50 Years Ago: There was a special “crazy days” sale downtown Durango, involving merchants dressing up in crazy fashions to promote sales in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce.

25 years ago: A Fort Lewis College student was fined $250 in court for blocking a federal road in protest of logging in an old-growth forest.

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