As 2024 is in sight, the Deming Headlight decided to take a look back at Deming’s most impactful stories of the past year. Come with us to take a trip through 2023: January Montes, who introduced middle schoolers to welding, retires Jerry Montes retired as a shop teacher after 27 years from Deming Public Schools. Montez worked on many industrial art pieces alongside his students from Red Mountain Middle School. …
On June 19, the Deming Animal Shelter re-opened its doors after a three-week closure due to a distemper epidemic. The shelter had to put down over 100 dogs after their last outbreak, which led to the closure. Two weeks since the shelter reopened, they’ve received 60 dogs and 37 cats. Each animal had to be tested for the paramyxovirus, which causes distemper, before they were admitted. According to Sandra Foster, …
During its recent closure, the Deming Animal Shelter put down over 100 dogs who contracted distemper and parvovirus. The shelter closed its doors last month due to an overflow of rescued and abandoned animals, which ended in a massive infection of the viruses, according to Crystal Mergenthaler, the shelter’s manager. While the contagion is the biggest issue the shelter is facing, it’s the way animals are being dropped at the …