Around Town

 A look at community events around Artesia.

Warming trend awaits New Mexico anglers

Winter Storm Fern brought snow and colder temperatures to parts of New Mexico last weekend. Projected mild temperatures should attract anglers to their favorite lake or stream this week.

Tie legislator pay to performance

Legislators, feeling sorry for themselves, also helped themselves to taxpayer money to provide for a legislative assistant for each one, a move touted loudly by legislators as a step in “professionalizing” the legislature.

Winter storm brings relief to New Mexico ski resorts

The 2025-2026 ski season in New Mexico has been hindered by mild temperatures and sporadic snowfall but last weekend’s winter storm offered hope for the remainder of the season as resorts benefited from arctic air that brought heavy snowfall, said the executive director of the trade organization Ski New Mexico.

Political power and US growth

It seems like a decade has happened this past month, from Nicolás Maduro being captured in Venezuela to President Trump’s rhetoric on the conquest of Greenland. Maduro says he was kidnapped. Some say it was a misuse of military power. The EU nations claim President Trump is destroying NATO to assuage his ego, which is demanding Greenland come under U.S. control. Like it or not, politics has always been and remains a power game of negotiations.

Dems block renewable energy tax bill

Following a half-hour of discussion and comments from the public, the House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee voted 6-4 on Tuesday, Jan. 27 to table House Bill 113.

Freshman cheerleader sings national anthem

In front of a packed house at the Bulldog Pit before the Artesia boys basketball game against Valencia, public address announcer Tony Jaramillo asked everyone to stand for the national anthem.