Carrizozo News

Delores J. Dickerson, 68, pleaded no contest to an amended charge of driving while intoxicated first offense.

They can be seen in vacant lots and along roadways spraying and digging up the invasive musk thistle plant.

Carrizozo children are learning all about recycling from Deborah Geary, a Carrizozo resident and member of the Recycling Committee.

Jennifer Shafer, left, of Carrizozo and Sara Rush, of Capitan have been named recipients of two 4-H scholarships.

Heavy equipment running at the old Cimarron Mining Corporation site in Carrizozo caught the eye of Carrizozo residents this week and raised a level of curiosity.

THE BOOK OF ELI "'Eli' takes place in a post-apocalyptic future, and in that respect, New Mexico was a great fit," says producer Andrew Kosove.

The state Environment Department has started cleaning up the Cimarron Mining Corp.

Quick thinking and well-chosen words earned Joel Ferguson, of the Carrizozo FFA Chapter, the top award in the New Mexico State extemporaneous public speaking career development e-vent . Ferguson, 16, will next compete for scholarships and the title of national winner in October at the National FFA Extemporaneous Public Speaking CDE, held during the ...

The Malpais team, at left, l-r, Brian Parker, Ashley Pruett, Tate Pruett, Taylor Blackwell and Kyle Goss, won the average in Saturday's Ranch Rodeo in Carrizozo.

The Ruidoso Downs Senior Center will not be closed, Lincoln County commissioners pledged Tuesday.

Next Tuesday, in Carrizozo, the county board of commissioners is putting on a public hearing followed by an up or down vote on the passage of a proposed county ordinance to attempt to regulate the business of hard rock mineral mining on lands owned and managed by the federal government lying within Lincoln County boundaries.

The check isn't written yet. But Ruidoso Councilor Michele Reb-stock Tuesday told advocates of an initiative to transform the village into a film production mecca that they have a "commitment of intent" from the council.

Lexi Lucero, of Ruidoso, shot a hole-in-one in the Sun Country Junior Golf Tournament in the nine-hole division in Carrizozo, June 3. The 10-year-old scored the ace on the par 3, 125-yard 4th hole at Valle del Sol.

The new District 6 FFA officers were named at the FFA State FFA Convention this week in Las Cruces.

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on a proposed high-voltage power transmission line to be built across southern New Mexico and Arizona.

He's been all over the world - Okinawa, Main-land Japan, Australia, El Salvador and the Philippines - those kinds of places that being a U.S. Marine would afford a soldier in an overseas tour.

Lincoln County commissioners set up shop in the lobby of the County Courthouse in Carrizozo Tuesday to take advantage of the skylights for about a half hour after a power outage threw the commission chambers into darkness about 8:30 a.m. Power officials said the outage covered the towns of Alamogordo and Cloudcroft in Otero County, as well as most ...

It was reported to the Ruidoso News late Thursday afternoon, the former basketball/baseball coach of Ruidoso High School, Billy Page, has signed a letter of intent to coach basketball at Carrizozo High School for the upcoming 2009/10 season.

What began as a one-day celebration now fills three days, June 12-14, with music, heritage, vittles and, of course, cowboys, horses and cattle.

Flames were leaping from the attic area of a small duplex-type apartment on D Avenue in Carrizozo, when James Verdugo was making his way home in the early morning hours of April 18.