Baseball season
The Socorro Little League season is tentatively scheduled to begin on June 4 and entries are currently being taken from now until May 14.
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Obituaries (05/12/2012)
CASE – Merritt C. Jr. Case, 86, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Socorro, NM.
Letters to the Editor (05/09/2012)
Volunteers made Tea a success
Editor:
We are exceedingly grateful to each of you who attended the 8th Annual Socorro General Hospital Spring Tea, held at Bodega Ballroom on Sunday, March 18. We enjoyed celebrating the centennial of New Mexico’s statehood with food that was specifically New Mexican.
Power hitters not just for baseball
Who could forget Frank Sinatra? Some say he was always getting into a fight. One night he entered a club and Don Rickles was onstage. Rickles said, “Make yourself comfortable, Frank, hit somebody.”
Diamond Warriors drop series to Horsemen
Facing the No. 1 seeded team in New Mexico’s Class 3A State Tournament was going to be a difficult enough challenge for the Socorro High School baseball team. The Warriors hadn’t been on the winning side of things since April 17, and to make it even harder for them, they’d be swinging the bat against a guy who put up three no-hitters this season in St. Michael’s Colin Friedman.
Steers track and field has strong showing at state
The Magdalena girls track and field team utilized teamwork, and the boys relied on a heavy dose of John Woods to grab eighth and ninth place finishes, respectively, at the 2012 U.S. Bank State Track and Field Championship.
Obituaries (05/09/2012)
MURPHY – Caitlin Paige Murphy. God called our beautiful angel home, it is to our great sorrow, she was not ours to keep, only ours to borrow.
Letters to the Editor (05/05/2012)
Many thanks from SOBTF
Editor:
The Save Our Bosque Task Force wishes to thank everyone who made the third Bosque Benefit Brunch a success on Saturday morning, April 21.
Food was donated by: Sofia’s Kitchen and task force members, and prepared at our community kitchen.
Avid gardener wins contest
Patsy Hicks had no expectations last December when she entered the Birds and Blooms Great Backyard Giveaway. At best, she was simply hoping for a six-pack of plants or maybe some binoculars. After all, the chances of winning a contest with more than 33,000 entries were slim.
Socorro brings high hopes and high expectations to state
The word "dominant" gets thrown around a lot in the world of sports. Almost every week it seems there's a fresh, new and unstoppable athlete or team that the world should feel blessed to bear witness to.
Team Socorro brings together a family of athletes
It’s 3 o’clock on a warm, breezy afternoon in Socorro, and Julie Marquez is standing near the southern end of Clark Field with her team.
BLM announces landscape approach for public land management
The Bureau of Land Management recently released an update on a bureau-wide initiative that is helping the agency evaluate and respond to public land issues, such as wildfire, energy development and climate change, while continuing to promote the smart use of the public lands.
Forest Service planning burn
The Cibola National Forest, Magdalena Ranger District is planning a prescribed burn to help improve wildlife habitat and forest health.
Co-op reform has turned the corner
Despite the antagonism, the hostility, the ugliness that marred this year's annual meeting of Socorro Electric Cooperative, there was some good that came out of it.
Water schemes and New Mexico themes
In New Mexico, like that trick of light that makes a highway look wet when it's not, things are not always as they seem.
Locals celebrate community, heritage
Every year New Mexicans celebrate Cinco de Mayo with family, friends, food, fun and music in order to commemorate the Mexican Army's victory over France at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. This yearly celebration has long been considered a symbol of Mexican pride, heritage and freedom, and this year Socorro residents get to celebrate it in a way they never have before — with a parade.
Letter to the Editor (05/02/2012)
Keep areas wild
Editor:
Each December, for my birthday, my husband and I make the journey to the Bosque del Apache and the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuges. When our daughter was a child, she’d accompany us — and the experience helped shape her love, care and respect for all life.
San Antonio kids visit seniors
Take 21 shining faces, boxes of art supples, a serenade highlighting the "Sound of Music" and a roomful of seniors and what do you have?
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Mariachi Music, singing and dancing at Macey Center
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in style, when Mariachi Buenaventura, the state's first all-female mariachi troupe; singer Reynaldo Maestas and the Baila! Baila! folkloríco dancers bring their show to town at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 4 at New Mexico Tech's Macey Center.
N.M. Senators support postal reform bill
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Senate passed S 1789, the bipartisan 21st Century Postal Act.