Mayor-elect Richard Berry picked three new department directors on Monday, including the re-hiring of retired city Treasurer Lou Hoffman.
Hoffman, who served as treasurer from 1987-2006, will be Berry's director of finance and administrative services. Hoffman supported Richard Romero's campaign for mayor, but his experience and knowledge of city finances was apparently too much for Berry to pas
Carlsbad High School Dance Company will perform with other dance groups from around the U.S.
The Carlsbad High School Dance Company will be performing during the nationally televised Orange Bowl halftime show on Jan. 5, the Carlsbad Current-Argus reported.
The group, which performed at the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl last year in California, has been invited to perform at the Orange Bowl in Flo
San Mateo mine site is northeast of Grants on Cibola National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service, which is developing an environmental cleanup plan for the San Mateo Uranium Mine site northeast of Grants, is seeking public input and comments on its engineering evaluation/cost analysis and the recommended cleanup alternative.
The Forest Service said Monday that it prepared the engineering evaluation
Man also fired from job at the county jail after allegedly starting a fight with a prisoner
A man accused of starting a fight with a prisoner while working as a detention officer at the Curry County jail has been fired and is facing a battery charge, the Clovis News Journal reported.
The newspaper reported that according to a news release from the Curry County Sheriff's Office, Nikelas Zamora,
Bids are being accepted for project funded by federal stimulus money to rebuild fence around refuge's perimeter
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expects it will cost from $500,000 to $1 million to rebuild a fence around the perimeter of Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge near Socorro.
The federal agency said Monday in a news release that it is accepting bids for the project that is being fund
A University of Arizona graduate student with ties to Albuquerque is one of 32 Americans chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2010.
Justine Schluntz, 22, told The Associated Press she started crying when she found out she had been selected.
"After spending the day with the other 11 finalists in my district, it was just impossible to guess who would win because everyone was so accomplished," she said.
Environmental Protection Agency says it has awarded $65,000 to the pueblo
Sandia Pueblo will receive $65,000 in federal money to use for the pueblo's water pollution control program, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday.
The federal agency said in a news release that it has awarded the money to the pueblo.
The news release said that surface water sampling on pueblo lands will
Visits to schools by Isotopes' mascot are in conjunction with team's Student Art Calendar Contest
Orbit, the Albuquerque Isotopes' mascot, will be visiting some New Mexico schools to congratulate students who had their artwork selected for this year's calendar.
The Isotopes, Albuquerque's Pacific Coast League baseball team, said in a news release Monday that the visits also are to thank the sch
