Magdalena News

Socorro Police and other area law enforcement agencies are investigating a pair of apparent overdose deaths that occurred earlier this week.

April 6

A Socorro man reported at 2:15 p.m. that a vehicle was blocking the entrance to the landfill area. The officer had the vehicle towed and attempted to contact the Magdalena owner.

April 10

A man in Lemitar reported that suspect 1 had suspect 2 confr...

The Village of Magdalena got an unexpected windfall recently when it learned it would receive about $77,000 more than expected through Small Cities Assistance funding.

After wintering in Mesa, Ariz., as Ohio snowbirds, we decided to take some back roads toward home and to take our time.

Todd, the director of Magdalena's London Frontier Theatre Company, is scrambling to ensure that the theater's doors remain open as funding sources continue to dry up.

A 29 year-old Alamo man is dead at the result of a stabbing that took place Wednesday, March 25, at a home in Riley in northern Socorro County.

Dishes piled up in the sink, dirty laundry went unwashed and residents were forced to leave their homes in search of drinking water early this week in Magdalena after the village lost its water supply.

Bull thistle, cheatgrass and other invasive plants are starting to rear their unwanted heads on parts of the Cibola National Forest, and officials want to get the upper hand quickly.

ThereA A's not much to see in Magdelena, N.M., except signs of the past. Socorro is a sleepy small town surrounded by deserts and mountains in central New Mexico.

But at least two prominent thematic strands might be suggested: the personal self, and issues of political and social justice outside the self.

The Dona Ana County Sheriff's Deputies, working in conjunction with the Dona Ana Metro Narcotics Agency, arrested two reputed Barrio Azteca gang Members Saturday.

Take a stroll around the Macey Center Art Gallery this month and walk in the shoes of Magdalena artist Estelle Roberge.

Bob Diven and friends celebrate International Darwin Day with a fiesta in song at 7 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. Feb.

With A.Z. as her initials, it's no wonder that Alice Zhang emerged as the winner of this year's Socorro County Spelling Bee.

George Van Winkle is looking forward to taking care of business. Van Winkle, who was unveiled Tuesday, Jan.

For six consecutive years, Los Lunas High School students have won the coveted title of New Mexico Junior Miss.

Construction work has temporarily stopped on Magdalena's new municipal complex, but the delay is expected to be short.

The best Christmas presents often come in small packages. That was the case for a Magdalena couple whose Christmas was made even more special when a little bundle of joy entered their lives at 4:10 p.m. on ...

Many families in Palomas are suffering and many of them are hungry due to the world economic situation and the violence in Mexico.

Selma Caroline Stendel Ferreira, 80, died Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008, at the Socorro Good Samaritan Village, where she had been a resident since June 2004.

She was born Dec. 4, 1928, to Roy and Charlotte (Loewenstein) Stendel in Magdalena, N.M. She is survived by her daughter, Marcia Bourland and husband, David Orlinsky, of Chicago; and her son, Randal Bourland of Socorro.

The eldest of three children, she also is survived by her sister, Nadine Williams and husband, Duane, of Capitan, N.M.; and brother, Gary Stendel and wife, Bobbie, of Escondida, N.M.; and by many cousins, nieces and nephews.