Veguita News

Firefighters worked into the evening Friday to keep flames from spreading in the area between Belen and Veguita in the area of Highways 346 and 304 in Valencia County.

New Mexico has nearly 50 of them; the U.S. has more than 1600.Theya re called intentional communities, planned residences where the people share a common vision and work together as a team.

WORRIES OVER THE H-1-N-1 VIRUS KEPT THEM HOME FOR PART OF THE WEEK. NOW, THE NEW MEXICO ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION MUST DECIDE IF ATHLETIC EVENTS CAN START AGAIN.

La Promesa Elementary School and Carlsbad High School will reopen to students on Wednesday after closing their doors because of possible cases of H1N1 flu, also known as the swine flu.

New Mexico health officials confirmed two more cases of swine flu on Monday, bringing the total to three, as more than a dozen schools in a handful of communities closed this week due to concerns over the illness.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS DEALING WITH TWO NEW CONFIRMED CASES OF SWINE FLU TONIGHT. EARLY THIS EVENING, HEALTH OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED THE C- D-C CONFIRMED THE TWO CASES IN SOCORRO COUNTY ARE INDEED THE SWINE FLU.

A fire on Monday, March 16, leveled a mobile home in Veguita and left the Cervantes family scrambling to pick up the pieces.

A former Belen substitute school bus driver and bus aide have been indicted on child abuse charges for allegedly forgetting about and leaving a 2-year-old girl unattended on a bus for more than an hour last ...

A man accused of firing several gunshots in Valencia County Friday night, is now in jail.

Socorro Electric Cooperative officials are ready to pony up a big reward to catch vandals who rustled the copper grounding strip from power poles in the northern stretches of Socorro County.

I wrote a column for Christmas Eve about the large increase in the number of political appointees under Gov.

Sept. 23

A woman in Bosque reported at 2 p.m. that she learned that money had been withdrawn from her account on three separate occasions. A 21-year-old Albuquerque man was identified as using her account to pay some bills and make purchases. A criminal complaint was filed in Magistrate Court.

Nov. 8

A Lemitar woman reported at 7 p.m. that her vehicle had been keyed while parked at the fairgrounds. A man at the scene stated that a restraining order was in effect involving the victim's daughter and him and that she would have to leave the area. The victim said he had threatened to damage her vehicle and pointed to a scratch on the right side that extended from the rear of the vehicle to the front fender. She said she believed he did it, which he denied, and there were no witnesses anyway.