Carrizozo News

The good news is that the smoke from the Whitewater Baldy Complex Fire will be far less dense Monday.

Ronda and Randy Dougherty, owners of Ran La Roca Glass are pleased to announce that they have moved into the Historic La Paloma Saloon and Museum four doors down and across the street from their old location, directly across from the Historic Court House in Lincoln, N.M. This new space will house not only the gallery but includes a working studio.

Requests from Carrizozo town officials for financial help with an animal shelter and swimming pool were approved by Lincoln County commissioners as part of their Fiscal Year 2012-2013 preliminary budget.

Free concerts are usually the purview of budding artists looking to make a name and restaurants looking for a Friday night leg up on the competition.

Jennifer Carter, 27, of the 1200 block of Bellamah Avenue, was arrested by courthouse security deputies on a Magistrate Court warrant.

After a tumultuous start to the summer for Carrizozo businesses and Chamber of Commerce, the town has come out a shop ahead.

A clerk reported that a woman, later identified as Jennifer Jiron, 40, came to the register with beer at 11:47 p.m. The clerk told her it was too late to purchase alcohol and Jiron set the beer to the side on the counter.

A second public meeting, on the state's proposal to reopen a juvenile offender rehabilitation camp northeast of Ruidoso, will provide for additional input from residents.

What an entertaining way to learn history! Third, fourth and fifth graders at Carrizozo schools were involved in a creative and fun activity last week when the classes joined together for a state project presentation in the school's multipurpose room.

Two feature films are using Northwest New Mexico this spring as main locations, a representative of the New Mexico Film Office said.

From left, Sarah Fergusson, Rylah Zamora and Victoria Ventura rinse off the last of a $7 bus wash on Wednesday at the Fire Station.

Voters in Lincoln County who have made up their minds and are ready to state their preferences in the June 5 primary election can exercise that right this month.