50 years ago: “Durango firemen answered a call at 10:02 p.m. Wednesday to Main Avenue and 15th street where there had been a fire in a car belonging to Orville Horn. The fire, out when firemen arrived, had been caused by a short in the wiring.”

25 years ago: “Archaeologists and law enforcement personnel have yet to turn any definitive stones in the investigation of the defilement of the Southwest’s most important religious rock carvings at Butler Wash in southeastern Utah.”

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