Alto News

They can be seen in vacant lots and along roadways spraying and digging up the invasive musk thistle plant.

With approval of the Lincoln County Commis-sion, work can begin on a dirt road to create a walking path for Alto Lakes residents.

The man charged in February with being the alleged head of a Ruidoso burglary operation has been released with conditions from the Lincoln County Detention Center after a hearing last week.

Public education will be emphasized as the first step in implementing Ruidoso's conservation and contingency program.

I want to thank a member of the Alamogordo community. Her name is Virginia Bonhorst.

Three weeks ago, a couple of women sat over a glass of wine at End of the Vine in Ruidoso, complaining about bailouts and Washington spending that they worry could bankrupt the country.

Digging holes through layers of cobblestone is no easy task. That's the task ahead, though, for the nonprofit WildEarth Guardians, contracted by the city to prepare a stretch of the Santa Fe River between Alto and Griego parks for a community tree-planting event on Saturday.

Duane Brown, of Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, P.A., speaks to the County Commission about the possible costs of roads in the Deer Park subdivison, foreground, as Kevin Powers, director of RBC Dain Rauscher Capital Markets, looks on.

With musk thistle plants beginning to show in fields, members of The Weed Warriors can't be far behind.

The estimated cost to individual lot owners tripled over an original estimate, but a proposal to create a special road paving assessment district in Deer Park Valley advanced Tuesday.

A burglary enterprise of nine people, led by a career criminal, has been uncovered by a joint Ruidoso Police/Lincoln County Sheriff's task force in a two-month investigation.

Before plunging into a costly university campus development for a film and performing arts school that may not fit the area, Lincoln County voters should be consulted, an Alto resident contends.

A 14-year-old male was referred to the Juvenile Probation and Parole Office for unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon on school grounds after an officer investigated suspicious activity and located a saw blade ...

Mr. and Mrs. William Turberville of Alto, New Mexico, and Mr. and Mrs. Pat McClellan of New Paris, Ohio, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Ashley Rose McClellan, to Mr.

Keeping his tongue firmly inside his cheek, Ruidoso Planning Commissioner Ray Alborn last week queried village staff about the criteria for approving rezonings and development projects.

After voting to accept a donation of land and a building near Angus for use as a county substation, Lincoln County commissioners applauded R.D. Hubbard and representatives of the charitable foundation formed by ...

Finally, front row center seats were mine. Although the theater was cold and dark, nevertheless, I had the best seats in the house while interviewing Larry Fisher, the current president of the Las Cruces ...

To provide a base for increased law enforcement and emergency services for residents of the fast-growing region north of Ruidoso, representatives of the R.D. and Joan Dale Hubbard Foundation and Rio Bonito LLC ...

Reluctant to expose Lincoln County to any added liability, county commissioners debated the idea of granting a variance after-the-fact for road grades leading into two intersections in the Lincoln Hills ...

Two disputes were resolved quickly during a recent 20-minute meeting of the Ruidoso-Lincoln County Extraterritorial Zoning Authority.