Mescalero News

Photo: Mescalero Apaches eight decades after Antonio Cordero wrote about them. Note: On the ground are several Apache canteens, woven baskets covered with pitch to hold water.

The good things are rolling in one after another for Chon Miranda, and it is taking a detailed calendar to keep up with him.

You won't have to fight for your right to party creatively over the Fourth of July weekend.

The exercise at Mescalero Schools Tuesday, was a practice for law enforcement officers to go against their previous training and experience.

A Mescalero Apache medicine woman is upset over the closure of the Walmart Supercenter fabrics department and says she is not the only one.

Four Mescalero Apache maidens will celebrate their coming of age ceremony over the July 4th holiday weekend, one of the tribe's major events of the year and a chance for the public to glimpse a moment of important tribal tradition.

Matthew Loveland, 32, of the 200 block of Delaware, was arrested on a Municipal Court warrant for alleged failure to appear.

Ruidoso Police Officer Art Nelson reported responding to a call about a small child playing in a parking lot in the 100 block of Pinecrest, June 14.

The Hershey's Track and Field Program was created more than 30 years ago to provide competition and promote physical fitness for children 9 to 14 years of age.

Harlynn Marian Geronimo, daughter of Mario and Kate Hernandez of Mescal-ero, and Cody Martinez, Sr.

Victoria Jane Rivera and Raymond Junior Martinez, both of Mescalero, announce their upcoming wedding.

In a culture that teaches not to revisit suffering, a proposal to memorialize routes that Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians marched as they were forced from their homelands has stirred up painful memories.

Kevin Smith, 41, of 310 N. White Sands Blvd., was issued a citation for alleged trespassing.

US v. Dolan, No. 08-2104, 5/27/09 - Restitution order entered more than 90 days after sentencing, which ordered defendant to pay $250/month against total restitution of over $100,000, affirmed.

David Sanchez, 23, of 920 Hawaii Ave., was sentenced to seven days in jail for battery on a household member and seven days in jail for interference with communications.

Sonia Martinez, 31, of 4 Crestwood, was arrested on a Municipal Court warrant for alleged failure to appear.

The New Mexico Department of Transportation, with the assistance of local volunteers from the Mescalero Apache Tribe will paint two pedestrian overpass bridges Friday on U.S. Highway 70 in Mescalero.

At 11:31 a.m., Alamogordo Department of Public Safety units responded to J&J Mini Mart at 781 U.S. Highway 70 to a report of an attempted robbery.

A resident in the 2300 block of Camino Del Ray reported that sometime between May 4 and May 9, someone painted a swastika on a sidewalk in front of the location.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation will not pursue charges against a 23-year-old Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation man after he allegedly shot and killed two men on the reservation April 15, an FBI spokesperson said.