Tularosa News

Ruidoso Downs police officer April Dominguez and Ruidoso police officer Matt Christian responded to the Days Inn on Highway 70, June 26, in response to a call that someone was breaking into a vehicle in the parking lot.

Editor's note: Police logs are provided to the Daily News by the Alamogordo Department of Public Safety.

The Tularosa Public Library conducted its first Star Party Friday night at the Tularosa Community Center Ball Field and it was deemed a success.

I am a lifelong resident of Tularosa and feel I must inform its citizens that they could be in danger and not even know it.

Some artists work in pencil and oils, some in wood, clay and other more familiar media.

There may not be a museum moving into the old Plaza Pub building on the corner of 10th Street and White Sands Boulevard after all.

On May 25, American Legion Post 108 in Tularosa was struck by a microburst that peeled the metal roof off the post building.

Artifacts have been found near White Sands Missile Range of the Jornada Mogollon, who lived mostly in the Tularosa Basin more than 650 years ago.

Notices of intent to draw billions of gallons of water from previously unregulated deep wells in the Tularosa and Salt Basins of the counties of Otero and Lincoln to possibly be sold outside of the United States were filed with the New Mexico office of the State Engineer.

Editor's note: Police logs are provided to the Daily News by the Alamogordo Department of Public Safety.

Alfred Waldo, 51, of Albuquerque, was sentenced to seven days in jail, given 357 days probation and assessed $375 in fines and court costs for driving on a revoked license .

Ryan Francis, of the North Carolina Tarheels, pitched a complete game against the Boston Red Sox of Tularosa Saturday and gained his fourth victory with a 14-4 victory.

Dave Simons awoke aboard Man High II and radioed "he was completely disoriented," a 1958 article "Wonders of the Universe" reported.

Macario Lueras, 51, of 9 White Sands, La Luz, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for first offense DWI and seven days in jail for driving on a revoked license.

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

Rates are going up for many PNM customers this summer. The state Public Regulation Commission on Thursday approved a 9.7 percent increase for residential customers of the state's largest electric utility.

A larceny was reported by a resident In the 1700 block of East First Street. The person said that sometime between May 19 and May 27, someone removed a large amount of jewelry from her apartment.

He's been all over the world - Okinawa, Main-land Japan, Australia, El Salvador and the Philippines - those kinds of places that being a U.S. Marine would afford a soldier in an overseas tour.

Friday's rain helped quench the dry weather in the Tularosa Basin, but it's still a far cry from wiping out drought-like conditions.

B.J. Lawrence, a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, plays "Taps" on a bugle during a Memorial Day observance Monday morning at the Catholic cemetery.