Estancia News

Small, neatly folded, colorful sweaters sit on a small table beside Nancy Wilson's bed.

The Kings and the Anayas met up at El Comedor last Friday morning for coffee. However, that morning, conversation wasn't about politics, farming or the weather.

New Mexico Class 2A Quarterfinals Estancia at Texico, 6 p.m. Class 1A Semifinals Fort Sumner at Hagerman, 7 p.m. 8-man semifinals Melrose at Mountainair, 7 p.m. Texas Class 2A Division I Bi-district Muleshoe vs.

Former Gov. Bruce King died overnight. He was 85. King, who served three non-consecutive terms from 1971 to 1974, from 1979 to 1982 and from 1991 to 1994, had been sick and died at his ranch near Stanley.

Former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King was a back-slapping, hand-pumping, old-fashioned politician, equally at home on the ranch or in the Roundhouse.

The Torrance County Detention Center in Estancia has a new officer-- and he is covered in black hair and loves to fetch a camouflage chew toy.

One day last week we got the urge to see what I call the "backside of the Manzanos." We headed south from Tijeras and wandered all the way down to Mountainair .

Two young adults and a teen boy have been charged with the burglary that did so much damage to the only store in Tajique it nearly put the place out of business.

With anticipation for the holiday season now increasing, so is the need for food in the East Mountains and Estancia Valley.

Some capital outlay projects in the East Mountains and Estancia Valley are now in limbo.

Whether dressed as ghosts, goblins, ghouls or Chuck Norris, kids have plenty to do this Halloween weekend.

Parts of Torrance County may be eligible to participate in a federal program that would send government contracts to local businesses.

It's doesn't seem like October without pumpkins, especially in the East Mountains and Estancia Valley.

Here are the official results for the 14th annual Estancia Punkin Chunkin' distance competition.

They have some intrinsic value, but you can't buy or sell them. Unless, of course, you've gained some amount of fame, then your memoirs have some value to the public.

The 40th day of school came and went, and enrollment at the Moriarty-Edgewood School District is still up from projections.

The three R's are drilled into children's heads from day one at school. With growing populations meaning more trash at neighborhood landfills, local governments and solid waste authorities are working toward reducing the never-ending stream of waste.

Torrance County is in the planning stages of getting a new building to house administrative offices.

Paul Sanchez, 31, the man charged in the April 8 deaths of Flora and Chris Chavez of Mountainair, pleaded guilty last Thursday to two counts of vehicular homicide.

It seems appropriate that the state where Billy the Kid and his ragtag bunch of outlaws scoffed the law would hold a match to settle who is best with a shooting iron: cops or cowboys.