Jason Phillips with the Raton Public Works department has shared a set of instructions on how to open the new bear proof dumpsters. Phillips has been getting a lot of calls on how to open the new dumpsters. Public works has over 100 of the new dumpsters spread out in…
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By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Raton High students and former students are providing their muscles to projects at Raton High School this summer as part of a Youth Conservation Corp work program. The YCC program is funded by a grant from the New Mexico Department of Energy and Minerals. The grant…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media – Five years later the scars are still visible north of Raton if you know what to look for, but this weekend five years earlier was a starkly different scene as fire and smoke covered the hillsides and evacuations were called for in north Raton.…
Colfax County results are considered unofficial until canvassed by the Colfax county commission on June 10, 2016. The only contested county race was the county clerk’s race where former county clerk Rayetta LeDoux Trujillo challenged appointed clerk Rebecca Hoy. Hoy had been Freda Baca’s deputy clerk and was appointed clerk…
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Public contact, Information Center: (888) 248-6866Media contact: Matthew Seidel, (505) 222-4728matthew.seidel@state.nm.us FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, JUNE 7, 2016: Sign up for free All-terrain vehicle safety classesin Lincoln National Forest The Department of Game and Fish Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) program is teaming up with the…
PRIMARY ELECTION DAY is Tuesday, June 7, 2016 from 7 am until 7 pm. Shortly after the polls close Tuesday evening, KRTN will broadcast the election results on FM 93.9. Click the link below for list of Candidates & Voting Centers: Primary Election Voting Centers and Candidates
Las Vegas, NM – On May 28, 2016, around 12:30 a.m., New Mexico State Police Patrolman Roslyn Vigil, stationed in Las Vegas, NM, was assisting a stranded motorist on Interstate 25 near milepost 350, north of Las Vegas. Officer Vigil was in the process of jump-starting a red Toyota pickup. Both vehicles were completely…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Anthony Garcia was found guilty by a Colfax County jury on March 10, 2016 and was sentenced in his murder case to 21 years on May 24, 2016. Garcia was found guilty on one count of second degree murder (count 1), three counts of…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media – Raton Fire and Emergency Services were called to an early morning fire Monday, Memorial Day, in the 400 block of Savage. Captain Anthony Burke said the call came in about 2:40 am Monday morning and by the time fire fighters arrived on scene at…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Raton Public Service Board of Directors met Tuesday, May 24th before the regular Raton City Commission meeting and selected Robert G. “Boog” Walton to head RPS as its General Manager. Kathy McQueary, RPS Board President, noted that Walton has strong managerial skills that they were looking for…