LOOKING BACK

Thu, 12/11/2025 - 5:00am

• Fre’zarian Harrison, Linebacker, won All District Superlative MVP

• Dae’jah Heath was named All District First Team Volleyball

• Summer Pilant was named to the All State Girls Volleyball Team

20 YEARS AGO

• Don Halter and his son, James, spent many hours customizing a 1967 Volkswagen

30 YEARS AGO

• First State Bank sells the coca cola plant to the postal service so the Post Office could stay in the downtown area

40 YEARS AGO

• Mayor D H Abernathy helped design and build Pittsburg’s seventh fire truck.

60 YEARS AGO

• New Mexico University student burned his Social Security card in protest of policies which require one to work for a living

80 YEARS AGO

• Steam locomotives traveled through Pittsburg on the way to Mexico, where they were sold

100 YEARS AGO

• 48 women were employed in the sewing rooms of the local relief organization