Community and Color Soar at Edgewood’s Annual Kite Festival
EDGEWOOD – After a breathless start on Saturday, the Wildlife West Nature Park’s annual Kite Festival took flight on Sunday as the New Mexico winds...
24th Annual Kite Festival at Wildlife West Nature Park
EDGEWOOD, N.M. — The skies over the high desert will fill with color this weekend as the 24th Annual Kite Festival returns to Wildlife West...
Moriarty MX Prepares for new Season
MORIARTY — Sprawling across the high-desert landscape of the Estancia Valley, New Mexico’s largest motocross compound is more than just a collection of dirt tracks—it...
Cars N Coffee Host First Event of 2026
CEDAR CREST, N.M. — In the East Mountains, where neighbors are often separated by acres of pinon and juniper rather than thin apartment walls, catching...
Stewart Signs with Minnesota North College Following Breakout Senior Season
MORIARTY — Moriarty High School senior Laura Stewart solidified her athletic future Wednesday, signing a National Letter of Intent to play basketball for Minnesota North...
Local Forest Service Employee Turns Childhood Project into Debut Novel, Spur Award Finalist
SANDIA PARK, N.M. — For 29-year-old Canyon Young, a career with the U.S. Forest Service perfectly suits a man named after the rugged outdoors. But...
High Desert Resilience: How Summit Leon is Redefining Farming in the East Mountains
TIJERAS — On a 16-acre acre plot of soft dirt, high-desert grass and brush, Kerri Barber is building something more than a ranch. She is...
The Architect of Bravado: Michael Wood and the Evolution of East Mountain Recording Arts
BY RUSSELL HUFFMAN At East Mountain High School, the air is rarely still. It is filled with the low thrum of bass, the sharp crack...
An Oasis in the East Mountains: The Heart and Heritage of Lantern Ridge Farm Market
Nestled along the scenic NM-14 in Sandia Park, where the air is a little crisper and the pace a little slower, sits a burgeoning community...
A New Breed of Wi-Fi: Pablo the Data Dog
By RUSSELL HUFFMAN Did you know you can get a Wi-Fi signal from a Great Dane, but you can’t cruise the Internet with it? Oh,...
Fast, Furry, and Free: Flyball Takes Flight in Edgewood
By RUSSELL HUFFMAN On any given Sunday morning in Edgewood, the air at Venus Park in Edgewood is filled with the rhythmic thud-thud-thud of paws...
The Last Drop: The Twilight of Frontier Justice in the Estancia Valley
The history of the American West is often imagined as a sudden, sharp snap—a violent era brought to an abrupt halt by the arrival of...
The Pack Leader: Carmen Dorsey-Spitz and a New Ceiling for New Mexico Running
Carmen Dorsey-Spitz spent her freshman year just trying to keep up. She wasn’t qualifying for state meets, let alone national finals. She was a face...
The Moriarty Shortcut: How a Cross-Country Footrace Helped Bring Route 66 to the East Mountains
TIJERAS, N.M. — While the 1928 “Bunion Derby” was a cross-country spectacle, it was the steep, rugged slopes of the East Mountains that fundamentally altered...
The Great New Mexico Shortcut: A Tale of Spite, Snow, and the Mother Road’s 100th Birthday
If US Route 66 is turning 100 years old, how did the highway end up running through Moriarty, Edgewood and the East Mountains area in...
Where Twigs Become Tools: The ‘Soulful’ Science of Learning Beyond Four Walls
By RUSSELL HUFFMAN TIJERAS, N.M. — In the modern world, the average American child spends between four and seven minutes a day in unstructured outdoor...
Puns, Purpose, and Perseverance: The 35-Year Legacy of Roger Alink’s Wildlife West
EDGEWOOD, N.M. (AP) — On a windswept stretch of the East Mountains where the high desert air carries the scent of sage and pine, Roger...
The Song is Ending: New Mexico’s Iconic Musical Highway Falling into Harsh Disrepair
TIJERAS, NM — It was once hailed as a triumph of “fun engineering” a stretch of the Mother Road that didn’t just carry travelers but...
Smoke, Iron, and Resilience: Keeping the Fire Alive at Ribs BBQ
CEDAR CREST, N.M. — Along the winding curves of the Turquoise Trail, the scent of hickory smoke has long served as a beacon for hungry...
Quarter Mile Down Tunes: When a Symphony Descended into a Gold Mine
GOLDEN – On Sunday, May 19, 1940, as the shadow of war lengthened across Europe, the Albuquerque Civic Symphony Orchestra (now the New Mexico Symphony...