Farmington News

San Juan County Commissioners said on Thursday that a city of Bloomfield annexation proposal will hurt the county's tax rolls, but there is nothing the county's elected officials can do to stop it from happening.

"It feels good," said Jim, an animal control officer and park ranger with the city of Farmington.

The gym just received a 600 thousand dollar grant to help students start their own business in the fitness industry.

LAS CRUCES >> Just four years ago, Las Cruces was a Top 10 small city on Milken Institute's Best Performing Cities list.

New Mexico's civilian labor force - those people working or looking for jobs - shrank by 18,594 during the past 12 months, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday.

Although Trudy Farrell has been friends with Ken and Mary MacAdams since she moved to Farmington in 1989, until now, the three friends have never shown their art together at a single exhibit.

Aztec's latest small business opened its doors Monday, but you'd scarcely notice unless you were window shopping along Aztec's historic downtown corridor.

In Farmington, luminarias -- small paper lanterns that hold candles -- will illuminate Friday's Riverglo, and another luminaria display will be at San Juan College on Saturday.

When Jack Yerby taught at Clovis Junior High School in New Mexico, he discovered that the boys in his classes often stopped reading in middle school.

The school is fundraising to purchase supplies for safety kits, which can be used if the school is placed in lockdown for safety reasons.

The state Supreme Court has upheld the resentencing to life imprisonment of a Farmington man who as a teenager killed an elderly San Juan County resident.

November is Native American Heritage month and the Native American Center at San Juan College will be celebrating with activities for the entire community on the Farmington campus.

Farmington's two deputy police chiefs were among the more than 50 people who applied to be Farmington's next chief of police.

The western edge of Farmington where the city is considering annexing about 56 acres as seen on Monday from the 5400 block of U.S. 64. The work session will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Executive Conference Room at City Hall, 800 Municipal Drive.

New Mexico State University's Agricultural Science Center at Farmington is taking its research into the real world of soil contamination to see if poplar trees can help stop the migration of an underground plume of petroleum contaminants.

Leona Ayres, the office manager of the San Juan Chapter of the American Red Cross, accepts four checks from Rhodora Alonzo, the principal in-training at Tse Bit'a'i Middle School, on Wednesday.

After 42 years in the propane business, Jake Cluff has learned one important lesson that structures how he and his business partner, Kent Misemer, run Arrowhead Propane.

For the seventh annual year, Best Brass of Christmas, an 11-member brass ensemble, will play at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Farmington.

Vicki Metheny, food programs director at ECHO Food Bank, and Catherine Knowlton, agency program coordinator at ECHO, go over items that are in short supply for the emergency food program on July 25 at ECHO Food Bank in Farmington.

More info: The Compassionate Friends group meets the second Monday of each month from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at 608 Reilly Ave. in Farmington.