Dora News

The evening sky fills with colors as the sun slips toward the horizon. The world is quiet, and hushed, as dusk develops.

The following will be closed in observance of July 4th holiday. Trash will be picked up as normal on Friday.

Dora junior-to-be Lathan Lieb was a recent invite to the University of New Mexico Elite basketball camp, held earlier this month at the college.

Fred and Molly Anthony of Elida will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 14 at Elida School's cafeteria.

Buddy and Cheryl Hinshaw of Snyder, Texas, and Aquilla and Sheree Fleetwood of Johnson City, Texas, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Courtney LeAnn Fleetwood to Timothy James Cathey, son of Bill and Joeli Cathey of Dora and Patricia Gubbs of Sanderson, Texas.

This weekend promises flying caps, smiling graduates and proud parents as Roosevelt County small schools prepare for graduation.

The Portales Municipal Schools director of special student services plans to retire July 1. At Monday's Board of Education meeting in the district administration building, Superintendent Randy Fowler announced Terry Warnica's retirement.

Freedom New Mexico spoke to some area clergy about their thoughts on this Easter Sunday.

Firefighters have contained a grass fire on private land east of Dora that charred 935 acres and burned a house and a barn.

A grass fire on private land east of Dora has charred an estimated 1,500 acres and burned a house and barn.

Valerie Siau of Portales and Rick Brumfield of Dora were joined in marriage Feb.

The Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office and the New Mexico Sheriff's Association will be awarding three scholarships to area students.

Two people were charged Monday with the unlawful killing of a trophy-class mule deer buck.

Those who knew Kacee Lovato best say she was an inspiration to family and friends, a spirit who could take away another person's pain with just a smile.

Kacee Lovato, 20, a Portales High graduate and aspiring singer, died in an automobile accident early Thursday morning in Roosevelt County.

A 20-year-old Portales woman has died in a one-car crash. She was identified as Kacee Lovato, a Portales High graduate.

Clovis Realtor joins state association executive committee Clovis Realtor Sharon Hicks joins the 2009 executive committee of the Realtors Association of New Mexico, according to an association press release.

There are two contested races for February's Roosevelt County school board elections - both in Elida.

11 /CNW/ -- BlackLight Power Inc. today announced its first commercial license agreement with Estacado Energy Services, Inc.