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For live, brief weekly updates of county news, tune in Wednesdays to Jack Lutz in the Morning at approximately 7:35 a.m. on The Rocket 99.5 or on Your Morning Show at approximately 8:10 a.m. on KVLC, 101-Gold, and on Magic 105 at approximately 7:40 a.m.. On Thursday mornings, you can tune in to the KGRT Morning Country Show with Joel and Patricia at approximately 7:40 a.m., then on HOT 103.1's Morning Show (approx. 8:02-8:05 a.m.). In addition, you can hear updates throughout the week at various times on AM 570, KSNM
Most Dona Ana County offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 28-29, 2002, to allow employees to observe the Thanksgiving holiday.
Less than a year ago, Doña Ana County was coping with a catastrophic computer hardware failure that crippled access to information, both internally and externally. The crash inconvenienced scores of Realtors, title company employees, mortgage lenders and Internet-savvy residents who used the county’s on-line research databanks to make their lives easier.
I am proud to announce that Doña Ana County received the 2002 New Mexico Character Counts! Award for Leadership at an Oct. 18 luncheon sponsored by the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce and Albuquerque Character Counts!.
Most Dona Ana County offices will be closed Monday, Nov. 11, 2002 to allow employees to observe Veterans’ Day. Emergency services and law enforcement will not be affected.
The Doña Ana County Clerk’s Office has been notified that a number of absentee ballots mailed out on Oct. 21 were held up for several days within the postal system.
Acting on a court order from Third Judicial District Judge Robert Robles, the Doña Ana County Clerk’s office opened all absentee ballot boxes Friday, Oct. 25, 2002, and compared the coded precinct information on 424 ballots to see whether the voters voted in the correct races.
On Friday, 101 Gold will air a live radio broadcast from the Anthony Volunteer Fire Department, in cooperation with the Doña Ana County Fire Marshal’s Office and the Doña Ana County Office of Public Information and Special Projects.
Interim Doña Ana County Clerk J. Joe Martinez and his staff discovered a clerical error Oct. 23 that resulted in several dozen incorrect absentee ballots being mailed to voters.
Recent heavy rains in Doña Ana County – particularly in the Vado area – have rendered some non-county roads impassable to emergency vehicles.
Volunteers from throughout Doña Ana County are being solicited for a project Saturday, Oct. 26, to place 17 semi-truckloads of sod on the new ball field complex of the Doña Ana Village Park, which will be jointly maintained by Doña Ana County and village volunteers.
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