Today's News

Mora’s Henrique Chavez won the 1,600-meter run and the Rangerette track team managed an 11th place team finish this past weekend in the Fort Sumner Qualifier.

Chavez won the 1,600 with a time of 4:55.52; more than nine seconds separated him and his closest competitor.

Chavez ran a 2:04.87 in the 800, placing second to Fort Sumner’s Skylar McMath (2:04.32). He ran third in the 400 (53.42).

Luna Community College missed out on the chance of getting a more than $100,000 grant because it was late in asking for the money.

By 35 minutes.

For the last year, the college has handled a $110,000 grant for a program seeking to curb alcohol and tobacco use.

Recently, the college created a thick packet seeking the same amount of funds for the next year.

But Elaine Luna, Luna’s interim development director, didn’t turn in the grant until 5:35 p.m. March 22 in Santa Fe. The deadline was 5 p.m. that day.

The title above is no accidental allusion to Vergil’s “Aeneid,” often billed as history’s greatest Latin epic. The poet, who lived from 70 to 19 BC, says, in the original Latin, “Arma virumque cano,” or “I sing of arms and the man.”

So what does this have to do with former New Mexico Gov. David Francis Cargo?  Perhaps if Vergil were writing today, the hero would be named David Cargo, or “Lonesome Dave.”

My mother is Pat Harris and was talking to you about writing a letter thanking your city. She was thanking your city for the safe return of her grandson Nicholas Gage Kolb which is my son. (The letter ran May 22, 2009.)

He made a stupid decision and ran away from home. We live in Louisiana. I am currently having the typical teenage problems out of him and I decided to put the article in his baby book for if he ever grows up he can have. I just found the article dated May 2009. This is the first time I had seen it. I just wanted to thank you again.