Yesterday | Deming Headlight
USDA lifts closure of county stockyard
Luna County Manager Kelly Kuenstler and county commission chairman Javier Diaz toured the Luna County Stockyard recently in Columbus, NM.
Sunday | Deming Headlight
Free Summer Lunch Program begins Tuesday
Close to a thousand free lunches are handed out throughout the summer months at various locations in Deming and one in Columbus, New Mexico.
Sen. Bingaman, Udall announce Columbus stockyard will reopen
After several months of working with the Obama administration, U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall Thursday announced that a cattle gate in Columbus is being reopened.
WNMU-Deming offers ESL, GED preparatory classes
These instructors are really excited about the classes they are teaching and engage the students, who are equally excited about their chances to continue their education.
Gun dealer in NM smuggling conspiracy gets 5 years
The dealer who supplied a border town smuggling ring that shipped nearly 200 guns to Mexican drug cartels was handed a five-year prison sentence Thursday along with a stern lecture.
Keith Schwarzer, President of the Deming Garden Club, came to Columbus Elementary School on Thursday with friends and a box full of gardening hand tools for gardener Gracie Jones to use with students in their formal courtyard garden.
Amparo Ramirez and her son, Richie, a student at Columbus Elementary School, accepted the $100 first-place prize in the Celebration of Life raffle in Columbus.
Thespians rally for village EMT service
It's taking the village of Columbus and talented friends from Deming to produce the musical comedy "Halfway to Nowhere," written and directed by Tim McAndrews.
Women charged in village fraud
Patricia Garcia, 54, listed as having a Las Cruces address in the Luna County Sheriff's Office report, was arrested Friday, May 11 by authorities in Dona Ana County on a warrant issued May 7. She was arrested on charges of fraud over $20,000, computer access with intent to fraud and fraudulent use of a credit card over $20,000. All charges are ... (more)
Cartels use students to smuggle drugs through busy border crossing
COLUMBUS, New Mexico --Customs officers along one stretch of border are seeing a spike in the number of minors caught trying to smuggle drugs into the country.
Legislative Finance Committee brushes up in area
Members of New Mexico's Legislative Finance Committee were in town for three days last week to get a grasp on local issues and to hear updates on education, border development, agriculture, security and other issues near and dear to Luna County and the bootheel region.
Mile Marker: Columbus Depot's Clock
Columbus, south of Deming, owes its existence to the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad, which transported copper ore from Douglas, Ariz.
Village averts water system crisis
Residents of Columbus experienced an unexpected crisis with their water system. It left all 550 water connections in the village, including homes, businesses, the Columbus Elementary School and City of the Sun with a loss of purified water.
Elephant Butte Dam: Irrigation shaped Mesilla Valley's history
For almost a century, the Rio Grande has come to a stop at what was once the largest man-made reservoir in the world.