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Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record Plans for the 2021 UFO Festival are underway, and the city is preparing to restart its tourism marketing next month with a goal of increasing “heads in beds” and the resulting revenue. City officials discussed those plans during Thursday morning’s Finance Committee meeting with Chairman Jason Perry and committee members Jacob Roebuck and Margaret Kennard. Vice-chair Juan Oropesa was absent. In the public comments section toward the end of the 30-minute meeting, Perry asked Public Affairs Director Juanita Jennings about the festival, which was cance...

County staff and commissioners prepare Thursday for an online meeting with Dr. Daniel Sosin, a medical epidemiologist with the New Mexico Department of Health. Commissioner T. Calder Ezzell Jr. walks into the Commission Chamber. Commissioner Richard Taylor is seated at the dais. (Lisa Dunlap Photo) Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record Chaves County commissioners saw little reason to expect any lessening of COVID-19 restrictions in the near future after they talked Thursday with a state medical epidemiologist. Will Cavin, chair of the Chaves County Board of Commissioners, said he appreciated...

Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record Chaves County had two deaths related to COVID-19 among the 28 reported Thursday by the New Mexico Department of Health. The deceased were a man in his 50s and a woman in her 70s. The man had been hospitalized and both had underlying health conditions, according to the health department’s daily COVID-19 update. Of the other deaths, six were in San Juan County and five were in Bernalillo County. Eddy, McKinley and Santa Fe counties each had three. Lea and Torrance counties had two. Cibola and Doña Ana each had one. The total number of deaths in the stat...

Staff report Parking within the residential zones in Aspen will remain free through April and into May, the city’s parking department said in an email sent Thursday. The plan was to reinstate paid parking in the residential zones on Feb. 1 but, “due to Pitkin County moving into Red Level on the state’s COVID 19 dial, the parking team felt it was not in the best interest of the city and our citizens to go to paid parking in the residential zones at this time,” according to an email sent by the parking department. The city will continue to keep parking free through May 2 in the resident...

Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record Six more counties crossed the threshold into the Yellow Level in New Mexico’s COVID-19 risk assessment system Wednesday, according to the New Mexico Department of Health. Although Chaves County was not one of them, the local metrics again saw improvement. In Wednesday’s daily update, the state reported 755 new cases of COVID-19 including 47 in Chaves County. No local deaths related to the disease were among the 27 reported in the state. Grant, Sierra, Socorro, Los Alamos, San Miguel and Colfax counties joined Union County in the high-risk Yellow Leve...