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By Arnie Leshin  Willie Mays is 91 years old and resides in San Francisco. He is known to have lost his eye sight perhaps a decade ago, so he is cared for in a house with medical care and the aid of family, friends and neighbors. Otherwise, he will go …

By SFNF Working hand in hand with private landowners, fire crews are fixing fences, repairing roads, seeding, chipping, and removing vegetation with great perseverance and fortitude. A break in the weather over the past two days has allowed firefighters to move further into the fire perimeter and make progress in …

By NM Game and Fish Catches of the week Alto Lake: T.J. Guillen of Mayhill caught a 31-inch, 16-pound catfish using PowerBait July 13. Bear Canyon Lake: Zavier Udero, age 16, and Zaiden Udero, age 10, of Las Cruces caught 11 trout using orange PowerBait July 10 and 11. Bill Evans …

By Arnie Leshin  Apparently women’s soccer has become another rivalry matching up with women’s ice hockey in the sports world of Canada and the United States. Ice hockey has been a rivalry between the two for ages, and whether played in Canada or the USA brings big turnouts. Soccer is …

By Arnie Leshin  Galen Rupp ran almost evenly with the guys up front. He knew the course, and being from nearby Portland, he was anxious to get going in this, the initial worlds track and field championship ever held in the United States. Undoubtedly American’s finest distance runner, he looked …

By SFNF The Española Ranger District on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) will close a 1-mile segment of the Winsor Trail just south of Forest Road (FR) 102 from July 25-27 to provide for public safety during fuels reduction thinning activities in partnership with the Pueblo of Tesuque. Trail …

By Arnie Leshin  America’s best 3,000-meter steeplechase runner Evan Reese Jager has come upon disappointing times in recent years, but he certainly returned to form when the world track and field championships were run for the first time in the United States. Monday was day four of the 10-day meet …

By Arnie Leshin It was quite a sight on national television in Friday’s opening day of the world track and field championships held at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon in Eugene. And right there in the spotlight was Chase Ealey, a graduate of Los Alamos High in New …

By Arnie Leshin  SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is now accepting applications for special sandhill crane and pheasant permits. Applications can be made through your online account. The application deadline for special sandhill crane and pheasant permits is 5 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 17. Successful …

By Arnie Leshin Every now and then Jim Thorpe’s name comes around, and when it does, he usually is forgiven of something that occurred ages ago. Already established as one of the all-time finest athletes, this time the Native American who passed away in 1953, has been reinstated as the …