75 years ago: “A new plane has been added to the group at the Durango airport with John Kelling’s purchase of a new Fairchild last week.”

50 years ago: “Fort Lewis College has recorded a 394 enrollment for the third, spring, trimester which represents a 6.5 percent increase over the comparable period in 1964.”

25 years ago: “The acute care halls at La Plata Community Hospital are bare: medical activity has come to a halt, and equipment is being stored in rooms where patients used to be. Many employees who have found other jobs already have left, but the rest have been taking inventory and packing supplies and instruments this month, preparing to liquidate the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and supplies from the public institution.”

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