Luna News

Area residents will be able to watch, help launch and retrieve a dozen hot air balloons when the three-day San Juan River Balloon Rally kicks off Friday.

Three new fires were reported Friday: the Joshua, Johnson and Wilson fires in the Quemado and Reserve Ranger Districts.

Teofila Lopez, 96, a lifelong resident of Puerto De Luna, N.M., died Monday, March 30, 2009 at her home. She was born Aug.

A week before Christmas, I am beginning to wonder if there is such thing as too much organization. Maybe I'm finally looking around and seeing what matters.

If I am more relaxed than I should be, is that a good sign? Last week my computer had its own agenda. I am always sorry when I can't prepare a column.

This week I've come to the conclusion that I can't and don't need to do it all. I realized I needed to make my list and some things just are not going to get done, for sanity's sake. What a wonderful holiday I have begun to anticipate.

New Mexico Lt. Gov. Diane Denish has put her faith in New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. Lpez.

The U.S. Forest Service and several off-road vehicle clubs are building a new extreme rock crawling course in Left Hand Canyon, and it should be scratched out and ready for off-road enthusiasts by spring.

Sometimes when you're feeling lowest, the real you is being summoned. Hopefully you can understand, maybe for the first time, how grand you are. You will discover that vulnerable does not mean powerless; to be scared does not mean you are lacking and uncertainty does not mean you are lost.

Those realizations alone will set you on a journey that will take you far beyond what you used to think of as the extraordinary. There is always a bright side.

Love and prayers

Pam Thompson's second surgery has seemed to have gone well. Although there are more hurdles to overcome and there will be more healing time needed, there is hope that this can take place at home in Luna.