Christmas season comes early to downtown Artesia

 Sitting smack in the middle of the festivities surrounding “Light Up Artesia,” singer Tayler Gothard had a unique view of the unofficial start of the holiday season in the city’s downtown business district.

Christmas to the glory of God

 Far too long Christians have surrendered the celebration of Christmas and Resurrection Day (Easter) to secular society. 

Policing fraud in New Mexico’s SNAP program

During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Texas and Oklahoma farmers who lost everything headed west. Before they joined the great exodus to California chronicled by John Steinbeck in “Grapes of Wrath,” they were hoping to find work picking cotton in New Mexico or harvesting beets in Colorado.

First Baptist Church offers tour of Bethlehem

The program retraces the steps of Mary and Joseph from their arrival in Bethlehem on what the Christian world now celebrates as Christmas Eve through the Nativity.

 Artesia Police Blotter

Information taken from Artesia Police Department arrest and crime records. Suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

Around Town

A look at community activities in and around Artesia.