Earth Month 2025 Features Online Events To Help New Mexicans Connect And Grow As Climate Advocates
Rita O’Connell
By SARA ANN MASON
State Coordinator
Citizens’ Climate Lobby New Mexico
Want to learn how to make climate impacts beyond Earth Day? Citizens’ Climate Lobby New Mexico is excited to offer three virtual events open to people around the state interested in building the political will for a livable world.
These workshops promise to focus on concrete actions that are:
- Effective. We stay focused on national legislative solutions that will reduce America’s carbon emissions from fossil fuels, fast.
- Nonpartisan. We welcome anyone who is serious about solving climate change as a volunteer.
Raw Frozen Cat Food Recalled Over Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus … New Mexico Pet Owners Advised To Check Lot Numbers
COUNTY News:
Savage Pet has issued a voluntary recall of one of its products after it tested positive for the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus.
Pet owners in New Mexico are advised to check lot numbers. Savage Pet products are distributed by its parent company, Predator Pet Inc.
Learn more here.
LWVUS Responds To Anti-Voter Executive Order
LWVUS News:
The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s signed executive order, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” that threatens Americans’ freedom to vote and tramples states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections.
“Let’s keep it real: this order is not about protecting elections; it is about making it harder for voters — particularly women voters — to participate in them,” said Celina Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of the League of Women Voters Read More
New Mexico Unemployment Rate: 4.4% In February 2025
NMDWS News:
New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.4 percent in February, unchanged from 4.4 percent in January and up from 3.8 percent in the previous year.
The national unemployment rate in February was 4.1 percent, up from 4.0 percent in January and up from 3.9 percent in February 2024.
Total nonagricultural payroll employment grew by 13,800 jobs, or 1.6 percent, between February 2024 and February 2025. The majority of gains came from the private sector. The private sector was up 11,800 jobs, or 1.7 percent, while the public sector was up 2,000 jobs, or 1.0 percent. Within Read More
FBI: Newcomb Man Sentenced For Role In Fatal Altercation
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE — A Newcomb man was sentenced to three years of probation for his role in the death of an individual who died from a fatal stab wound during a drunken altercation. There is no parole in the federal system.
According to court documents, June 2, 2021, Leighton Spencer, 32, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, and two other individuals were at Spencer’s home, consuming a mixture of Gatorade and hand sanitizer, followed by beers, when an altercation between the two other individuals occurred. After one person left to cool down and returned, they discovered the third Read More
Part Of Abiquiu Lake Recreation Area To Close For Season
USACE News:
ABIQUIU — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Albuquerque District has announced that beginning April 1, 2025, the Swim Beach Section of the Cerrito Recreation Area at Abiquiu Lake will be closed for the season.
This closure will remain in effect until the recreation season ends on Oct.15, 2025.
The closure includes the Swim Beach, Paddle Craft Launch Area and Group Shelters 4 and 5.
Visitors will be permitted to park at the top of the hill in the Corral to the right before the gate and walk down into the Recreation Area.
Day use fees of $5 per vehicle will still apply, and passes are Read More
LAPS Sends 21 Students To 2025 Regional Science Fair
Students representing Los Alamos Public Schools participated in the 2025 Regional Science Fair last weekend at New Mexico Highlands University. Photo by Pamela Miller
Los Alamos High School sophomore Tate Plohr garnered 1st place in Senior Physics & Astronomy and was named a Senior Best in Show runner-up and received an Oppenheimer Memorial Fund award. Photo by Pamela Miller
LAPS News:
Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) sent 21 students to compete last weekend at the 2025 Regional Science Fair at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, N.M.
All students placed in their divisions, Read More
All Santa Fe National Forest Offices To Close For Training
SFNF News:
SANTA FE — All Santa Fe National Forest offices, including the Supervisor’s Office in Santa Fe will be closed Wednesday, April 2 for employee training.
Regular business hours will resume Thursday, April 3.
Find a list of Santa Fe National Forest offices and hours of operation on the Santa Fe National Forest website here.
About the Forest Service:
The USDA Forest Service has for more than 100 years brought people and communities together to answer the call of conservation. Grounded in world-class science and technology– and rooted in communities–the Forest Service connects people Read More
Luján, Colleagues Press USDA To Not Take Food Away
U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, joined U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and 24 of their colleagues in pressing the U.S. Department of Agriculture for more information about the cancellation of previously-approved funding through The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) for food banks and other emergency food providers.
This would take food away from hungry Americans Read More
State Police Arrest Ruidoso Teacher On 40 Counts Of Abuse
NMSP News:
Lincoln County — New Mexico State Police (NMSP) Investigations Bureau arrested a man Thursday on multiple charges of child sexual abuse after an investigation that began in 2024.
Dec. 11, 2024, NMSP agents were contacted about multiple alleged incidents of criminal sexual contact at the Mountain View Christian Academy in Ruidoso. The suspect was identified as Devin Henderson, 23, of Ruidoso.
Agents learned that eight children, ages 10 and under, reported that Henderson inappropriately touched them on more than one occasion while attending his computer class. Investigation Read More
