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Gabe Vasquez won t seek second city council term
LAS CRUCES – Gabe Vasquez won’t be running for a second term on the Las Cruces City Council.
Elections for city council districts 3, 5 and 6 will take place this November.
In a statement issued to local media Friday morning, Vasquez said he s been proud of his work on the council the past three years, listing some of his achievements as advocating for new and refurbished city skateparks, shaping the redevelopment of the El Paseo-Solano corridor as chair of the committee overseeing it and advocating for the development of the Villa Mora Dam area.
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar introduced legislation Thursday to make Castner Range a national monument.
The El Paso Democrat said the Castner Range National Monument Act would make the 7,081-acre area in Northeast El Paso, which formerly was used by Fort Bliss, a national monument “to conserve and protect the ecological cultural, historical, natural integrity of the land.”
“Castner Range is the crown jewel of West Texas and a source of great pride for El Pasoans,” Escobar said in a news release. “As our nation takes unprecedented action to conserve public lands and water and address climate change, I am proud to re-introduce the Castner Range National Monument Act and very grateful for the grassroots community leadership that has been working tirelessly on this issue.”