75 years ago: “Officials of the Fish and Game Department have begun feeding deer and elk in the neighborhood of Pinkerton in a combined effort to save some of the deer from near starvation and to save some of the fruit trees and haystacks in the locality from near devastation.”

50 years ago: “It has been almost two weeks since the last snow, but good skiing is still forecast.”

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