It didn't begin with the ring of a bell in financial markets or civic parades or religious festivities, but March 2 was the beginning of the most significant annual event in the middle Rio Grande valley; opening the flow, as the 2020 irrigation season begins to nourish crops now through October 31.

The second of two public hearings will be held during the April 6 Socorro City Council meeting on a proposed ordinance to raise the city’s gross receipts tax by .25 percent. This would effectively raise what’s commonly thought of as sales tax from .0744 to .0768. This coupled with the county…

Life goes on amid the COVID-19 crisis and that includes law enforcement.

The annual Socorro Electric Cooperative membership meeting set for April 18 at Macey Center has been postponed.

New Mexico public education is shifting to a learn-at-home model as schools remain closed for the rest of the academic year, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state education and child care officials announced last week.

The Socorro County Board of County Commissioners called an emergency meeting March 25 to consider closing county offices, following directives from the State of New Mexico.

A statement issued by the Santa Fe archdiocese said church officials were “particularly concerned about the safety and health of our elderly, children and our chronically ill population.

The following items were taken from the Sheriff's blotter

SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials on Wednesday announced 48 additional positive tests for COVID-19.

Socorro General Hospital has prepared extensively to handle a potential surge of patients due to COVID-19.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it also takes inspiration and some serious perspiration.  As COVID-19 has proven to spread as fast and easily as a wildfire on the bosque, it is imperative that all precautions must be followed. Leave it to the enterprising scientists in the biol…