Bluewater News

Funeral services for Richard Benally, 64, will be 10 a.m., Friday, Feb. 5, at St.

All 35 state parks in New Mexico are closed Thursday to all access including both day use and camping.

I was born in 1918 in a small Mormon pioneer town of Bluewater, N.M. To make a living for our large family of nine children , my father had a farm like all families in town plus doing other cash paying work on the side.

Icy conditions on Interstate 40 may have contributed to at least seven semis that jackknifed between Bluewater Lake State Park and the Continental Divide.

Cibola County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Bluewater Lake and Thoreau resident on charges of child abuse with great bodily harm last week.

Garnett Bohannon, of Bluewater, was killed Wednesday when a sedan hit his motorcycle on NM 371, authorities said.

Several state parks will shut down and services will be cut in a variety of areas in response to a 7.6 percent budget decrease passed by the Legislature.

Harrison Schmitt Elementary School in Silver City was one of three schools in the state to be named a 2009 National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.