50 years ago: DURANGO – Police Chief Cloyd Hubertus reported this morning. E.G. Parks, 1 Sixth Avenue, called the police at 8:25 p.m. Thursday to report someone seemed to have broken into a warehouse at the end of Sixth avenue. Capt. John Garnand and Policeman J.D. Baker in one car and Policeman J. A. Joyner and Henry Chilton in another found three 16-year-old youths in the warehouse. The hasp had been broken off the front door. A quantity of beer had been taken out of the cooler where Southwestern Beverage Co. had stored and stacked it by the door Chief Hubertus reported.

25 years ago: It was a frigid 6 degrees outside with 14 inches of snow still leftover from November.

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