Deming News

A graveside service will be held on Friday, July 25 at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Bridgewater at 3 p.m., for David Woodward, 51, who died unexpectedly on July 20. He is survived by four brothers; Milo of Deming, New Mexico, Lawrence of White River.

Children and adults are finding the Sam Baca Aquatic Center is a good way to beat the heat in Deming.

Courtesy Photo Employees of Smith and Aguirre Construction Company in Las Cruces are near completion of the Safe Routes to School project at Ruben S. Torres Elementary School.

Deryk "Buzz" Perales pulled a Deming Double by capturing the Rio Mimbres Invitational Golf Tournament Championship on the heels of the men's club championship at the course.

Sign-ups for the fall season of the Deming Soccer League will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Deming High School's main campus lobby.

The Luna County Board of Commissioners will consider a resolution Thursday declaring the week of July 14 as New Mexico Hunger Week.

The Lawell family designs bracelets to place in Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes.

Two teenage boys accused of burglarizing a local convenience store were foiled by a quick-thinking detective and strong police work, Deming Police officials said.

DEMING >> A Luna County Florida Mountain volunteer firefighter registered a blood-alcohol content more than two times the legal limit after the county vehicle he was driving was pulled over by a Deming Police officer.

Hanging on to shirt tails from last year's inaugural event, the Deming Pride has organized its first annual Deming Pride: Celebrating Pride and Equality Festival for Friday and Saturday, July 18-19, at Voiers' Park.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson will visit a temporary immigration detention center in southeastern New Mexico on Friday and meet with officials in Texas about the ongoing humanitarian immigrant crisis, the department said Thursday.

A shy Adam Fofana, 13, sends out a message to all of his classmates and the Deming community.

An Agriculture Lease Renewal Workshop is scheduled to help State Land Office lessees fill out renewal applications in Deming on Monday.

Western New Mexico University-Deming Senior Program Advisor Elizabeth Davila presented staff computer technician Michael Temple with a certificate awarding him WNMU-Deming Staff Member of the Month.

A City of Deming employee working for the Deming Police Department was involved in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday morning directly in front of City Hall at 309 S. Gold St. The driver of the white vehicle was pulling out of John Strand Municipal Building when she was struck by another vehicle.

Headlight Photo Richard Holguin shakes hands with Deming Mayor Benny Jasso during the grand opening of his Wheelchair and Walker business at its new location 1204 Columbus Road.

Headlight Photo Jimmy Herrera, a former Deming High graduate and now a deputy fire chief in Las Cruces, presented the Rachel Herrera Female Scholarship to graduate Alexa Chumpitaz during the DHS Scholarship and Awards Night held in May at the Deming Public Schools Auditorium.

DEMING >> A Houston, Texas, man fell to his death Monday at Spring Canyon State Park, 15 miles south of Deming adjacent to Rockhound State Park.

Timothy Baeza, left, a Western New Mexico University-Deming student, explains his poster presentation "Sample Acquisition and Processing for Natural Product Studies in Wasps" at the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation Symposium on Thursday, June 26. Baeza was one of 12 Summer Community College Opportunity for Research Experience students ... (more)

DJ Robert Ramirez donated his "Ground 'n' Pound" Entertainment Service for the Deming Visitor Center Fourth of July celebration Friday at the Luna County Courthouse Park on Friday.