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Today's News

  • Jr. Cardinal Classic on tap

    The Robertson High School wrestling team and coaching staff will sponsor the Junior Cardinal Classic the last week of February.

    The Cardinals are coming off a runner-up finish in this past Saturday’s district championships in Tucumcari and are preparing for this coming weekend’s state tournament in Rio Rancho.

    The Junior Cardinal Classic is open to children in kindergarten through fifth grade.

    Schedule is as follows, with all practices and the tournaments to be held at McFarland Hall on the Robertson High School campus:

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  • Raton hangs on vs. Lady Cards

    Working for rebounds and playing heads-up defense, the Raton Lady Tigers scored a key district victory Saturday afternoon at Robertson, 55-45.

    With one week left in the regular season, District 2-3A squads are jockeying for position in the district tournament, which opens on Feb. 24.

    Robertson (11-14, 3-4) has been trying to keep pace with Pojoaque Valley for the No. 2 spot, but a skid could drop the team to fourth.

    A Sarandon Walton 3-pointer and a Shania Dorrance hoop provided Raton (16-8, 3-4) a 5-0 head start.

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  • Looking Ahead - Sports - Feb. 17, 2014

    Monday
    No local varsity sporting events scheduled

    Tuesday
    No local varsity sporting events scheduled

    Wednesday
    Basketball
    • Robertson girls (A,B,C) at Taos, 4 p.m., Taos
    • West Las Vegas girls (A,B,C) at Pojoaque Valley, 4 p.m., Jacona
    • West Las Vegas Middle School boys at Los Alamos, 4 p.m., Los Alamos
    Softball
    • LCC at Otero (DH), La Junta, Colo.
    • NMHU vs. Oklahoma Panhandle State (DH), noon, Cowgirl Field

    Thursday

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  • Highlands can’t stop No. 2 Mesa

    At halftime Friday evening, the New Mexico Highlands women’s basketball team found itself down by just six points against the No. 2 ranked team in the nation.

    On the road, no less.

    But over the final 20 minutes, the game belonged to still-undefeated  Colorado Mesa (22-0 overall, 18-0 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference). The Lady Mavericks outshot Highlands 52 percent to 28 percent in the second half to grab a 71-52 win in Grand Junction, Colo.

    NMHU slipped to 10-12 and 6-12 heading into Saturday night’s game.

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  • Riders collect first win of spring slate

    Luna Community College

    The Luna Community College baseball team took one game from No. 16 nationally ranked Eastern Arizona Community College on the road over the weekend of Feb. 7-9.

    The Rough Riders’ lone win was the third game of the series, 7-2. They lost the second game of the doubleheader 4-1. On Friday, LCC lost 8-0 and 10-3. The Rough Riders are 1-7.

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  • Board to gov: Reconsider

    The San Miguel County Commission is weighing in on the controversy over Gov. Susana Martinez selecting a man who is suing Highlands University as a member of the school’s Board of Regents.

    The commission voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a resolution opposing Gov. Susana Martinez’s appointment of Carl Foster to the board.

    The resolution asks the governor to withdraw the nomination and it asks Foster to withdraw his own name. Absent of that happening, the resolution states, the Senate Rules Committee should vote down the nomination.

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  • Blood-alcohol level not tested - Man gets 9 years for fatal crash

    Aileen Smith will never forget the moment her life changed forever.

    She and her husband, Zach, of Colorado Springs, were traveling on southbound Interstate 25 near Rowe in the SUV they had purchased six months earlier, and she had just texted her grandmother that they were back on the road after fueling up.

    Then there was the violent crash, and suddenly Aileen Smith, who was seven months pregnant, was surrounded by twisted metal and deployed airbags, her terrified husband asking if she was OK.

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  • Parson gets 2-year extension

    Gene Parson has been in education for three decades and it looks as if he will add at least two more years to his service.

    During a board meeting on Tuesday evening, the West Las Vegas School Board unanimously approved a two-year contract for Parson.

    “It is a good feeling and it is quite a treat especially since it was unanimous,” Parson said in a telephone interview on Thursday morning. “It is very comforting that those that hire you and put you in this position have the confidence in you.”

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  • State budget bill remains in limbo

    The Associated Press

    SANTA FE — A $6 billion budget proposal was sent back to a House committee Wednesday for possible revisions to try to break a stalemate over education spending.

    With the House still unable to finish work on a budget for financing state government, Senate leaders are starting to assemble their own budget proposal as the Legislature moves into the final week of its 30-day session.

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  • Looking Back - Feb. 14, 2014

    In 1964

    Friday, Feb. 14 — The Impalas and Percy Faison with Litra Romero, West Las Vegas Schools band director, as master of ceremonies, entertained the New Mexico House of Representatives and Senate Wednesday in Santa Fe. The Las Vegas musical group and Faison received a standing ovation from the House after performing Spanish folk music, rock and roll, blues and ballads. They performed, among other songs, “Blue Moon,” “Never on Sunday,” and “Los Ojos de Pancha.”

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