Early voting kicks off, with mayor and council elections in most towns
October 5 kicks off the start of the regular local election season: The date is the deadline for...
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Tag: Mountainair
Who’s running for local office
Candidates Filing Day was early this week, and towns around the Estancia Valley and East Mountains...
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Celebrating sunflowers through art
Every year Mountainair hosts the Sunflower Festival, an art festival showcasing the local love of...
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Artist with Mountainair connection returns with show
Gayle Van Horn began his art career apprenticing as a teenager with Carl Von Hassler, a highly...
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Independence Day celebrations in the East Mountains and Estancia Valley
After a year of canceled events and quarantining, Independence Day events around the East...
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State announces drought conditions as July 4 approaches
After a year of canceled events and quarantining, Independence Day events around the East...
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Mountainair mayor surprised with wrestling belt
Mountainair’s mayor was surprised with a wrestling-style belt this week by the town clerk,...
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Forecast for the week of April 26 for the East Mountains and Estancia Valley
We will finally see significant precipitation the middle of the week. However, Monday and Tuesday...
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Estancia Bears rolling with big wins over Moriarty and Tierra Encantada
After stumbling in a season-opening 68-65 loss against Mountainair, Estancia High School’s boys...
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Mustangs ‘Put on a show’ in bowl game, crush Clovis Christian 64-18
With a light rain falling, fireworks bursting overhead, and “We Are the Champions” blaring over...
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Mountainair football routs Roy/Mosquero, sets sights on ‘Bowl Game’
Mountainair High School’s six-man football team continued its winning ways during this shortened,...
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Estancia volleyball outlasts Mountainair in emotional regular-season finale
In the final regular-season volleyball match for both area high schools, Mountainair’s Lady...
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Car chase ends with officer-involved shooting in Bosque Farms
A chase that started with a 911 call in Mountainair ended in Bosque Farms with Torrance County...
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Area high school football teams finally kick off their seasons—in March
After an extended offseason full of postponements, disappointments, and Zoom and weight room...
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Volleyball is back and it’s ‘like nothing any of us have ever done’
High school volleyball returned this week with the first competitions in more than 15 months....
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High schools gearing up for ‘fast and furious’ volleyball season
Moriarty After a fall season that was postponed before their first scheduled match and several...
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Area high schools finally return to the gridiron: ‘Now it feels like football!’
After Covid-19 sidelined the 2020 high school football season, area programs muddled through...
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Who wants to go on a Road Trip!?
“I quit my job and packed up my car and moved to New Mexico in 1994—without a plan or a job, just...
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Mountainair Holds Christmas parade and its first Christmas Cruise
In Mountainair right now, a town so small if you sneeze driving through you might miss it, there...
Read MoreThe Nostalgia of the Drive-In and Why It Might Not Yet Be Lost on Younger Generations
When older generations talk about the nostalgia from “the good ole days,” it’s almost guaranteed they’ll mention going to drive-in movie theaters when they were young. Being the ripe age of 26, I’d never experienced the...
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