Today's News

Pigeon fancier Fernando Montoya loves sharing his hobby with children and the kids love to see the birds take flight knowing they are headed home to a clean and safe loft.

Montoya was showing his birds to children attending the 21st Century after-school program explaining both the joy of seeing his birds return home and the work it takes to maintain a healthy flock.

In the San Miguel County Commission’s mind, it’s the big, bad wolf. Others disagree.

Last week, the commission voted unanimously to ban the wolf — domestic and wild — from the county.

A month earlier, ranchers had asked the commission to pass such a change to its ordinances, saying that the animals would pose a threat to their livestock. It’s based on a fear that the federal government will launch a Mexican wolf reintroduction program in northern New Mexico, as it has done in the Gila National Forest in the southern part of the state.

A disciplined and serious — and lighthearted — group of young people prowled and pounced around the wood-floored room. They were practicing a song from the musical Cats. Clear strong voices filled the air. This group of sixteen singers from the West Las Vegas High School Honors Choir will delight music-lovers at the City of Las Vegas Museum on Wednesday, May 21, at 6 p.m. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the City of Las Vegas Museum.

Bengie Regensberg, a District 68 state representative candidate, says there’s no doubt where he lives — Cleveland, just north of Mora.

But he said there’s a big question about where his rival, Thomas Garcia, resides.

The men are running against each other in the June 3 Democratic primary.