Today's News

Union Elementary second-graders Sammy Vigil, Gabriella Gonzales and their classmates at the school learned about cooperation, acting responsibly, how to prevent conflicts and how to demonstrate tolerance among their peers.

Partners in Character Education director Gloria Ortega-Romero said the Stop and Think curriculum was recently featured in an article as being supported by President-elect Barack Obama and features 10 basic and 10 advanced social skills at each of the four developmental levels.

City officials are reopening the lines of communication with a federal housing official whom they previously said they didn’t want to see.

Floyd Duran, a top official in New Mexico for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, is set to speak to the City Council at its meeting at 5:30 p.m. today.

In October, one of Duran’s former subordinates accused Duran of trying to “torpedo” the Las Vegas housing authority because he believes local politicians are inherently corrupt.

City officials expect to see an increase in residents’ heating bills.

City utilities director George Du Four asked the mayor and the City Council for permission to negotiate prices with natural gas provider Zia Natural Gas Company during a recent meeting.

The request centered on a discussion of the increase in the city’s cost of natural gas by Zia and the current cost to customers to avoid operating in a deficit.

Luke McPeek, New Mexico Highlands' 197-pounder, came home with the Outstanding Wrestler award for upper weight divisions among non-Division I grapplers in this past weekend's Lone Star Duals in Grand Prairie, Texas.

Nineteen schools participated in the event. Highlands, coached by Doug Moses, competed head to head against Oklahoma City College (a 32-12 loss), Central Oklahoma (a 42-6 loss) and Wisconsin-Stevens Point (a 39-9 loss).