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Voters in Ward 1 handed a victory to incumbent Tonita Gurule-Giron in Tuesday’s runoff, electing her to a second, four-year term on the City Council.

The last time the two faced off for the March 4 election, Gurule-Giron received just nine more votes than L’Esperance.

This time around, Gurule-Giron increased her margin of victory, garnering 65 more votes than L’Esperance. She walked away with 55 percent of the vote.

Gurule-Giron celebrated her victory with friends and family at Plaza Burger.

By Russell Contreras
The Associated Press

A group of New Mexico judges sued Gov. Susana Martinez on Monday in an effort to overturn a veto that denied them an 8 percent pay raise, an increase the governor says too far eclipsed those given to other state employees like teachers.
A coalition of judicial associations, individual judges and two state senators filed the lawsuit in New Mexico Supreme Court to reverse the governor’s line-item veto.

Submitted to the Optic

In honor of Earth Day, Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance, along with partners Tierra y Montes, the New Mexico Highlands University Conservation Club and Keep Las Vegas Beautiful, will host the Gallinas River Clean-Up from 9 a.m. to noon on April 26.

This clean-up will focus on the river and riparian area along the Gallinas in Las Vegas, though there will be a number of volunteer crews sent up into the Gallinas Canyon, and the Friends of the Las Vegas Wildlife Refuge will participate at the refuge.

Silent Voices of WWII
Glimpses of the Past program, 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, at the CCHP/Santa Fe Trail Interpretive Center in 116 Bridge St. This month’s topic is “Silent Voices of WWII: When the Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met the Sons of the Land of the Rising Sun.”