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Today's News

  • Wagon Mound mayor: Utility situation 'disturbing'

    The village of Wagon Mound’s list of delinquent utilities accounts failed to include those of a number of city employees and others, the village’s mayor says.

    Mayor Arthur Arguello said in a statement that when he took over as mayor in March, he found a “disturbing situation” in which the utilities weren’t paying for themselves.

    As a result, he said the state had forced the village to transfer “substantial amounts” of money from its general fund to the utilities.

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  • New-look district this year

    Hello (again), Taos. Goodbye, St. Michael’s, Pojoaque Valley or Santa Fe Indian School.

    District 2-3A, in which Robertson and West Las Vegas compete, has undergone a major change in the offseason as part of a statewide realignment by the New Mexico Activities Association, the governing body overseeing high school athletics and other extracurricular activities in the state.

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  • Highlands expects more budget cuts

    Highlands University officials say they are facing the same budgetary struggles as other state agencies. But they say they’ve been working on ways to deal with the situation.

    Highlands University President Jim Fries said the school is expecting a 3.2 percent cut, which is the level that state officials have been warning.

    Fries said the reduction of state money would begin in September. He read a memo from state officials that said if future budgetary forecasts improve, budgets could be adjusted upward. The memo also said budgets could be reduced.

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  • Work of Art: Why the hand inspection?

    “May I see your hands, please?” Good grief! Is she coming on to me? I thought.

     Instead, she rubbed what looked like a small, damp orange Wet One across my palms. “Now turn around.”

    I did so, my anxiety increasing. “I meant ‘turn your hands around.’” I did that too. So the backs and the palms got swabbed, but what for? We’ll get into that later.

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  • EDC director plans to leave

    The executive director of Las Vegas’ main economic development group is planning to step down, but he’s not sure when that’ll happen.

    Roberto Rios, director of the Las Vegas-San Miguel Economic Development Corporation, confirmed to the City Council recently that because of personal issues, he would have to leave his position. He has held the job for 13 months.

    He said that given the bad state of the economy, he said it may take some time to find another job, so he may still be at EDC for a while.

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  • Editorial: Begin a new naming process

    No university has to name its buildings after people, but it’s been a long tradition to do so.

    Indeed, students and others often know the names of buildings, but they rarely know about the people they’re named after. So the names have very little impact.  

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  • College seeking six radio stations

    Almost three years ago, Highlands University applied for six low-powered FM radio stations. One of those would include a station for the university’s foundation.

    President Jim Fries said recently that the foundation’s radio station would be in Romeroville, southwest of Las Vegas. The university currently operates KDEP-FM, which is across the street from Ilfeld Auditorium.

    “The Federal Communications Commission has granted Highlands licenses for the communities of Raton, Clayton, Farmington and possibly Milan,” Fries said.

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  • Letter: Grateful for help in animal rescue

    I have waged a ceaseless campaign urging the community to participate in animal rescue, health, and safety and am pleased to report, I have seen the volunteers and the dollars come trickling in.

    I would like to extend an enormous thank you to the community of Las Vegas and the Rough Rider Motorcycle Rally for showing they care about the lives of dogs and cats.

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  • Editorial: Closure and healing

    It’s been a long two years, starting with some terrible assaults in a football camp outside of town and culminating, last week, in the sentencing of the leader of the assaults. The disposition of Michael Gallegos’ case, the last of six to have run their course through the judicial system, brings an element of closure. But not completely — parents of the victims have filed suit against current and former school officials, which means court cases and press coverage will continue.

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  • House filled with junk -- again

    The situation at Las Vegan Gordy Maxine Thatcher-Godfrey’s house has become something of a rerun.

    But it’s not a rerun her Tilden Street neighbors are interested in watching.

    Again, her house is filled with junk that she collects around town. This has happened before, when neighbors could see old items such as fabrics in her front yard and items filling her home.

    In recent times, an industrial-sized trash bin has been in Thatcher-Godfrey’s front yard. It’s there so people can deposit junk from her house.

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