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.
“I advised them to file a report,” Kurtz said, and she expected to receive such a report later Wednesday. ...
Silverton’s Assistant Town Clerk Anita Steck said her entire personnel file has vanished. And town Public Works Director Gilbert Archuleta has written an undisclosed complaint to the town administrator about how his personnel records have been handled.
15 Years Ago
May 27, 2005
Visitors staying in Silverton’s motels, inns, hotels, weekly rentals, hostels, and campgrounds can expect to pay a little bit extra this summer. Monday night, the Silverton Town Board of Trustees adopted a lodging fee. It will go into effect in late June or early July. Under the new fee, lodging establishments will be charged $2 per night for each unit that is occupied. Campgrounds and RV parks will be charged $1 per night, per unit. The revenues generated will help fund the Visitor’s Center and other marketing and promotional efforts.
25 Years Ago
May 25, 1995
A cheer went up from several dozen spectators last Thursday as the town hall’s new one-ton bell was hoisted into place. The bell tower went up in three segments, with the bell already installed in the middle segment. Meanwhile, the old bell still sits in ruin on the sidewalk, where it was left after the 1992 fire. It should be put on display somewhere in the restored building.
35 Years Ago
May 30, 1985
San Juan County Historical Society Chairman Beverly Rich and Eugene Lamkin of Los Alamos, New Mexico, display a restored miner’s lamp donated to the society by Lamkin.
Traffic on the road to Howardsville is limited because of a major washout on state highway 110 between the old Standard Metals office and the Mayflower Mill. The washout occurred sometime last Saturday or early Sunday, carrying a large amount of tailings into the Animas River. A plugged culvert which carries Boulder Creek under the road was the major cause of the problem. The roadway was built on a tailings pile in 1938, ‘39, or ‘40, according to Herman Dalla, who was a shovel operator on the project.
40 Years Ago
May 22, 1980
The Silverton Board of Education hired Marvin Paioff as music teacher Tuesday evening, finally and firmly shutting the door to any possible reconsideration of the incumbent, Paul Osserman.
45 Years Ago
May 30, 1975
Dogs got a reprieve at the Tuesday meeting of the Silverton Town Board when the board voted 4-1 to accept a petition from some 94 voters who requested the leash law passed last month be rescinded.
More than 60 bicycle riders crossed a finish line in downtown Silverton Monday, having raced and beaten the D&RGW narrow gauge train some 50 miles from Durango to Silverton.
Larry Perino, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Perino of Silverton, graduated last Friday from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.
