Registration Deadline is April 12 The summer break from school can be filled with a variety of activities for teenagers. For 30 teenagers it will be an opportunity to learn the science behind ranching at the New Mexico Youth Ranch Management Camp conducted by New Mexico State University’s College of…
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By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media The Raton City Commission heard from its auditing firm that the city has received an unmodified audit report for the FY2018 at its Tuesday, March 26th regular meeting. Alan Bowers of Carr, Riggs and Ingram, LLC. informed commissioners that the FY2018 audit looked very…
By Aaron Sena-Stevens – GrowRaton hosted the Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC), which held the first of a four part workshop series, at the Raton Convention Center On Thursday, March 21st. GrowRaton’s Community Coordinator,Patricia Duran, and the RCAC Facilitators organized the workshop, with sponsorship from International Bank and the Center…
San Isabel Electric is initiating several construction projects scheduled to begin this spring to insure increased power reliability. Targeting before winter 2019 begins, it is being planned that San Isabel Electric members from the New Mexico state line to Walsenburg will experience fewer and shorter power outages. The increased power reliability…
The 2019 Notice of Values will be going out in the mail April 1. It is not a tax bill it is your valuation on your property; Business, Personal Property, and of course Livestock. Look at your value and if you do not agree with it, you have 30 days…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media HB5/SB1 is the Public Education Changes bills that will provide New Mexico teachers with a small pay raise of about $4,000 per year for level one teachers. The bill was approved by the house with a 53-14 vote and a 37-0 vote in the…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Colfax County and municipalities will receive $3,781,000 for capital outlay projects from the 2019 60-day legislative session to fund less than half (18 of the almost 40) of the projects the county and municipalities had requested for funding. This year the legislature funded $933,026,215…
Legislation signed Tuesday, March 12, 2019 contains more than 270,000 acres of new wilderness! ALBUQUERQUE, NM (March 12, 2019) – U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a package of public lands legislation that, in part, establishes thirteen new wilderness areas in New Mexico totaling approximately 272,586 acres. Ten of the…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media A report from Jared Chatterly, Director of the Parks and Recreation Department, lead the business portion of the Raton City Commission meeting Tuesday evening, March 12. In Chatterly’s report he informed the commission that out of a 24-hour day there is about 8 hours…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Tuesday Morning March 12, the three member Colfax County Commission unanimously approved the 2nd Amendment resolution making Colfax County a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary County. Resolution 2019-08 was passed on a 3-0 vote by the Colfax County Commission after hearing discussion from four people in the…