Pecos River Water Bills Block Vetoes and Costs Ahead
Southeast New Mexico lawmakers celebrate Gov Johnson signing water bills for Pecos River projects. Bills fund up to 30 million annually for water efforts with 4 million in bonds, authorize tax credits for drilling related water use, and fund salt cedar eradication to save river flow. A potential priority call looms if shortages persist, risking $300 million in Roswell area irrigation and industry.
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Pecos Valley
Gary Johnson
New Mexico
Pecos River
Pecos
Texas Line
Texas
Tom Turney
Roswell
Pecos River Basin
Dan Foley
Johnson
Sangre de Cristo Mountains
U.S. Supreme Court
Renfro to be missed as civic preacher leaves town
A letter to the editor laments Bobby Renfro leaving the First Baptist Church pulpit. The writer recalls his service to the City Commission on Aging and describes a hospice visit with care from Renfro and colleagues to an elderly client, praising their community spirit.
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Bobby Renfro
First Baptist Church
Bobby
City Council Preserves Telephone Building in Roswell
In a 7-3 vote the Roswell City Council saved the 67 year old Telephone Building at 217 West Third Street from demolition and expressed intent to raise funds for restoration. Will E Hall named Man of the Year by the Boys Club of Roswell. MVPs Steve Horton and Lolly Zamora honored. Goddard High boys tennis defeated Artesia 9 0 for their fourth win of the season.
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Will E. Hall
Roswell
Steve Horton
Lolly Zamora
Goddard High School
Artesia Bulldogs
Salt of the Earth remake flags Silver City ties and past strife
A remade Salt of the Earth draws less commotion than the 1950s Empire Zinc strike near Silver City New Mexico. The 1953 to 1954 saga involved Local 890 miners, anti communism fears, blacklists, and a deported Mexican actress with production moved by pressure from residents.
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Silver City
Deming
Empire Zinc
Hanover
Grant County
Las Cruces
el Paso
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
New Mexico Western College
Western New Mexico University
Gila
Hollywood
Mexico
Clinton Jencks
The
International
Congress
Europe
Moctezuma Esparza
David Riker
Jay Miller
la Tusa
N.M
Historical highlights mark March 10 across years
On this date in history, events include Bell's first clear voice transmission in Boston in 1876, Columbus's second voyage departure from Hispaniola in 1496, Parliament dissolution by Charles I in 1629, Jefferson's appointment as minister to France in 1785, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ratified in 1848, Grant becoming Union commander in 1864, the Salvation Army arriving in the United States in 1880, and axis broadcaster Mildred Gillars conviction for treason in 1949.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Boston
Bell
Watson
Christopher Columbus
Hispaniola
Spain
England
Charles I
Thomas Jefferson
France
Benjamin Franklin
Senate
Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexico
Ulysses S. Grant
Salvation Army
United States
Mildred E. Gillars
Sally
Washington, D.C
Sleeper cells feared as al Qaeda operatives hid in U S
Senate Intelligence chair Bob Graham and ranking member Richard Shelby warn of at least 100 al Qaida operatives in the United States an immediate threat says Mubarak echoed in the Washington Times. DoJ cites 560 terror suspects since Sept 11 with 327 detained or investigated and 314000 absconders awaiting deportation posing a heavy enforcement challenge.
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Senate Intelligence Committee
Bob Graham
Florida
Richard Shelby
Alabama
al-Qaida
United States
Graham
Hosni Mubarak
Washington Times
Son
U.S
Nelson
United State
Woman’s Santa Fe Trail memories from Marian Sloan Russell
A 9 year old Marian Sloan Russell recounts her Santa Fe Trail journey in 1854 with Colonel Kit Carson in Santa Fe and her later life. The reminiscence, dictated to Winnie Russell and published in The Colorados and later by University of New Mexico Press, celebrates women’s view of frontier history.
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Santa Fe Trail
Kit Carson
Santa Fe
Marian Sloan Russell
Trinidad
Colo
Winnie Russell
Colorados
University of New Mexico
Marian Sloan
Peoria
Marian
Will
California
Eliza St. Clair Sloan Mahoney
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
N.M
Kansas
Dodge City
Oklahoma Panhandle
Las Vegas
Pecos
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