LAS CRUCES - The capital outlay bill signed last week by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham includes more than $28 million in funding for projects in Dona Ana County, as well as millions for other projects in southern New Mexico.
The bill funds more than $511 million in projects throughout the state, including roughly $64 million for water and wastewater improvements, $53 million for roads, $49 million for higher education, $48 million for public safety and $8 million for acequias, dams and ditches. There is also $12.5 million to support Local Economic Development Act (LEDA) projects and $10 million for health facilities and prisons.
Lujan Grisham used her line-item veto authority to strike less than two percent of the projects included in the bill, explaining in a news release that that the projects she vetoed lacked proper planning, had unused funds from previous years or were not large enough to qualify for capital appropriation.
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Zeke Delgado points to the window on which he trained a garden hose early Friday morning, in an effort to stop a house fire next door from spreading to his mother’s house. The Delgado house was spared, but the blaze consumed the home next door. A volunteer firefighter broke his leg during the four hours that crews spent battling the blaze, which also claimed the lives of two dogs.
A Bayard family lost their home on South Canyon Road to a fire early Friday morning, despite the efforts of a dozen firefighters and several trucks from three volunteer fire departments that spent four hours trying to extinguish the blaze.
March 8, 2021
March 8, 2021
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Kira Sherwood plays on the swings with two of her kids, Liam, 3, and Joy, 5, as their little brother, Jack, and Dannika Maldonado give Joy a little extra push.
With a high about 10 degrees warmer than the average for this time of year and a welcome break from the usual heavy spring winds, people all over Grant County were outdoors to take advantage of the unseasonable weather.
The warm spell came after a cold season that may have seemed longer than usual with various closures, and amid a year of social distancing in response to concerns about public health, many were certainly happy to be able to stretch their legs and enjoy some sunshine.
March 8, 2021
March 8, 2021
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The back door of the Fort Bayard Museum, showing damage from vandalism that apparently took place sometime Friday night. Luckily, damage seems to have been limited to the door, and there was no other apparent damage, or items missing from the museum’s interior.
Sometime Friday night, the window was smashed in the back door to the museum at Fort Bayard located inside one of the Victorian-style homes that were built to house the officers of the fort. While the door was heavily damaged, that may have been the extent of the property loss, according to officials.