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The Rio Gallinas School for Ecology and the Arts announces a live outdoor concert by the Round Mountain Bluegrass Band from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 6 at United World College-USA.

The family event starts at 4 p.m.  and includes a bake sale, jewelry and plant sale, face painting and other activities. There will also be a cookout with burgers, hot dogs, corn, sides and drinks for sale.

The officers of the New Mexico Highlands University police and security department have carried through on their threat, voting no-confidence in Chief Donato Sena last week.

Eight people were eligible to vote, and six of them voted no-confidence while the two others didn’t vote. The officers are also in the process of forming a union.

Several Valley Middle School students recently returned from a whirlwind trip to Chicago where each of them placed top 10 in the nation in their respective Business Professionals of America competition.

The group, along with students from West Las Vegas middle and high schools, returned from the national competition on Sunday.

In 1912

Saturday, May 4 — If when Gov. William C. McDonald, in Las Vegas this a.m. on Train No. 5, had any doubt as to whether the business and professional leaders of the Meadow City were in favor of staging the Johnson-Flynn match July 4, the enthusiasm over the prospect of the coming bout manifested on all sides today and especially in a gathering of citizens who met at the Castañeda Hotel, certainly drove the feeling of doubt out of their mind.