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SANTA FE — Legislation signed by Gov. Susana Martinez will open the door for more people, including young soldiers coming home from war and other assignments, to apply to become state police officers.

Until now, New Mexico mandated that applicants have at least 30 hours of college credits to be hired by the agency, and they had to accumulate more credits on a schedule approved by the chief.

The search for the next superintendent of Las Vegas City Schools is nearing completion.

Five finalists were announced this week during the school board’s work session. They are: Sheri Williams, the outgoing superintendent for the Carlsbad Municipal Schools; Paul Gregory Rockhold, of Tennessee;  Eric Martinez, superintendent of Questa Independent Schools; Marc Space, superintendent of Putnam Valley Schools in New York; and Jim Reed, a former superintendent of Dora (N.M.) Consolidated Schools.

Dangerous fire conditions and the dismal outlook for the next few months have led San Miguel County officials to impose Level III fire restrictions throughout the county effective immediately.  

Volunteer firefighters have been called to at least 16 fires in the county since March, and county officials are worried that the high number this early could be a sign of things to come.

In 1911

Thursday, April 13 — The double funeral of Anna and Alzina Loeffel, the young women who were killed in a runaway accident on Monday morning, was held from Wagon Mound’s little Methodist church yesterday afternoon... The bodies of the sisters were placed side by side in a single grave. The Rev. Emory Loeffel, a brother of the unfortunate girls, who is enroute here from Luka, Ill., did not arrive in time for the funeral. For this reason, the grave was left open and men were placed on guard in the cemetery.