Fairacres News

Highland Elementary School Principal Theresa Jones will become the principal of the new LCPS elementary school effective December 2009, LCPS Superintendent Stan Rounds announced today.

The committee appointed by the Las Cruces School Board to develop new districts for the city's elementary and middle schools presented its proposal to the board Tuesday night.

More Las Cruces schools are seeing a spike in absences among students and teachers this week as swine flu continues to spread.

The H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, continues to spread around Las Cruces. Las Cruces Public Schools Superintendent Stan Rounds said the school district will notify parents at six of its schools of an unusually high rate of absences possibly due to the presence of the H1N1 virus.

The City of Las Cruces Parks and Recreation Section will accept registration applications for the Afterschool Program's 2010 spring session from Monday, November 30th through Friday, December 4th at Meerscheidt Recreation Center, 1600 E. Hadley from 8:00am to 9:00pm. Parents will have one week to fill out one application for up to five children and ...

Students fill the hallways of Las Cruces High School as they head to their next class Tuesday.

In a turnout that was slightly more than 1 percent, voters in DoA a Ana County's unincorporated areas on Tuesday decided to extend a sales tax to support ambulance and fire services.

New Mexico students have improved their proficiency in math and reading during the past five years, but the vast majority of schools still missed state-established goals this year for increasing student achievement, the Public Education Department announced Monday.

The Las Cruces school district has promoted assistant principals Kathy Norris and Julieta Marta to principal posts.

Ours is a large family with limited and ever-diminishing financial resources. Every now and then I hitch up the red, American-made buckboard and head into town down far west Picacho to visit selected vendors for supplies.

A measure to allow beer and wine to be served in restaurants in the county appears to have passed by a landslide margin Tuesday, though turnout in the election was light.

A number of Las Cruces school district administrators are being shuffled this year, as part of the ongoing staff downsizing, now in its second year.

Hungry? Check out Grub Hub. At the re-opening of Guacamole's Bar and Grill recently, my friend and I really enjoyed our food, the atmosphere and especially the history of Guacamole's. The restaurant draws a wide variety of customers, from college students to adults.

Deliveries from a year-round farm in Albuquerque are answering the demand for organic, local produce.

Someday, a drive south past all those South Valley dairies won't require you to roll up the windows and leap for the "recirculated air" button on your dashboard.

With all the drive-by shootings, we need accountability for the failure to arrest the perpetrators.