100 years ago: “The May Day mine, which has been practically shut down for the past three or four weeks, has resumed operations and many of the former employees are going back to the property.”

75 years ago: “Miss Fern Anderson, Durango school art teacher, is in Ochsner Hospital with a broken back. A vertebrae was crushed when she was thrown by a horse she was riding north of Durango. Doctors said Anderson would recover nicely from the injury but would be incapacitated for at least a month.”

50 years ago: “Enrollment in School District 9-R has increased 46 students since the school term ended last spring, but it still is below the enrollment for the last day of school in the 1963-1964 school year. This year, 3,713 students have enrolled in the district’s 11 schools.”

25 years ago: “Two weeks before the cameras roll, staff is bustling behind the scenes to prepare for the filming of ‘City Slickers,’ a comedy/Western movie starring Billy Crystal and Bruno Kirby. And though the film company will be using no local stand-ins, observant movie groupies should be able to scout up plenty of film action. At production headquarters at the Iron Horse Inn, where Castle Rock Entertainment eventually will occupy 120 of the 140 rooms, the film staff is working more than 12 hours a day among phone lines, fax machines and equipment. On location at the Cool Water Resort near Vallecito Lake, wrangler boss Jerry Young, a 28-year movie industry veteran, is running 250 head of cattle trucked in this week from California to prepare the cows for the filming of a cattle crossing across the Pine River.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.