Comments welcome on Checkerspot Butterfly listing

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reopen the public comment period and host a public hearing for the proposal to designate approximately 1,636.9 acres of critical habitat in Otero County, New …

UPDATE: Parade Saved - Alamogordo Christmas Parade Canceled Due to Insurance and Litigation Costs

The Alamogordo Center of Commerce Board of Directors met in special emergency session on Wednesday at 8 am to discuss reviving the Alamogordo Christmas Parade, after the fallout and public outcry from the controversial decision announced on Monday that they were canceling the traditional Alamogordo Christmas Parade for 2023.

Chamber orchestra joins in ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet

Borderlands Ballet Company (BBC) presents its 2023 performance of “The Nutcracker” in December, including the Paso del Norte Chamber Orchestra (PDNCO), housed under the umbrella of …

December is full of Luminarias

Luminarias (small bonfires) were first recorded in the 16th century, when Spanish people lit bonfires along the roads to guide people to Midnight Mass on the final night of Las Posadas. This was …

NM Supreme Court upholds District 2 map

Tuesday, Nov. 27, a day after the New Mexico Supreme Court upheld an Oct. 6 ruling on the Congressional District 2 map, officials at the Republican Party of New Mexico “are contemplating our …

Vasquez works on bipartisan bill to help ranchers

Earlier this month, U.S. Rep.Gabe Vasquez (D-NM-02) announced the introduction of the bipartisan and bicameral Ranching Without Red Tape Act alongside Rep.John Curtis (R-UT), Rep. John Duarte (R-CA) …

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Opportunities to give back

Every year, the Las Cruces Bulletin publishes a series of stories on ways to help those in need in Las Cruces and Doña Ana County. The series will include many nonprofits that would welcome …

Silver City Lighted Parade Saturday

The Silver City MainStreet Project presents the 33rd Annual Lighted Christmas Parade on 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 25.

Pistachios Join NMSU product list

New Mexico State University’s line of licensed products is welcoming its newest addition, a bundle of fresh gourmet products featuring locally grown pistachios. Heart of the Desert Pistachios …

Understanding and preventing diabetes

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. Diabetes is a chronic, long-lasting, health condition that causes blood sugar levels to rise far above what’s healthy. This disease affects …

Virtual Gallery

Agave Artists Gallery

Agave Artists Gallery in Mesilla is a cooperative gallery featuring contemporary art in multiple media: oil, acrylic, water media, fabric, paper, assemblage art, photography, mixed media, pastel, …

Arts Scene/Gallery Guide

Please join us in visiting southern New Mexico artists in their web-based galleries. While we can’t yet go to these galleries and studios and spend our time perusing the amazing work of …

Lisa Alden

Lisa Alden has always loved art and has been creating since childhood. Before formal training in art she worked in hospitality and medical career fields and in 2000 earned a B.S. in chemistry from …

Maria Aragon

Maria Aragon is a self-taught artist working mainly in oil paint on either canvas, artist's board or paper. She is a symbolist who combines figures from the West, including the Americas, with symbols …

Jean-Robert P. Béffort

Jean-Robert P. Béffort is a mixed-media assemblage sculpture and collage artist who lives in Silver City and operates a 4,000 square-foot contemporary studio and art gallery called …

Mary Beagle

Mary Beagle has primarily worked with oil on canvas; her paintings reflect her love of native and Latino cultures and celebrations. She incorporates geometric or native designs into her compositions …

Margaret Bernstein

Margaret Bernstein was meandering through a profession of words, interviews and teenagers when, on a whim, she fell suddenly into experimenting with paints and brushes in Las …

Victoria Chick

Victoria Chick established her painting studio near Silver City after a 40-year art career as studio artist, registered art therapist and a combined 15 years as adjunct instructor at the University …

Ruth Drayer

Ruth Drayer's work is non-objective; she is painting color and color relationships and has developed her own technique. Rather than beginning with an idea, Drayer textures her blank canvas with a …

Lois Duffy

Lois Duffy has had a studio and gallery in Silver City’s downtown historic Yankie/Texas Art District for 23 years. She paints large acrylic paintings of surreal and realistic subject matter. …

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