Roswell School Board weighs Pecos Elementary closure plan
In a special meeting the Roswell School Board discusses Dr. Amarante Fresquez proposal to close Pecos Elementary as enrollment declines pressuring state funding. The panel seeks public input while weighing neighborhood impact against high fixed costs of aging 40 year old buildings.
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Thanks for Relay help from Chaves County
The American Cancer Society Relay for Life raised more than $27 000 in Chaves County to fund services and research. Thanks are given to Dwight Dunaway For rest Tires Pat Harrington Marilyn Reid and Lee Willits for support with many sponsors including Curves for Women Coca Cola United Drilling PCNM Callaway and Sons First Presbyterian Church First Federal Bank Gilmore Ganaway CPA Quest Diagnostics Farmers Market Roswell Parks and Recreation Spring River Zoo Specialty T's Fat Dog Sound Sign Pro Southwest Airlines and other merchants.
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American Cancer Society
Chaves County
Dwight Dunaway
Forrest Tires
Pat Harrington
Marilyn Reid
Lee Willits
Curves For Women
Coca Cola
United Drilling
PCNM
Callaway and Sons
First Presbyterian Church
First Federal Bank
Gilmore/Ganaway CPA
Quest Diagnostics
Farmers Market
Roswell Parks and Recreation
Spring River Zoo
Specialty T’s
Fat Dog Sound
Sign Pro
Southwest Airlines
Roswell Booster Club honors 1977 Coyotes athletes
Roswell High School Booster Club honored the Coyote athletes of 1977 with awards for members Lesa Moore Jackie Boley Tammie Hall Susan Mince Joe Parker Charles Hicks Ralph Meeks John Grabowski Darnell Boyce Tom Bensinger Jimmy Meeks Gene Miller Mark Dinehart and Robert Avina. More than 100 students from Child Garden School joined the program Children All Around the World with Ceci Childress Brian Lester and Jennifer Kramer participating.
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Roswell
Ceci Childress
Brian Lester
Jennifer Kramer
Child Garden School
Turbulent PRC Race in New Mexico Spotlighted
Las Cruces hosts a high stakes Democratic primary for the Public Regulation Commission with incumbent Tony Schaefer, a party switcher, facing Jack Valencia and E. Shirley Baca. The winner contesting Republican Harold Foreman for control of the commission amid a district map dispute and shifting allegiances.
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Las Cruces
New Mexico
Public Regulation Commission
Joe Sheen
PRC
Tony Schaefer
Commission
Schaefer
Public Service Company of
Duke City
Jack Valencia
Valencia
James Hall
Baca
Harold “Chub” Foreman
Foreman
Senate
Congress
U.S. House
Ed Foreman
Harold Runnels
Albuquerque
Eastside
Southwest
Gary Johnson
Arab Americans push for support on Capitol Hill
James Zogby and the Arab American Institute led about 200 people from 22 states to lobby 45 members of Congress on neutral U S mediation in the Palestinian Israeli conflict. The article notes the contrast with a massive pro Israel rally earlier and a strong congressional approval of Israel backed measures.
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Washington
James Zogby
U.S
Zogby
United States
Middle East
Arab American Institute
Capitol Hill
Congress
Liani
Elie Wiesel
House
Dick Gephardt
Missouri
Israel
Senate
Carter
Cuba
Americas
Carter Urges Cuba to Embrace Democracy on Havana Visit
Former President Jimmy Carter criticized Fidel Castro on Cuban television for suppressing opposition and urged Cuba to join democracies. He referenced the Varela Project petition calling for multiparty elections, prisoner releases, and basic freedoms, while supporting maintaining the embargo.
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Fidel Castro
Cuba
Jimmy Carter
Oswaldo Paya
Community of Democracies
Carter
Sage
University of Havana
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