Hemp Manufacturing Act goes into effect August 1

As the enactment date of the emergency rules looms, The New Mexico Environment Department will host a series of informational meetings for people interested in manufacturing, processing and transporting products made from hemp.

The emergency rules will take effect on the same day as the Hemp Manufacturing Act, August 1.  It allows for the transportation, warehousing, extraction and manufacture of hemp and hemp-derived products, including food and body products. Enactment of emergency rules will allow hemp processing to get underway as quickly as possible in the state.

Environmental Health Bureau Chief Bill Chavez says, “We encourage...

The Gallup baseball traveling team 6-4-3 Militia, went to Las Cruces on July 3, for competition games.  They began pool play July 4 and 5 and won third place in the Silver Division of the Global World Series out of 21 teams after playing a total of nine games in four days.

This is the second ring they have received as a team.  They also took second place in the Spring League in the St. Patrick’s Tournament in Albuquerque.

The team’s name, 6-4-3, means a double play.  Coach Tommy Gonzales explains that he used ‘Militia’ because it is a show of strength.

The Gallup State Veterans Cemetery had its first burial July 10.  It was a Columbarium interment.

The cemetery, which was opened on Memorial Day, will have 448 gravesites, 140 in-ground cremains burial sites, and 400 columbarium wall crypts. The 2.5-acre site, was funded by a $5.7 million VA Cemetery Program Grant.

It is the second of what will eventually be four state veterans cemeteries built using a State Veterans Cemetery Initiative launched by the New Mexico Department of Veterans Services in 2013 to build cemeteries for rural-area veterans in New Mexico.

The first-the Ft. Stanton State Veterans Cemetery-opened in the fall of 2017. Ground was broken last October for a third...