75 years ago: “The residents of Animas City have been increasingly annoyed of late by an apparent resumption of speeding through town by motorists who seemingly are willing to be careful only while knowing that a cop might be right on their tails. Accordingly, the ‘city dads’ are going to tighten up a bit on traffic enforcement.”

50 years ago: “The Durango Ski Corp. has ordered a double chairlift. The first shipment of equipment which makes up the chairlift will be the pipe used for towers and it should begin arriving about the middle of May. The lift will take about 120 days to install. The Durango Ski Corp. hopes to have its final testing on the lift completed by the middle of October.”

25 years ago: “Purgatory Ski Resort is closing two weeks early after a difficult season with only 200,000 skier visits, two-thirds of last year’s total. Part of the problem stemmed from a lack of snow at the area. Officials began snowmaking in November but weren’t able to open until Dec. 2.”

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