Ruidoso Downs News

Ruidoso Downs' public works director sees some positives and some negatives in getting projects going and paying for them.

The 24 year old was told to leave. Almost two hours later police responded to the Ramada Inn for the same man sleeping in the hotel's lobby.

The Carlsbad Museum and Art Center has a new director, Peggy Jackson. Jackson came from the Hubbard Museum in Ruidoso Downs as curator of education.

A formal agreement between Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs, for fire fighting and other emergencies, is approved last week by Ruidoso Downs city councilors.

Trying to balance the investment of year-round merchants with the tourist draw of special events vendors and itinerant sellers presents a challenge.

The Lincoln National Forest continues its annual tradition of offering people the opportunity to choose and cut down a Christmas tree.

A report on criminal damage to property was taken. Oct. 20 7:13 p.m. - Police responded to a call of breaking and entering in the 300 block of N. Parnell Dr.

A kindergarten student was lost for a time Tuesday morning, after being left on a school bus that had returned to the bus barn in Ruidoso Downs.

As did the Lincoln County Commission last week, city councilors in Ruidoso Downs are asking the state to maintain a higher threshold for gross receipts tax distributions.

Recycling in Ruidoso is expanding. Last spring, Village General Services and Solid Waste Director Jeff Kaplan applied for a recycling grant and today 57 residential blue dumpsters are positioned throughout the village, joining 113 set up for commercial accounts.

Ninety-two runners competed October 17 in the third annual Ski Run Road Challenge.

Members of the Ruidoso River Restoration Commit-tee, tasked by the courts with selecting projects within a $1 million budget to improve the health of the river, picked Stream Dynamics as the firm to guide them.

When state officials cut gross receipts taxes in 2004 on "essential" grocery food sales and on medical services, they promised to make up the drop in tax revenue for municipalities and counties.

A new task dealing with reorganization was added Wednesday to the contract of the attorney advising the board that governs the regional wastewater treatment plant serving Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs.

RUIDOSO Ruidoso School officials addressed actions they are taking since the second teen death by suicide this month and third in two months at a news conference at Ruidoso High School Friday.

An inspection of the old village fire station on Eagle Drive turned up asbestos that must be removed before the building can be demolished for parking.

Lost in a sea of projections and alternatives when it comes to trying to understand proposed changes in wastewater treatment and sewer collection fees? The staff of Red Oak Consulting, who put together recommendations for the Ruidoso Village Council, recently produced charts that should help.

As a tourist destination, the Ruidoso area offers plenty of activities, festivals and rallies year-'round for visitors and locals, alike.

"Bad Girls" is the theme for the October Cowboy Action Shooting match of the Lincoln County Regulators and ladies will shoot for free.

Lincoln County Transit is moving to Ruidoso. By a vote of 3-2, the City Council approved the termination of the lease with Bonnie Richardson and, eventually, approved a new lease with Laura Reynolds Trust for the old Underdown Plumbing building at 2961 Sudderth Dr.