Today's News

The city may just have a couple of weeks to get its act together to receive $1.2 million in state funds.

According to a July 2006 letter, the New Mexico Finance Authority informed the city that it had until Dec. 31 to meet all requirements to get the money. Some of the requirements appear not to be completed, although the city had more than two years to do so.

The money has caused a big controversy at City Hall in recent weeks, with some fearing that the city may lose the funding altogether.

Las Vegas City Schools board members Elaine Luna and Philip Leger, whose seats are up for election in February, say they’re running again.

For West Las Vegas, Christine Ludi says she plans to seek re-election, while most political observers say Ralph Garcia will be stepping aside after nearly three decades on the board.

The only other announced candidates on the west side are David George Romero, a local businessman, and Mike Adams, director of information technology at Luna Community College.

The second annual Luna Community College Christmas Fair was the place to be Saturday. Las Vegans lined up to find those perfect gifts.

Melissa Lopez, Luna’s educational adviser and activities coordinator, said there were about 52 vendors selling everything from jewelry, fine art, homemade bread, cakes and goodies, and lots of hand crafted knick-knacks.

“I think it’s great because we have some pretty unique gifts here for people who have just about everything,” Lopez said.

Two trips over the mountain.

Two nice victories.

The Mora Rangerettes are 2-1 after beating Peñasco’s Lady Panthers 53-44 last week and then nipping Taos 39-38 in a rugged overtime clash this past weekend.

At Peñasco, the Rangerettes led 25-20 at the half before outscoring the Lady Panthers 17-2 in the third quarter for a cozy 42-22 advantage. Peñasco rallied, outscoring Mora 21-11 in the final period, but it was not enough.