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Today's Features

  • Palabras Pintorescas: Staying true to football

    Would you believe after all these years of goofing off and playing around, I am still a tried and true football fan? And, yes, I am in a fantasy football league, and my partner, Kat and I plan to win big time this year. Yes, I have my favorite teams and favorite players, but what and who Kat and I pick and who we end up with are two different programs. So it goes in this fantasy world!

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  • Que Pasa - Sept. 18, 2013

    TODAY HOY
    • Story Time at Carnegie Library will not take place on Wednesday, Sept. 18.

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  • Reed-Deemer’s artwork on display at Highlands

    By Margaret McKinney
    Highlands University

    New Mexico Highlands University presents “The Art of Observation” exhibit of paintings by Las Vegas artist Kimberly Reed-Deemer in Burris Hall Gallery, with the opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the gallery.

    Burris Hall is at 903 National Ave. The exhibit continues through Oct. 10.

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  • Que Pasa - Sept. 16, 2013

    TODAY HOY

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  • Mora County Notebook: Chacon water problems and blessings

    Editor’s note: Ruth Fort’s son, Paul, is president of the Agua Pura Water acquisition board.

    The Agua Pura Water Board has been struggling with water system problems for several weeks. There have been leaks in the lines to the consumers. They would get one place repaired and turn the water on and then another leak would show up. Estevan Sanchez and John Abeyta, certified operators, have worked tirelessly along with the rest of the board members and community people doing what they can to help.

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  • Mora Community Calendar and Senior Lunch Menu - Sept. 13, 2013

    COMMUNITY CALENDAR

    Friday
    2 p.m. to 8 p.m. — Mora Community Leadership Training Institute,     Mora School Board Room
    Saturday
    8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Mora Community Leadership Institute continues, Mora School Board Room
    9 a.m. — Annual La Jicarita Telephone Cooperative meeting, Mora High School Gym and Wagon Mound Elementary Auditorium
    8 a.m. — Mora cross country, Taos
    5 p.m.— Mora Rangerette volleyball vs. Taos, home, junior varsity, varsity

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  • Palabras Pintorescas: Wrapping up the summer season

    Is summer really coming to an end? Time does fly when one is having fun, and fun we have had here at the ranch once again. Sharing nature’s bounty and nature’s beauty with our little people sure is fun.
    The little people can’t count hummingbirds buzzing my three feeders any better than I can. But they did take a lots of pictures of them, possibly for show-and-tell at school in the Washington D.C. area.

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  • Noticias - Sept. 13, 2013

    Submit your calendar items and notices to mlopez@lasvegasoptic.com
    • The Guidance and Counseling Program of New Mexico Highlands University is offering free counseling services to the community this semester. The counseling is provided by graduate students in the final phase of their training in the profession of counseling. The counseling is confidential, free and supervised by a training professor of the program. The sessions are offered on Thursdays between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. For more information or to make an appointments, call 454-3564.

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  • Que Pasa - Sept. 13, 2013

    SATURDAY SÁBADO
    • SolanoFest IX, Saturday, Sept. 14 at Solano School Gymnasium in Harding County, Dutch Oven Cook-Off from noon to 3 p.m., arts and crafts booths open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., dance to the music of Will Bannister and the Mulberry Band from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. For more information about the Dutch Oven Cook-Off, call 575-673-2326.

    MONDAY LUNES

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  • Que Pasa - Sept. 11, 2013

    TODAY HOY
    • Woodmen of the World Lodge 2 and the city of Las Vegas are hosting an Honor and Remembrance Ceremony, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11 at Carnegie Library Park, east side. Public invited.
    • Story Time at Carnegie Library, 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, in the children’s area of the public library. This week’s book is “The Little Rabbit Who Liked to Say Moo” by Jonathan Allen. Free and open to the public.

    THURSDAY JUEVES

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