75 years ago: “Two local men are facing district court charges growing out of an alleged livestock larceny committed in January – the livestock in question being a cow owned by Dolorita Sanchez.”

50 years ago: “Snow, beginning to fall early this morning, caught Frontier airlines unaware and the flight from Denver couldn’t land either in Durango or Farmington and had to go on to Phoenix.”

25 years ago: “Despite a continued shortage of day care for children in La Plata County, not much has changed to alleviate the problem since the county Department of Social Services pleaded for help last fall.”

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