75 years ago: “The society reporter says she would know it is June, even if she didn’t have a calendar.”

50 years ago: “Mercy hospital is modernizing all the time. The newest improvement is an emergency room on the ground floor of the hospital. It is a spacious, light and airy room, so different from the cramped quarters upstairs off surgery.”

25 years ago: “Inmates at La Plata County Jail will soon be afforded due process in grievance procedures, they will be entitled to contact visitation at least twice a month and they will be able to work out on recreation equipment purchased from Colorado State University at least three times a week. These are three of the 12 new stipulations under the jail’s consent decree, a sort of inmate bill of rights originally drafted by the county in 1985 in response to a lawsuit filed by former inmate Ken Wilson.”

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