphtheria, has been released from quarantine and the shack has been destroyed by fire. There are no new cases of the disease, though the family at the Alice Noland ranch and the son of Fidel Archuleta in town are still under quarantine but recovering rapidly.
Taken from SUN files of
July 15, 1949
In the August issue of the Red Ryder Comic Magazine are several local photographs. Among them are pictures of Mr. Harman, creator of the Red Ryder character, Sammy Trujillo, several local scenes and a photograph of Paul Richards at a branding chute. Mr. Harman has the inside of the front and back covers devoted to photos and always manages to give this area and local citizens a good deal of prominence in the pictures. The magazine has an extremely large national circulation and the resulting publicity is worth a great deal in the country.
The Lions Club announced at their regular meeting Thursday night of last week that they are sponsoring the appearance of the Roger Bros Circus here on Friday, August 12th. In order to have the circus appear here the Lions have contracted to sell a considerable number of tickets in advance and to insure the club against financial loss all local citizens should make their plans to buy tickets in advance of the show date from a member of the Lions Club.
Taken from SUN files of
July 18, 1974
No more subdivisions, or subdivision regulation variance requests will be considered by the Upper San Juan Regional Planning Commission until a professional planner is obtained. This decision was reached at a meeting of the Commission Monday night of this week.
This, in effect, means that insofar as the Planning Commission is concerned, there will be no more variances, no more subdivision approval, and no more development plats will be approved. This could halt all development of that type until a planner is obtained.
The local planning commission has been meeting and considering requests without the services of a planner since March. The members of the commission indicated that because of the time required to make technical assessments of plats, variances, developments, and enforcement of regulations paid personnel must be obtained.
A planning commission can only recommend approval of plats, subdivisions, or variances. Final approval is vested in the Board of County Commissioners.
Taken from SUN files of
July 15, 1999
The lack of enhanced 9-1-1 emergency response capability during an emergency situation in Archuleta County might contribute to someone’s death, the Archuleta County commissioners learned while meeting in regular session Tuesday.
That sobering thought was presented by Fred Harman III and Sgt. Kimberly Crowley-Kinion, who asked the commissioners for help in getting the extended 9-1-1 emergency communications program operative.
Harman is communications advisor for the sheriff’s department. Crowley-Kinnion is head of the dispatch department. Dispatch comes under the supervision of Sheriff Tom Richards.
The implication of Tuesday’s presentation is that someone in Archuleta County is going to die unnecessarily because enhanced 9-1-1 is not operative. The primary safety feature of enhanced 9-1-1 is, when an emergency call reaches county dispatch, a computer automatically supplies an address to match the telephone number. Consequently, emergency personnel can hustle to the address, even if the call is terminated before an address is supplied.
