Looking Back

Five Years Ago June 18, 2015 Michael McFarland of Silverton was sentenced Friday, June 12, to two years in prison for negligent homicide and domestic violence in the June 6, 2014, death of his wife, Jessica, at their Minera Street home.

WAY BACK!

130 YEARS AGO From the June 21, 1890 edition of the Silverton Standard: THREE LEAP FROM HAND CAR; ONE KILLED, TWO INJURED. While running around the curve into Red Mountain on Saturday last three section men jumped off the hand car on the Silverton railroad.

HAND-DRILLING CONTEST, EARLY 1920S, 12TH & GREENE

Early 1920s - Double hand drilling contest at the corner of 12th and Greene, with the Benson building in background.

CENTRAL HOUSE, 12TH AND REESE

Central House lodging house, 1172 Reese Street, around 1900. Photo shows 12th Street side of the Central House structures, including 2-story portion facing Reese Street. (Now the site of the school’s garden). At the right the rear of the old frame high school building on Snowden Street can be seen.

Looking Back

10 Years Ago June 10, 2010 The Lackawanna bridge over The Lackawanna bridge over the Animas River was closed Monday after it failed an inspection by a Colorado Department of Transportation contractor. And county road supervisor Louie Girodo said he isn’t sure when — or if — it can be reopened.

Mountain Happenings

Monday, June 22 • Silverton Town Board, 7 p.m., Town Hall. Wednesday, June 24 • San Juan County Board of Commissioners, 7 p.m., County Courthouse. Ongoing • San Juan Regional Planning Commission, 7 p.m., third Tuesday of the month, County Courthouse. • Silverton Clinic, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Looking Back

10 Years Ago June 3, 2010 The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office is getting ready to set up barricades and mobilize a coalition of the willing for the annual onslaught of Fourth of July visitors.

MOLAS LAKE, AROUND 1930

120 Years ago From the June 2, 1900 edition of the Silverton Standard: PASSENGER TRAINS DIRECT FROM DENVER. Tomorrow passenger trains on the D.&.R.G. will be run direct from Denver to Silverton thus giving to our people a benefit of receiving their eastern mail twenty hours earlier.

TWIG EATER

A moose near Silverton. Criss Furman/Silverton Standard

Looking Back

10 Years Ago May 27, 2010 A criminal investigation is being launched into the disappearance of personnel files at Silverton Town Hall. San Juan County Sheriff Sue Kurtz said on Wednesday, May 26, that she has been contacted by officials at Town Hall regarding the matter.