100 years ago: “Pleasant weather during the past week has made it possible for work to progress rapidly, both in the school and on the school farm. Practically all the high schools in this section have agreed to allow credits made at Fort Lewis during the summer count toward graduation.”

75 years ago: “Posting of flag men at the front and at the rear of each flock or herd of driven stock, on the highway, are requested by Courtesy Patrolman Russell De Salvo. This is the time of year that stock is starting to move to summer range.”

50 years ago: “Dale Drulis’s blonde good looks draw admiring glances. But her occupation causes people to stop and stare. She’s a woman welder. Actually, Mrs. Drulis is more than that. She’s an artist who works in every media and who now is decorating the new Holiday Inn of Durango.”

25 years ago: “‘Can too,’ Tom Mayer may have said. ‘Can’t either,’ is what his brother Jim probably replied. And from that episode of sibling squabbling between Tom, a cyclist, and Jim, an engineer on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge railroad, is replayed each year Colorado’s oldest and largest cycling race.”

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