Alto News

Local musician Susan Landers Kolb is a busy woman. Whether playing at weddings, country clubs or local restaurants, she clocks in countless hours on the microphone and keyboard.

Requests from Carrizozo town officials for financial help with an animal shelter and swimming pool were approved by Lincoln County commissioners as part of their Fiscal Year 2012-2013 preliminary budget.

Pat Phistry, president of District 111 Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, throws a wreath into the Rio Grande on Memorial Day 2010 in memory of her husband, Philip Phistry, who was a navel officer in World War II.

After drought conditions in 2011 sent more bears into town in search of food, nuisance bruins in the region have been less of a problem so far this year.

Fees charged to collect yard waste will change in Ruidoso next fiscal year to reflect compliance or non-compliance with village forestry management rules, but exactly what property owners will pay still must be calculated.

Police and school administrators recovered a stolen pistol, fully loaded, from a student's vehicle at Ruidoso High School Thursday.

Action on Lincoln County Medical Center capital projects, including an ambulance substation in Alto, was postponed at a budget session Tuesday by Lincoln County commissioners until their regular meeting May 15, when an absent Chairman Eileen Sedillo will be back on board.

This year's ENMU-Ruidoso commencement convocation will be held on Thursday, May 10, at the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts in Alto.

A mountain lion, possibly the same animal that had been seen at times in November and January, has returned to a neighborhood in Alto Lakes.