Life & times in Southern New Mexico

Ponch Says Don’t Drive Drunk in New Mexico

CHiPs actor Erik Estrada joins NM Gov. Bill Richardson for traffic safety program kickoff
By The Associated Press
Posted: 05/29/2009
ALBUQUERQUE – Actor Erik Estrada, known for portraying Officer Frank Poncherello in the 1970s television show “CHiPs,” is helping a New Mexico crackdown on drunk and reckless drivers.
Estrada will appear in a TV commercial, on billboards and do [...]

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World’s Largest Pistachio

Alamogordo farm is home to giant pistachio sculpture
By Michael Johnson/For the Sun-News
Posted: 05/09/2009
ALAMOGORDO — There are plenty of large, man-made oddities that people can find throughout the world.
There’s the world’s largest baked potato in Blackfoot, Idaho, the world’s biggest buffalo in Jamestown, N.D., a larger-than-life hockey stick and puck in Duncan, British Columbia, and a [...]

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The Butterball Gang Strikes Again

Yesterday evening was exceptionally strange in my neighborhood, usually on the quiet side (not including barking dogs), and it convinced me that I made the right choice by finally deciding it’s time to move to a new place.
Returning from a quick walk to the store I was only a few blocks from home when I [...]

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