Hondo News

Relatives of Peggy, Thomas, or Andrew Spence of Alyth, Meigle, Mains of Creuchies, Bamff, Craigisla.

The 2008-09 Lincoln County Fair Queen Haley Montes, of Hondo, earned the right to wear a new crown.

The five top infrastructure projects for Lincoln County include a health care clinic in Capitan and a new district court complex.

Lincoln County experienced its biggest percentage increase in taxable property values in a decade this year.

Most Lincoln County land and home owners saw their property values go up earlier this year.

Lincoln County employees and elected officials received a mileage reimbursement boost from county commissioners for the use of privately-owned vehicles in travel to official activities.

Fearing they might "overreach" in approving an ordinance requiring defensible space around homes, Lincoln County commissioners nixed the concept of a wildland ordinance.

The Santa Fe and Carson National Forests would dramatically reduce the amount of land open to cross-country motorized travel under recently released and highly controversial proposed plans.

The Ruidoso Downs Senior Center will not be closed, Lincoln County commissioners pledged Tuesday.

A joint declaration agreeing that conditions for implementation of the Pecos River Settlement Agreement were met substantially was filed Thurs-day with the Fifth Judicial District Court in Chaves County.

When Phillip Genest woke up, he was in his vehicle on a dirt road with a head injury and didn't remember how he got there or, in fact, where he was exactly.

"If it hadn't been for the firefighters, that county road would not have stopped the fire from heading on west.