When Executive Producer Diego Lopez speaks of “The Way We Carry Water” — an award winning short film written and directed by Makaio Frazier — he sounds like a proud parent.

Winning a district title has been a goal that has just eluded the grasp of the Española Valley girls tennis team. Until now.

The goals for the Mesa Vista boys and girls track teams are fairly simple: Get both teams on the medal stand when the Class 2A state championship team trophies are handed out next month.

After Ryan Cordova was not retained as head boys basketball coach at Pojoaque Valley High School earlier in the month, the Elks wasted little time in bringing in his replacement.

The regular season for spring sports finishes up this week as teams eye their potential for advancing into the postseason.

By Jennifer Garcia

Spurred by an influx of seniors returning to track and field, Escalante High School is enjoying one of its largest teams in years.

Fire personnel were still mopping up hot spots Monday after a brush fire broke out Friday night on North Riverside Drive, forcing evacuations from West Pueblo Drive to the Santa Claran Hotel Casino and resulted in 44 acres being burnt.

An Española jail guard resigned after he allegedly beat a handcuffed man so severely, he required 26 stitches to his face, after he called the officer a “little girl” and said he likes to wear wigs.

A woman was shot in the leg Feb. 27 in the Goodwill parking lot after a man and woman approached the car she was in and said “give me everything you got.”

A man was stabbed March 20 in the Goodwill parking lot, but police were unable to do anything about it for lack of cooperation and information.

A La Mesilla man is facing several charges after Española City Police officers responded to a call for a domestic violence incident in progress on Carr Lane.