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NMSU film students launch campaign to encourage stimulus donations to Camp Hope Minerva Baumann LAS CRUCES - A team of New Mexico State University student filmmakers is using the film medium to make a difference in the Las Cruces community. The team shot a film and coupled it with a GoFundMe campaign in an effort to raise $10,000 in 45 days to fund one year of resources for 50 people at Camp Hope, which serves Las Cruces’ homeless population. The campaign, launched in late March, encourages the community to donate a portion of their stimulus checks to Camp Hope. In its first two weeks, ...

By News Editor And Partners • 4 hours ago   New Mexico State University’s Creative Media Institute not only teaches state-of-the-art filmmaking and animation techniques to make students marketable for jobs in the film and television industry, but one course is helping them use the tools of filmmaking to make a difference in the Las Cruces community.   “I think a lot of people think about the kinds of movies you see at the Allen Theaters, when they think of what it is we do as filmmakers and creating moving images for entertainment is definitely a big part of what we t...

By News Editor And Partners • 5 hours ago   The Las Cruces City Council unanimously adopted a Resolution at its April 5 regular meeting that supports the transition of City government’s fleet to zero-emission vehicles and will encourage citywide clean transportation options.  Here is a statement from the City: The Resolution pledges that 50 percent of the City’s fleet, of approximately 1,000 vehicles, will be electric vehicles by 2030. The transition will begin with the City ordering as many as four vehicles during the 2022 fiscal year, which begins July ...

Los Alamos resident second to run 300-mile Monumental Loop around Las Cruces Leah Romero, Las Cruces Sun-News © Courtesy Garth Reader, right, of Los Alamos finishes the Monumental Loop Friday morning, Feb. 26, 2021, in the Mesilla Plaza. The 300-mile trek took Reader about six days to complete. LAS CRUCES – The second person to complete running Monumental Loop in Doña Ana County finished Friday morning. Monumental Loop is a 316-mile bikepacking route that is roughly in the shape of a figure eight. It includes areas within the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Monument such as...

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico. LAS CRUCES — Dorris Hamilton, a 91-year-old retired middle-school principal, had started to notice some odd things happening in her life: She had stopped receiving all mail at her home of 50 years right off Las Cruces’ busy Main Street. She was locked out of all four of her bank accounts across town. Then, one morning in late August 2019, someone knocked on her door and presented her with a document issued by a judge, authorizing her “transport” to a nursing home. In disbelief, Hamilton got into her gold Nissan Altima an...