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The Great New Mexico Chile Taste-Off will be conducted this Saturday, September 21, at the Socorro Sports and Rodeo Complex.
News
Socorro Sedillo Park this Saturday, Sept. 21, will be the scene of a traditional Navajo pow wow. Jason Frame from the Socorro County Alternatives Program said one of the purposes of the pow wow was to raise awareness of substance abuse, “but mainly bring families and people together.”
For the third consecutive year, the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church in Datil will host its annual Fiesta. The fiesta takes place at the church Sunday, Sept. 22, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The church is located at 53 Old State Highway 60 in Datil.
The Socorro County Board of Commissioners last week heard from a dozen residents of the county who are fighting to stop a high voltage transmission line from running through properties in southern Valencia County and northern Socorro County.
Sports
Light rain Sunday morning would not hold back the Lady Warriors basketball team during its annual Golf Ball Drop fundraiser at the Rodeo and Sports Complex. The local fire department once again brought out their truck and dropped a large bag of golf balls with names of members around the com…
The New Mexico Tech Miners are currently rocking a 21 man rotating roster composed of 15 current students, former graduates and local lovers of the game during its 2019-2020 Soccer season. Head Coach Billy Oxford has returned, doing double duty this year having taken over as the SHS Warriors…
The New Mexico Tech Golf Course hosted the 25th anniversary of its annual president’s golf tournament.
A twelve team bracket hit the court during the 2019 Magdalena volleyball invite. Seeded based on previous season performance, the Tularosa Wildcats took home the gold trophy as the number one seed. Socorro was given the silver group trophy with the Lady Steers finishing fourth overall.
Opinion
The question came up the other day from an El Defensor Chieftain reader asking how the newspaper finds all the things we place in our community calendar.
The great Boreal Forest is a broad, emerald ring encircling the globe — a crown of fir, larch, pine and spruce, with alder, aspen and birch scattered through it — extending south from the Arctic tundra. This dense, vast, virgin forest encompasses most of Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, Russia a…
Today marks the 110th anniversary of the invention of rubber, synthetic rubber that is, giving the erstwhile rubber tree a much-deserved hiatus. Since then just about anything and everything has been synthesized into synthetics by the syntheticians, from synthetic oil to synthetic vegetables…
Obituaries
She is preceded in death by her parents Candelario Jr. and Theresita P. Chavez, significant other Michael Chavez , brothers Eristeo (Ed), Edward, and Lorenzo Chavez, nephew Keith Ray Calpito and brother in law Gary Calpito.
Betty Jane Norris Perry, a long-time resident of Socorro and Catron Counties, died Sunday, September 1, 2019, at Presbyterian Anna Kaseman Hospice Center in Albuquerque, N.M.
Manuel R. Marquez "Manny" of Socorro, New Mexico, entered eternal rest on August 19, 2019 at the age of 83.
Patricia Savedra entered into eternal peace on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at her home in Polvadera, NM.
