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Barbara Allen, by Jo Stafford
Iâd been playing the piano since I was five, and by the time I was 15 I was memorising Rachmaninov concertos. But Barbara Allen, recorded by Jo Stafford, turned me towards the music that was becoming the rebirth of folk music in the US. I knew Staffordâs voice very well â her My Funny Valentine was one of our favourites. She was such a magnificent singer, and her version of Barbara Allen was just stunning. That and The Gypsy Rover were songs that plunged me into a new life. I often say, though, that I was born knowing the lyrics to Danny Boy because my father sang all kinds of things â I would have heard that in the womb.
  The first inductees into the Belmond-Klemme Hall of Fame are two undefeated football teams and three individual state champions.
ââThe 1963 Bronco football team was the first team in school history to go undefeated while the 1964 team followed up with the same record.
ââThe individual inductees are:
ââ⢠Art Hoffman - cross country state champion with a time of 10:13.9 in 1961;
ââ⢠Murray Katter - long jump state champion with a jump of 21â 1.75â in 1972;
ââ⢠Brad Groesbeck - 440 yard state champion with a time of 50.7 seconds in 1975.
ââThe B-K Hall of Fame selection committee was âthrilled with the quality of candidates nominated.â The committee passed a provision that grants automatic induction into the Hall of Fame to any future individual state champions.
COVID-19 by the numbers Over the weekend, health officials reported 2,519 additional COVID-19 cases 1,442 on Saturday and 1,077 on Sunday bringing the statewide total so far to 129,993. Of those, the health department has designated 54,357 as recovered. Bernalillo County led with 727 new cases over the weekend, followed by San Juan County with 335 and Doña Ana County with 206. Santa Fe added 109 new cases: 66 on Saturday, 34 of which came from the Southside 87507 ZIP code, which ranked eighth in the state for most new cases on that day. Santa Fe County had 43 new cases on Sunday. The state also announced 43 more deaths: 27 on Saturday and 16 on Sunday, including the 61st death for Santa Fe County: a man in his 80s who was hospitalized. There have now been 2,171 total deaths statewide. As of yesterday, 820 people were hospitalized with COVID-19.