New Mexico Allows More People In Businesses In Cold Weather –
Associated Press
New Mexico officials are amending the state s public health order on the coronavirus to allow more people inside grocery stores and other essential businesses.
The governor s office made the announcement Wednesday, citing the recent frigid temperatures as a reason for the slight increase in capacity levels.
Waiting lines have been forming outside grocery stores and other retailers since Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered capacity to be limited at establishments around the state as a way to curb the spread of COVID-19.
She has said the tough measures have helped to reduce new infections. However, deaths and hospitalizations related to the pandemic remain high.
LOS LUNASâThe search is over.Â
After looking for a new superintendent, the Los Lunas Board of Education finally made its choice on Monday.
Arsenio Romero, Ph.D. currently the superintendent and chief executive officer of Deming Public Schools, has been named the new superintendent after a unanimous vote by the Los Lunas Schools Board of Education.
Romero will start his new job on Jan. 18, and his contract with Los Lunas Schools is for two years, and with a starting salary of $160,000.
âI am very excited about it. This is something that is . an amazing thing because Iâm able to come back to the community I grew up in,â Romero said. âIâm very much looking forward to the great people in the community and the great school system. And Iâm lucky to be able to be a part of it now.â
Tom Huizenga
Tom Huizenga is a producer for NPR Music. He contributes a wide range of stories about classical music to NPR s news programs and is the classical music reviewer for
All Things Considered. He appears regularly on NPR Music podcasts and founded NPR s classical music blog
Joining NPR in 1999, Huizenga produced, wrote and edited NPR s Peabody Award-winning daily classical music show
Performance Today and the programs
SymphonyCastand
World of Opera.
He s produced live radio broadcasts from the Kennedy Center and other venues, including New York s (Le) Poisson Rouge, where he created NPR s first classical music webcast featuring the Emerson String Quartet.
Retired New Mexico State University deans Susan Brown and Elizabeth Titus have been recognized as dean emeritae by NMSU Provost Carol Parker. Both Brown and Titus were recognized for their service to the university at the Dec. 2 NMSU Board of Regents meeting. Elizabeth Titus, retired library dean at New Mexico State University, was recently named dean emerita by NMSU Provost Carol Parker. (NMSU photo) Susan Brown, former interim dean of New Mexico State Universitys College of Education, was recently named dean emerita by NMSU Provost Carol Parker (NMSU photo by Josh Bachman)
Titus retired from the university Oct. 1. She joined NMSU as dean of the library in July 2000. Parker had previously named Titus, the librarys first woman dean, professor emerita in recognition for her contributions to NMSU and the state.
The College of Engineering at New Mexico State University, in partnership with the New Mexico Ready Mix Concrete and Aggregates Association, will host a virtual concrete training for the construction industry Jan. 8-9. The 57th annual Samuel P. Maggard Quality Concrete School is designed for concrete professionals, contractors, professional engineers and students.
Named for the late, long-time professor of civil engineering, Sam Doc Maggard, who established the annual training, the Quality Concrete School teaches the latest technologies for concrete applications. The 2021 program addresses a range of competencies from basic properties of concrete, sampling and testing to special topics such as cold weather concreting, in-transit concrete management and acceptance testing.