Belen News

Michael P. Steininger, a veteran municipal administrator who has overseen finances for Belen and Ruidoso, will temporarily manage and oversee Sunland Park's finances, according to a news release.

ALBUQUERQUE - A Valencia County reserve sheriff's deputy is in trouble with the law Wednesday morning after being accused of raping a teenage girl.

Belen School ofificials say the Dennis Chavez Elementary student brought a BB gun that looks like a real gun to the school and showed it to his classmates.

On May 19, Gallup's The Juggernaut unchains SpeckFEST 2012. Check out the following killer bands scheduled to appear: Psychostick, Downtown Brown, Psykryptyca, Existence AD, Fight for Honor, Echoes of Fallen, Testify, A Malicious Plague, Dope Riddle, My Philosophy on Euthanasia, Womboz, and Tabloid Trash.

For the third straight day thunderstorms rolled through the area creating a flurry of weather and then blowing out of town as fast as they came in.

A former assistant professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology says the school wrongfully fired him because of his disability.

Daily passes and one way trips are going up $1 to $2. Monthly passes are going up $4 to $11. A daily pass from Belen or Los Lunas to Santa Fe will cost $2 more.

Normally when I get a letter or e-mail from someone who has "seen themselves" in my column, I write back, apologize, swear I'll try to do better, and promise as a penance, to bathe their Pekingese.