Tularosa News

Signing in to vote on the general obligation bond question Tuesday, Joe Jaramillo, left, waits as Jean Branch, center, answers a question.

Voters in the Alamogordo School District will go to voting convenience centers Tuesday to vote on school bonds rather than the polling places listed on their voter information cards, according to a news release issued by the Otero County Clerk's Office.

Darrell Catt pleaded no contest in Alamogordo's 12th Judicial District Court to one count each of third-degree felony sexual exploitation of children distribution and fourth-degree felony possession of sexual exploitation of children in a plea agreement with the state.

The intersection of U.S. Highway 82 -- La Luz Road and Florida Avenue between La Luz and Alamogordo -- is one of the most dangerous in the state.

A 28-year-old Tularosa man was charged Friday with taking a 2009 Ford Fusion after the owner left the keys in the ignition.

Scott Harris, Cruz Garcia and Jacob Ruiz slide cardboard onto the conveyor belt of a new compactor at the La Luz Convenience Center for the first-ever bale for resale in a new upscale recycling program at the center.

Kenneth Murray, 29, of the 500 block of Texas Avenue, was arrested on a New Mexico Department of Corrections order for an alleged parole violation.

Alamogordo Public Library youth services librarian Ami Segna Jones is in the process of reorganizing 6,000 books in the Children's Room by genre, so young readers will be able to find what they want more easily.

Trustee Fred Tyler, Trustee Patrick Garcia and Mayor Ray Cordova study and discuss documents brought to them by a resident regarding a water hook-up problem last year.

Two firefighters from Boles Acres and Jackrabbit Flats volunteer fire departments beat back flames that devoured an empty single-wide mobile home Saturday morning in the 100 block of Galicia Road west of Tularosa.