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By Arnie Leshin  Her senior high school basketball year cancelled because of COVID-19, 6-foot-2 guard-wing Saylor Roffenbarger out of Middletown High in Maryland, an honor student, decided to graduate in June and move on to college women’s basketball, which becomes an early gift for Geno Auriemma’s University of Connecticut’s undefeated, 4th …

By Arnie Leshin It will be home, sweet home this weekend in the division round of the National Football League playoffs. But it won’t be the same in these times of thecoronavirus pandemic. Protocol calls for restrictions, and for the four home teams the stands will not be filled with …

By Family Policy Alliance On Wednesday, January 6th, Congress certified Joe Biden’s election to the US Presidency. Naturally, this raises the question: What will the Biden administration look like? To be sure, the next four years promise to be much like the Obama years. However, the national mood is much …

“Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:30-31 If you’re feeling …

By NM State Parks The Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department’s State Parks Division encourages all New Mexicans to provide input on the 2021-2026 Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP). The SCORP is being developed with the thoughtful input of local, state, and federal agencies, outdoor recreation businesses, non-profits, and …

By Arnie Leshin  It was the year 1995 and I was covering high school sports for the Miami Herald. Broward County was my beat in the Sunshine State, where prep school football was nationally recognized as one of the finest in the land. Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale, just …

By SFNF Favorable conditions today allowed fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest to proceed with the previously announced Pacheco Canyon prescribed pile burn on the Española Ranger District today. The 106-acre pile burn is part of the larger Pacheco Canyon Forest Resiliency Project, a 2,042-acre forest restoration project that …

By Arnie Leshin One day after the Buffalo Bills ended a 25-year playoff draught and advanced from the first round of the National Football League season plagued by the coronaviruspandemic, the Cleveland Browns did the same on Sunday by emerging with their initial postseason success in 27 years as the …

By NCRTD North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) Fleet Technician, Keith Dalrymple, was recognized by the District Board at its January meeting for going above and beyond by providing assistance to a bicyclist who was struck by a vehicle in Ranchos de Taos last month.   Dalrymple had just completed …

By NM Game and Fish Raffle for Gould’s turkey enhancement licenses One authorization to hunt Gould’s turkey will be raffled by the Department with the assistance of theNew Mexico National Wild Turkey Federation. The winner will receive a permit to hunt one Gould’s gobbler, as well as a spring turkey …