Capitan News

Magistrate Court Judge Lorena LaMay ordered a 37-year-old Ruidoso man to serve a year in jail on an April 2011 conviction.

Capitan now has an official goal for the future, at least by state standards, after adopting an updated comprehensive plan Tuesday after more than a decade without an update.

Two brotherly priests serve their Dioceses of Las Cruces parishes pretty close together.

After listening to more than a dozen representatives of external agencies asking for help with their annual budgets, Lincoln County commissioners tentatively approved about $326,000 in requests, cutting more than $45,000 from initial submissions for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 preliminary budget.

"Last time I wasn't fully aware, didn't understand the form-based zoning," Cook said.

Sometimes someone becomes a symbol, sometimes a symbol finds a representative - as was the case when a little black bear was rescued from the Capitan Gap Fire 63 years ago, later to become the national symbol of fire prevention, Smokey Bear, until his death in 1976.

As the school year's end nears, graduation comes to mind. Teen Spotlite would like to recognize one of the area's graduates, Raul Villegas.

"Registered Brands of Lincoln County New Mexico 1941" is quite interesting. It only lists the names of people who own cattle and a diagram of their brand.

As the school year's end nears, graduation comes to mind. Teen Spotlite would like to recognize one of the area's graduates, Wyatt Berryhill.

During Tuesday's special meeting, trustees and members of the town's planning and zoning ordinance first had to establish exactly how much zoning would be going on - reports from the planning board side say not too much.

Smokey Bear, the iconic symbol of the United States Forest Service's message of "Only You Can Prevent Wildfires," will be visiting the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway on Saturday, Apr.