Adults of all experience levels are invited to participate in a two-day workshop with Santa Fe-based artist Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi-Choctaw) exploring individual responses to current and personal life events through painting and collage. The event will take place at the Roswell Museum and Art Center on Saturday, Nov. 6, and Sunday, Nov. 7, from 10 … Read more
The Roswell Police Department will be part of this year’s second National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, an initiative of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) offering citizens an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs. The public can bring unwanted and … Read more
City and state officials, joined by representatives of the Autism Society organization and Kiwanis Club, held a “Site Celebration” Friday afternoon (Oct. 15) at the planned all-inclusive park in Roswell. The park, with its specially designed playground, will be located adjacent to the Roswell Recreation and Aquatic Center at the east end of the Cielo … Read more
The City of Roswell’s 2021 virtual public forum series will wrap up this month by focusing on Wards 1 and 2, although citizens from throughout the city are encouraged to watch and participate. (A ward map can be found at roswell- nm.gov/544/City-Council.) The forum will be posted on the city’s Facebook page Thursday, Oct. 21, … Read more
Families are invited to attend Roswell Family After Hours, a free evening of hands-on visual and performing arts activities presented by Roswell Independent School District’s Arts Connect staff at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. The event will take place Thursday, Oct. 28, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Programming will be centered on whimsical displays … Read more
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has announced a new member of her cabinet./ Barbara Vigil will take over for Brian Blalock as the secretary for CHidlren, Youth and Families. Blalock is stepping down because his wife has taken a job in California. Vigil is 62 years old and has worked as a judge and lawyer in … Read more
A celebration of Roswell’s all-inclusive playground will take place on Friday at 2:00 p.m. The event will happen at the southeast corner of the Roswell Recreation and Aquatic Center property. If you go, you’re asked to park in the overflow lot of the recreation and aquatic center off of Montana and 13th Street.
We begin with a traffic alert for you today. Pavement-maintenance projects will take place Oct. 11 through Oct. 16 on two of Roswell’s main thoroughfares. The work will require some traffic diversions, but will not result in any full road closures. Work on East College Boulevard between Main Street and North Atkinson Avenue is scheduled … Read more
The city of Carlsbad is pondering the idea of switching to a radio signal to read water meters. The city is applying for a grant to the tune of a half million dollars that would pay for overhauling the current system that required a human to personally visit every meter and read it. The Carlsbad … Read more
— The art design of the City of Roswell’s new water tanks at the Roswell Air Center area is competing with other water-tank designs from across the United States and Canada for the title of Tank of the Year. Residents of Roswell and the surrounding area can cast their votes for the local water-tank design … Read more