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This Louisville resident is a retired public health worker and he plays Santa Claus. Here's his take on Christmas and the pandemic.

This Louisville resident is a retired public health worker and he plays Santa Claus. Here's his take on Christmas and the pandemic.

Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 12.41 EDT Barbara Allen, by Jo Stafford I’d been playing the piano since I was five, and by the time I was 15 I was memorising Rachmaninov concertos. But Barbara Allen, recorded by Jo Stafford, turned me towards the music that was becoming the rebirth of folk music in the US. I knew Stafford’s voice very well – her My Funny Valentine was one of our favourites. She was such a magnificent singer, and her version of Barbara Allen was just stunning. That and The Gypsy Rover were songs that plunged me into a new life. I often say, though, that I was b...

   The first inductees into the Belmond-Klemme Hall of Fame are two undefeated football teams and three individual state champions.   The 1963 Bronco football team was the first team in school history to go undefeated while the 1964 team followed up with the same record.   The individual inductees are:   • Art Hoffman - cross country state champion with a time of 10:13.9 in 1961;   • Murray Katter - long jump state champion with a jump of 21’ 1.75” in 1972;   • Brad Groesbeck - 440 yard state champion with a time...

COVID-19 by the numbers Over the weekend, health officials reported 2,519 additional COVID-19 cases—1,442 on Saturday and 1,077 on Sunday—bringing the statewide total so far to 129,993. Of those, the health department has designated 54,357 as recovered. Bernalillo County led with 727 new cases over the weekend, followed by San Juan County with 335 and Doña Ana County with 206. Santa Fe added 109 new cases: 66 on Saturday, 34 of which came from the Southside 87507 ZIP code, which ranked eighth in the state for most new cases on that day. Santa Fe County had 43 new cases on Sunday. The...