Fairacres News

The Las Cruces school district has promoted assistant principals Kathy Norris and Julieta Marta to principal posts.

Ours is a large family with limited and ever-diminishing financial resources. Every now and then I hitch up the red, American-made buckboard and head into town down far west Picacho to visit selected vendors for supplies.

A measure to allow beer and wine to be served in restaurants in the county appears to have passed by a landslide margin Tuesday, though turnout in the election was light.

A number of Las Cruces school district administrators are being shuffled this year, as part of the ongoing staff downsizing, now in its second year.

Hungry? Check out Grub Hub. At the re-opening of Guacamole's Bar and Grill recently, my friend and I really enjoyed our food, the atmosphere and especially the history of Guacamole's. The restaurant draws a wide variety of customers, from college students to adults.

Deliveries from a year-round farm in Albuquerque are answering the demand for organic, local produce.

Someday, a drive south past all those South Valley dairies won't require you to roll up the windows and leap for the "recirculated air" button on your dashboard.

With all the drive-by shootings, we need accountability for the failure to arrest the perpetrators.

A Las Cruces teenager was killed and two teens hospitalized in El Paso following a single-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon in Fairacres, Dona Ana County sheriff officials said Monday.

Dona Ana County sheriff's deputies have identified the victim of a crash in Fairacres near Las Cruces.

A fatal crash Sunday in Fairacres claimed the life of a 19-year-old Las Cruces man and left two other teens hospitalized, according to Dona Ana County Sheriff's investigators.

Third-generation pecan grower Gary Arnold is downright stingy about water - efficiently and effectively irrigating his 327 acres of pecan trees in New Mexico's Mesilla Valley.

Michael Stone, 47, of Fairacres, was arrested following a traffic stop on Magistrate Court warrants from Dona Ana County, Eddy County, Otero County and a Municipal Court warrant for alleged failure to appear.

With the largest full moon of the year fading into a clear, early morning sky, a large crowd gathered Saturday to dedicate New Mexico's newest state park.