Blanco News

Larry and Cynthia Martinez of Blanco, claimed the nation's first $1 million prize in the new Powerball game launched Sunday.

Marquez, formerly a social studies teacher at Tse'Bit'Ai Middle School, was appointed to the position July 25 as part of a massive restructuring of the district's administrative ranks.

A district judge in Las Cruces named Bob Martin, a retired banker from Silver City, to manage the utility - a move that removes control from the utility's owner and president, Stephen Blanco, according to New Mexico Public Regulation Commissioner Jason Marks.