Print Edition 4-25-2013
San Antonio
San Antonio Natives Pen Book on 1945 UFO Crash
By Ben Moffett
Forget the Roswell UFO of the summer of 1947 when a crashed and unidentified flying object was reported in the general vicinity of that city in a military news release. Ignore the April 24, 1964 UFO claim by the late Socorro city policeman Lonnie Zamora, who radioed headquarters at 5:45 p.m. that while in pursuit of a speeder, he had seen a UFO, with sentient beings aboard, take off at the south edge of the city.
Laborcita — A Small Village Between San Antonio and Luis Lopez
By Ben Moffett
You can’t find Laborcita, that wide-spot in the road between the metropolises of Luis Lopez and San Antonio, in that fine book, The Place Names of New Mexico, anymore — at least I can’t find in my revised edition, by Robert Julyan, published by UNM Press in 1998.
Magdalena And Socorro Schools Fail To Meet Standards
The New Mexico Public Education Department released the Adequate Yearly Progress rankings for 831 public schools on Friday. The AYP rankings reveal that nearly 87 percent of New Mexico’s schools are not making adequate progress under the federal No Child left Behind Act. When it comes to student proficiency, only 42 percent of New Mexico students perform at grade level in Math and Science and only 50 percent are proficient in Reading.
Socorro County Sheriff’s Blotter
The following items were taken from reports at the Socorro County Sheriff’s Department.
March 10
A man on Frontage Road reported at 11:30 a.m. that he found the license plate from his 2010 Dodge was missing. He did not know if it had been taken off or if it was lost.
