By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media The Raton City Commission met on Tuesday evening April 22, 2025, for their regular meeting and tackled a very long agenda where they covered the audit, housing issues including dangerous buildings and vacant buildings. At the beginning of the meeting several proclamations were presented before…
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[Raton, NM, April 21, 2025] El Raton Media Works is thrilled to announce that two youth films from Raton, “Time Kids” and “Demons and Angels,” have achieved significant success at the prestigious 2025 Film Prize Junior Film Festival, culminating in both films winning the coveted Audience Choice Awards. The 2025…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media The Raton School Board of Education met April 21, 2025, for their regular meeting of the month starting with a budget hearing and then moving on to the regular portion of the meeting with the installation of new Student Senate members being sworn in. Teacher…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Raton MainStreet Executive Director Brenda Ferri is beaming ear to ear and the excitement and enthusiasm she has is infectious after Raton Mainstreet was awarded, “the prestigious Great American Main Street Award which recognizes communities for their excellence in comprehensive preservation-based commercial district revitalization.” Ferri…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Raton city commission met Tuesday evening April 8, 2025, for the first regular meeting of the month with a short agenda that began with three proclamations before handling the business part of the meeting. Tim Gianulis, a retired art teacher from Denver is opening a…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Raton City Commissioners met Tuesday evening March 25, 2025, to a packed house as residents were in attendance to hear the discussion on the reproductive clinic that Governor Lujan Grisham pushed through the legislature in a last-minute addition to capital outlay projects as part of…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media There was a new State Champion crowned in Class A-2A as Questa just nosed out last year’s champion Mawell Bears earning the win by less than a point according to the judges. The top four teams were all from Northern New Mexico in the 17…
ATTENTION SPRINGER ELECTRIC COOP MEMBERS IN RATON, FOLSOM AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS: Springer Electric Coop will be running new transmission and distribution lines into the new Raton substation and will need to take an outage. This work is scheduled for Monday, March 24 from approximately 9 am to 3 pm.…
ATTENTION RATON PUBLIC SERVICE CUSTOMERS Springer Electric Coop has requested a 2-hour power outage for the Raton Public Service customers on Monday March 24, 2025, from 9:00am to 11:00am. This system-wide outage is for the new Springer Electric substation on Gardner Road that ties to the Raton transmission line. The…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media The Raton Public Schools Board of Education began the budget process at their regular meeting Monday March 17, 2025, followed by reports and the business section of the meeting. Myra Baird noted that the school funding for students hasn’t changed for this year. One important…