Smoke from the Silver Fire near Kingston, N.M., in the Black Range makes for a gorgeous but grim sunset Tuesday, June 11. The 18,800 acre fire was started by lightning Friday, June 7, and has forced the evacuation of Kingston residents. Firefighters fear the blaze may continue to burn until monsoon rains return to dowse the states bone-dry forests.
Las Cruces Bulletin photo by Jim Hilley
By Todd G. DicksonLas Cruces Bulletin
With the state weaning city governments off payments to make up for sales tax exemptions on food and medicine, the Las Cruces City Council began looking at a local option for raising gross receipts taxes (GRT) in a work session Monday, June 10.
During a period of public input on different options, Doņa Ana County Commissioner Wayne Hancock told councillors that he wished they would have put off this discussion untilafter the county’s...
By Todd G. Dickson
Las Cruces Bulletin
In the coming week, life at Meson de Mesilla will be much different with the arrival of the Fox Network reality show “Hotel Hell,” hosted by the volatile Gordon Ramsay, an experience the owner of the hotel-restaurant says she welcomes.
That’s because Ramsay is an expert, said Cali Szczawinski, who owns Meson with her husband, Gerard.
“Whatever he finds, it will certainly benefit me, so I’m very much open to his expert advice,”
By Jim HilleyLas Cruces Bulletin
Though the tennis players have moved on, promoters of the Las Cruces $25,000 Women’s Tennis Challenger are still basking in the aftermath of a successful and well-run tournament that likely will become an annual event in the City of the Crosses.
“I think it is pretty much a given (that we will have a tournament next year), said USTA Southern New Mexico President Don Hemingway. “We are planning for it now; we are definitely looking for a title...
By Alta LeCompteLas Cruces Bulletin
Veteran travelers Ernest and Lourdes Pacheco, from Las Vegas, Nev., interrupted a late, lazy lunch on Tuesday, June 11, at La Posta de Mesilla to comment on the expansion of the southern New Mexico travel zone from 25 to 55 miles north of the Mexican line.
Lourdes Pacheco said she’s delighted with any measure enabling others to explore freely as they do the state where her husband grew up and attended college.
Long in the making, the...
By Zak HansenLas Cruces Bulletin
Each year, on the weekend closest to June 24, the Village of Tortugas comes alive as hundreds pack into the small hamlet and enjoy a weekend full of tardeadas – late afternoon, familyfriendly parties – entertainment, live music, traditional food, dancing, a golf tournament, a Catholic Mass and, of course, the annual Turtle Race.
Sponsored by the Shrine and Parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the 25th annual San Juan Turtle Fest and turtle derby...
