Capitan News

A centralized rural addressing office with a new employee to handle technical privacy issues is being researched for action by Lincoln County Manager Tom Stewart.

Mayor Bob Forrest formally recognized four city employees for their efforts in rescuing a man from a canal on Oct.

A resolution in support of film-making in Lincoln County was placed on hold Tuesday as county commissioners asked for time to sort out representation and proper attribution for scenic backdrops and buildings.

The Carlsbad City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a resolution to request $8.5 million from the New Mexico Water Trust Board for improvements to pipelines originating from the Double Eagle Aquifer.

Ninety-two runners competed October 17 in the third annual Ski Run Road Challenge.

When state officials cut gross receipts taxes in 2004 on "essential" grocery food sales and on medical services, they promised to make up the drop in tax revenue for municipalities and counties.

In a major acquisition, Lincoln County commissioners Tuesday approved the purchase of 25 acres south of the county fairgrounds in Capitan.

"I've been threatened by the mayor. I'm leaving," said Capitan Trustee Jim Davis as he rapidly exited the Capitan Village Hall meeting room Tues-day, while Mayor Sam Hammons, Village Attorney Zach Cook and the remaining trustees were still in executive session.

This letter is in response to a letter in Wednesday, Oct. 7's newspaper and the many people who have caught me on the streets, at school, and in Wal-Mart. I am the Capitan High School Band Director.

The five top infrastructure projects for Lincoln County include a health care clinic in Capitan and a new district court complex.

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The failure of officials in the Village of Capitan and Town of Carrizozo to complete their addressing systems places their communities at risk for prompt emergency services, warn-ed Lincoln County Manager Tom Stewart.

Residents served by Laughing Horse Trail, and Lincoln County commissioners face a nagging problem common throughout the county - roads never built properly by developers.

A Capitan police officer will go before the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy Board in November, to refute allegations of misconduct made against him.

To Capitan Mayor Sam Hammons and the Capitan Board of Trustees: Diane Riska, Lily Wood, Curtis Payne, Jim Davis: As elected officials, you have a moral obligation to provide leadership, service and vision in the proceedings of municipal government for the Village of Capitan.

In a 3-2 vote, Lincoln County commissioners approved a 32.6-acre subdivision called Windmill Creek with five lots off Laughing Horse Trail within the three-mile platting and planning jurisdiction of the village of Capitan.

A rural health clinic for Capitan topped the projects proposed for a Community Development Block Grant application in 2010.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Landowners approved the design of channel restoration and bank stabilization work on the Rio Ruidoso, a representative from the Natural Resource Conservation Service told Ruidoso village councilors Tuesday.

Speeding through the village of Loving can get you a ticket and the Loving Police Department a plaque from the state for keeping its residents safe.