75 years ago: “We don’t have to go outside Durango to get a house built or a porch remodeled. The construction industry is a hometown industry in our own town.”

25 years ago: “Dale Falk, a social studies teacher at Smiley Middle School, is a 10-year veteran of the profession who shared his eighth-grade classes this year with a 41-year-old student teacher, Mike Brennan. Brennan took himself and his 20-year-old degree in history back to Fort Lewis College to become a teacher.”

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