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Thursday, Sept. 5 — The 53rd Wagon Mound bean Day celebration has come and gone and proved to be a qualified success. Labor Day was bright and sunny and not overly warm so that the fear anyone had entertained of a spoiled holiday vanished with the early morning. Prize-winning floats were J.D. Schmidt’s Auto Service, “85” Cafe, La Pasada Cafe and Levi’s Texaco.
 

Friday
Sunny, with a high near 84. Light southwest wind becoming south 10-15 mph in the morning. Partly cloudy at night, with a low around 54. South wind 5-15 mph.

Saturday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. South wind 5-15 mph. A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms at night. Partly cloudy, with a low around 56.

Sunday
A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms at night. Partly cloudy, with a low around 55.

The Associated Press

LOS ALAMOS — A northern New Mexico county became the eighth in the state on Wednesday to clear the way for same-sex couples to be married.

The Los Alamos County clerk’s office issued a marriage license to a lesbian couple shortly after a state district judge upheld a decision requiring that to happen.

Janet Newton and Maria Thibodeau were denied a license last week and filed a lawsuit that led to a ruling by District Court Judge Sheri Raphaelson that same-sex couples are entitled to be married in New Mexico.

The Associated Press

Whooping cough has sickened more than 300 people in New Mexico this year, a drop from last year’s record pace, but still a high enough rate that state health officials have expressed concern.

The Albuquerque Journal reports that so far this year 343 people have had pertussis. The New Mexico Department of Health says the bacterial illness has hospitalized 17 New Mexicans, including 11 infants. No pertussis deaths have been reported.

Whooping cough had sickened 519 New Mexicans through Aug. 28, last year.