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By Arnie Leshin  It’s profoundly gratifying. It’s a boast to our National Pastime. It’s Major League Baseball finally reaching out to reclassify the Negro Leagues, granting MLB status a century after their founding. Some say it’s correcting a longtime oversight, that MLB, in the eventful year of 1969, viewed the …

By SFNF All Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) offices will be closed Thursday, Dec. 24, Friday, Dec. 25, and Friday, Jan. 1, in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. President Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11 to make Christmas Eve a federal holiday this year. …

By NMDOH The New Mexico Department of Health on Wednesday announced the updated statewide COVID-19 map for the two-week period beginning Dec. 16, with all 33 counties at the Red Level. Twenty-seven counties, however, improved in at least one of the two health gating criteria metrics, and 23 improved in …

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.” Philippians 4:4 This bible passage is pretty clear cut. God is so amazing. He is the all knowing, all powerful, heavenly father that knows each and every one of us. He calls us by name, we are his children whom …

By NCRTD Beginning Thursday, December 17, the North Central Regional Transit District’s (NCRTD) RTD Blue Bus will begin a contracted pilot bus transit service between Holman in Mora County and the City of Las Vegas in San Miguel County. The route will operate two days a week on Tuesday and …

By Arnie Leshin  Odds can be surprising, especially in the 10 college conference football championships to be played Friday and Saturday, and these are just the opening odds. In the Atlantic Coast Conference, where 2nd-ranked Notre Dame turned back visiting, top-ranked Clemson, it’s now the Tigers, with the return of All-America …

By NM Game and Fish Catches of the week Bear Canyon Lake: Benjamin Abeyta of Silver City caught a 17.5-inch rainbow trout using garlic PowerBait Dec. 12. Carlsbad Municipal Lake: Ciera Navarrette of Carlsbad caught an 18-inch rainbow trout using white PowerBait Dec. 9. Jemez River: Grayson Baca, age 3, …

By Arnie Leshin  Are the Atlanta Braves next? This comes after the Cleveland Indians announced they are changing their name after 105 years. In an announcement Sunday night, it was learned that the Major League baseball team are moving away from a name considered racist for decades. It will also …

By Arnie Leshin  Here’s Sunday’s National Football League NFC East wrap. The Dallas Cowboys, the Washington Football Team, the Philadelphia Eagles took care of business. The frontrunning New York Giants did not and no longer holds the top spot. And now with each having three more games in the hunt …

By NM DVS The New Mexico Department of Veterans Services (DVS) is asking New Mexicans to help it launch Operation Holiday Cheer to bring season’s greetings to residents and staff of the New Mexico State Veterans Home in Truth or Consequences.   To take part in this first-ever operation, DVS …