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By Arnie Leshin  Enough about Raton’s football team playing a soft early schedule. Where these Tigers are located, just a few miles from the Colorado border, it’s not easy to piece a schedule together that will satisfy enough teams if they get a visit from Raton, and then the rest …

By Arnie Leshin  Little did Ossie Schectman know he was about to make history. First, let’s go back to 1946 when 11 franchises comprised the Basketball Association of America, the BAA. Two years later, four teams from the National Basketball League joined up with the BAA. A year later, the …

By SFNF If conditions remain favorable, fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) plan to implement the previously announced Borrego Mesa prescribed burn on the Española Ranger District tomorrow. The decision to proceed will depend on multiple factors, including resource availability, fuel moisture levels, air quality, ventilation, and …

By Arnie Leshin  Sorry Rio Rancho and Gallup before you, but Saturday morning‘s cross country invitational hosted by Albuquerque Academy can now be entitled the pre-state run. The change was made last year during the pandemic. Rio Rancho High, which became the site after Gallup had made its lengthy run, …

By Arnie Leshin  The beat goes on. Almost everybody contributed when the reigning state 3A girls soccer champions from St. Michael’s shut down visiting Santa Fe Indian School, 10-0, Wednesday afternoon for the second straight time in a District 2-3A match. Now 11-4 overall and 5-0 in district, the Lady …

By NM Game and Fish Catches of the week Bluewater Lake: John Luna of Albuquerque caught a 42-inch tiger muskie using a crankbait lure Oct. 1. Eagle Nest Lake: David Moreno of Las Vegas caught a 22-inch rainbow trout using homemade dough bait Oct. 2. Grindstone Reservoir: Evan Torres of …

By SFNF The previously announced virtual open house on the Santa Fe Mountains Landscape Resiliency Project (SFMLRP) this Thursdaywill livestream on Zoom, not Facebook, which will give members of the public the opportunity to speak directly with specialists who worked on the proposal. The SFMLRP “lunch and learn” is scheduled …

By Arnie Leshin  Boston Red Sox versus Houston Astros. They’ve met before and there’s been controversy, but this is a new step for both, with the winner heading to the World Series as the American League champion. The Bosox surprised the Tampa Bay Rays in four games of the division …

By Arnie Leshin  Once again, the Dodgers and Giants step onto the main stage. That’s right, while the Atlanta Braves, with the worse record in these playoffs, made their way to the National League best-of-seven championship and now await the survivor of Major League Baseball’s two best records. It’s 64 …

TUESDAY, October 12th BOYS SOCCER —  Pojoaque Valley at Los Alamos, 4 p.m.                                 Moriarty at Taos, 3 p.m. GIRLS SOCCER — Santa Fe Indian School at St. Michael’s, 4 p.m.             …