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Today's News

  • Conserving water - Acequia liner at MMS completed

    Submitted to the Optic

    Construction of a concrete acequia liner was completed recently at Memorial Middle School. The concrete liner will help conserve water and prevent damage to school property from soil erosion and water leaks.  

    The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission funded 80 percent of the project, while the Las Vegas City Schools contributed the remaining 20 percent.  

    The joint project of the Romero Ditch Association, the Interstate Stream Commission and Las Vegas City Schools was completed June 28.  

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  • Power outage wreaks havoc at Highlands

    A power outage that hit part of the city late Thursday morning knocked out all power to the New Mexico Highlands University campus, wreaking havoc there for several days.

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  • Looking Back - July 22, 2013

    In 1963
    Friday, July 19 — The signing of a two-year lease Wednesday marked the beginning of a new industry for West Las Vegas. Junio Lopez, owner of the former Chas. Ilfeld building on the north side of the Plaza, has leased the first and second stories of the west side of the building to Southwest Properties, Inc. The site, next door to Northern Hardware and Supply Co., will be operated as a drapery factory and will employ 35 persons when it opens for business on Aug. 15.
     

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  • Looking Ahead - News - July 22, 2013

    Space available for People’s Faire
    The Las Vegas Arts Council has space available for the People’s Faire, scheduled for Aug. 17 at Carnegie Library Park. Artists, craftspersons and food vendors are welcome. Applications are available online at Las Vegas Arts Council.org. For more information, call Janet Remenyik at 454-1307.

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  • Weather - July 22, 2013

    Monday
    Isolated showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. South wind 5-10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent. Isolated showers and thunderstorms at night. Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. South wind 5-10 mph, becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent.

    Tuesday

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  • Interior secretary promotes wildfire prevention

    By Catherine Tsai
    The Associated Press

    DENVER — Federal and local agencies will try to speed up efforts to thin vegetation that could fuel catastrophic wildfires which threaten water supplies and hydroelectric facilities, federal officials said Friday.

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  • Garcia finishes seventh in national competition

    By Jesse Gallegos
    Luna Community College

    Luna Community College’s Monica Garcia finished seventh at the SkillsUSA National Competition in Kansas City in late June. Garcia competed in the dental assisting category.

    “I was pretty satisfied with seventh place,” said Garcia. “I was very happy to represent New Mexico. It was a huge accomplishment for me. I got to meet other dental assistants from across the nation. They were all really nice.”
    Garcia finished first at the state SkillsUSA Competition in April.

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  • Santa Fe Opera to present symposium on Oscar Wilde

    Submitted to the Optic

    The Santa Fe Opera will present a four-day symposium on Oscar Wilde in conjunction with the world premiere of Theodore Morrison’s opera Oscar.

    The symposium begins on Thursday with a keynote address by Merlin Holland, author and only grandchild of Wilde. The keynote address takes place at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe.

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  • Que Pasa - July 22, 2013

    TODAY HOY
    • Backyard Adventures, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. from July 22 to July 26, at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish Hall on the Plaza. Price is $50 per child and includes two field trips to National Refuges. Backyard adventures is for children between the ages of 8 to 12. Registration is open at the City Museum and refuge. For more information, contact Kristin Hsueh at 426-3204 or khsueh@desertgate.com. The event is sponsored by the City of Las Vegas Museum in partnership with the Denver Zoo Rio More Program and the Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge.

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  • Wasteful spending

    A report issued last week by Legislative Finance Committee auditors raises troubling questions about the state’s capital outlay process.

    The bottom line: The state spent about $600,000 to renovate and preserve an abandoned school house in Ribera in San Miguel County and then turned around and sold the unfinished building for $39,000 to the non-profit group that donated it in the first place.

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