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Time running out on settlement

Las Vegas Optic reports

ALBUQUERQUE — Thursday, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announced that 192 New Mexico homeowners still need to cash their National Mortgage Settlement (NMS) checks, and that a letter was sent to them on July 28, 2017 from Rust Consulting, Inc. instructing them how to request a new check if they did not previously receive one.

Checks must be cashed, or a new check must be requested, before Aug. 25, 2017 or the funds will be transferred to the State of New Mexico.

Senator in town
Nice catch
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Lodgers tax board wants to...

By Jason W. Brooks
Las Vegas Optic Editor

By a 4-0 vote Wednesday, the City of Las Vegas Lodgers Tax Advisory Board decided to make a change in the direction the city’s marketing dollars are spent.

Board members Allan Affeldt, Joaquin Garofola, Krutik Bhakta and board newcomer Lupe Trujillo voted to recommend changes with the city’s contract with Cisneros Design, a Santa Fe-based firm being paid a large portion of Las Vegas’ lodgers tax funds to help brand and market the city. Diane Ortiz was not at Wednesday’s meeting.

President committee still not...

The search for the next president of Luna Community College hit a speed bump on Tuesday as trustees questioned whether having a search committee is the correct way to conduct the search.

Trustees provided names for who they would like on the presidential search committee, including Sherry Goodyear of Springer, Sandra Madrid of Las Vegas, David Romero of Las Vegas, Joseph Griego of Mora, Herman David Baca of Santa Rosa, Matthew Martinez of Las Vegas, and Yvonne Aragon of Las Vegas.

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Navajo Nation upgrading alerts
GALLUP — A Navajo Nation official says the tribe is still in the process of buying software for an Amber Alert system for the reservation months after a purchase was under way in the wake of controversy following the killing of a girl.

Public Safety Division Director Jesse Delmar told the Gallup Independent on Wednesday that the tribe is considering different software vendors that they will interview.

LVCS sites should be ready for...

Students at Las Vegas City Schools are wrapping up their summer vacation as the first day of school looms, a week from Monday.

Many elementary students will start at a new school site, and middle school students will soon be housed at Robertson High School as part of the district’s resizing plan. The district closed Legion Park Elementary and Paul D. Henry Elementary over the summer.

Time running out on N. Korea

The following editorial recently appeared in the Jacksonville (Fla.) Daily News.

It’s as if North Korean President Kim Jong Un is doing one of those Verizon commercials repeatedly asking the rest of the world, “Can you hear me now?”

If there were any doubt before, the answer now that North Korea has successfully test-fired a missile capable of reaching the interior of the United States is “Oh yes, we hear you now. And we don’t like what we are hearing.”

Cowboys in RMAC cellar

About to kick off his debut season as New Mexico Highlands University head football coach, Marty Fine can at least look forward to laboring unburdened by high expectations.

The Cowboys were picked to finish in the cellar of the 11-school Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference gridiron ranks this coming season, according to a preseason coaches’ poll.