100 years ago: “The Animas River was covered on both sides from Elco to Durango by searchers for the bodies of two boys drowned 19 days ago eight miles north of this city. ... A funeral service will be held in memory of the drowned boys.”

75 years ago: “Elwood Nixon, a member of the Durango contingent employed at Mesa Verde this summer, was in Durango enjoying his one day per week vacation. Elwood says that the park register shows the heaviest tourist traffic in the park’s history, but that the experience of working in the park is one of the most enjoyable he has ever had.”

50 years ago: “Personnel from the Chicago press, Continental Airlines, Frontier Airlines, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad boarded the bus at Durango drove to Silverton, and returned here in the narrow gauge’s General Palmer private car. The group is on tour of various parts of Colorado sponsored by Continental and Frontier Airlines and the Rio Grande.”

25 years ago: “A noisy, three-hour ‘neighborhood disturbance’ at City Hall was not enough to convince the Durango City Council to deny a proposed apartment complex. Amid hoots and cheers from three-dozen supporters, 15 residents of the neighborhood south of Sixth Street took turns telling the city council members why they opposed the 12-unit apartment that would be built in a commercial zone at 343 East Eighth Ave. The commercial strip on East Eighth Avenue is flanked on the east and west by residential zones.”

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