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The following Deming Headlight year in review looks back at highlights from June through December. July 5 Major Division Champs Deming Major Division (11-12) boys captured the District 7 Little League Baseball Championship with a 15-5 victory over the Silver City All Stars at E.J. Hooten Park in Deming. New city hall Construction is near completion at the new city of Deming business office located at 1205 E. Pine St., …

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Could there have been a worse way to announce the movement to create a national monument in Luna County? I doubt it. The event was not advertised in the Deming Headlight or the Deming Chamber’s weekly email. Ray Trejo, a county commissioner and supporter of the Mimbres Peak Monument Coalition was a guest speaker at the event, and did not even notify fellow Commissioners Colette Chandler and John Sweetser of …

Last week, a collaborative effort was announced to turn the Florida Mountains and surrounding peaks in Luna County, New Mexico, into the Mimbres Peak National Monument, which advocates say would conserve Indigenous cultural and historical resources while boosting the recreational economy. The proposed national monument would include more than 245,000 acres that are home to cultural and historic sites important to modern-day tribes and pueblos who hold deep spiritual connections with the lands. “The lands surrounding Deming hold stories and a history that have shaped our community for ...

About 245,000 acres amid historical mountains in Luna County have been proposed to be designated a national monument.