This week’s Bulletin is packed!

Happy Thursday, dear friends,

Just poking my head out my office for a moment to let you know the new Bulletin is out and this issue is packed!

We’re very happy to see our dear friend Mike Cook’s byline on our front page again. A long-time and beloved staff reporter who retired last year, Mike returns as an occasional correspondent and we are happy to present his recent conversation with a Las Cruces legend, Barbara “Mother” Hubbard, and how she is still working to help match scholarships with students as she approaches her 97th birthday.

Also of note, we have some follow-up reporting from Justin on local leaders’ questions for Memorial Medical Center in light of a national report by NBC News. Memorial has rejected claims aired in the story about its care for cancer patients, but city and county leaders are asking questions and may even convene a joint session to examine the matter further. And we will be there.

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The No Strings Theatre Company, located in downtown Las Cruces, is closing its 2023-24 season with a 1987 drama dramatizing diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the … MORE

As Virgin Galactic’s space plane VSS Unity made its final flight before making way for a new fleet of spacecraft, Elva was at Spaceport America along with photojournalism intern Jewel Dominguez, and we have their report for you as well.

And lots more.

I’d happily flip through the paper in greater detail, but I’ll have to leave you to it: We’re working hard on “Life is Good in Las Cruces,” our annual local magazine, which is going to be a beaut!

Stay with us.

Algernon D’Ammassa
Managing editor

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