100 years ago: “The woods promise to be filled with candidates this fall. However, the job of school superintendent is not creating much enthusiasm. Education was not on speaking terms with the last legislature and the bill placing La Plata County in the $900.00 per annum column is not on speaking terms with the educators.”
75 years ago: “We don’t have to go outside Durango to get a house built or a porch remodeled. The construction industry is a hometown industry in our own town.”
25 years ago: “Dale Falk, a social studies teacher at Smiley Middle School, is a 10-year veteran of the profession who shared his eighth-grade classes this year with a 41-year-old student teacher, Mike Brennan. Brennan took himself and his 20-year-old degree in history back to Fort Lewis College to become a teacher.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
