New Mexico
New Mexico Better Newspaper Contest Winners
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Press Affiliation acknowledged the very best of New Mexico’s newspaper writing, pictures and promoting on the Higher Newspaper Contest Banquet on Saturday.
The group handed out awards to newspapers in 4 divisions: Weekly 2 – for weekly newspapers with a circulation beneath 4,999; Weekly 1 – for weekly newspapers with a circulation above 5,000; Every day 2 – for day by day newspapers with a circulation beneath 7,499; and Every day 1 – for newspapers with a circulation above 7,500.
A newspaper from every division is awarded for Common Excellence. This 12 months’s winners are: Santa Fe New Mexican, Every day I; Farmington Every day Occasions, Every day 2; Taos Information, Weekly I; and El Defensor Chieftain in Socorro, Weekly 2.
The competition was judged by the Wyoming Press Affiliation.
The awards have been handed out on the NMPA 113th Annual Conference.
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Weekly Class II NEWS WRITING 2nd Place Ryan Lowery Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class II NEWS WRITING 1st Place Justin Garcia Ruidoso Information
Weekly Class I NEWS WRITING 2nd Place Nicholas Gilmore Rio Grande Solar
Weekly Class I NEWS WRITING 1st Place Clara Garcia and Julia M. Dendinger Valencia County Information-Bulletin
Every day Class II NEWS WRITING 2nd Place Hannah Dumas Silver Metropolis Every day Press
Every day Class II NEWS WRITING 1st Place Lisa dunlap Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class I NEWS WRITING 2nd Place Victoria Traxler Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I NEWS WRITING 1st Place Michael McDevitt Las Cruces Solar-Information
Weekly Class I INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 2nd Place Nicholas Gilmore Rio Grande Solar
Weekly Class I INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 1st Place Will Hooper Taos Information
Every day Class II INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 1st Place Gabrielle Arsiaga Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class I INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 2nd Place Daniel J. Chacón Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 1st Place Elise Kaplan Albuquerque Journal
Weekly Class II OBITUARY NEWS 2nd Place Gabriel Myers Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class II OBITUARY NEWS 1st Place David Stevens Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class I OBITUARY NEWS 2nd Place William Melhado Santa Fe Reporter
Weekly Class I OBITUARY NEWS 1st Place Rick Romancito Taos Information
Every day Class II OBITUARY NEWS 2nd Place Daniel Russell Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class II OBITUARY NEWS 1st Place Mike Easterling Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class I OBITUARY NEWS 2nd Place Vida Volkert Gallup Impartial
Every day Class I OBITUARY NEWS 1st Place Phill Casaus Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class I BEST NEWS COVERAGE 2nd Place Valencia County Information-Bulletin Workers Valencia County Information-Bulletin
Weekly Class I BEST NEWS COVERAGE 1st Place Taos Information Editorial Workers Taos Information
Every day Class II BEST NEWS COVERAGE 2nd Place Information-Solar Workers Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class II BEST NEWS COVERAGE 1st Place Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class I BEST NEWS COVERAGE 2nd Place Santa Fe New Mexican workers
Every day Class I BEST NEWS COVERAGE 1st Place Albuquerque Journal workers
Weekly Class I BEST SPORTS COVERAGE 2nd Place Brienne Inexperienced, TJ Palma Artesia Every day Press
Weekly Class I BEST SPORTS COVERAGE 1st Place Denims Pineda Taos Information
Every day Class II BEST SPORTS COVERAGE 2nd Place Dean Thompson, Mikey Torrez Silver Metropolis Every day Press
Every day Class II BEST SPORTS COVERAGE 1st Place Steve Bortstein Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class I BEST SPORTS COVERAGE 2nd Place Will Webber, James Barron, Eric Hedlund, Jordan Fox Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I BEST SPORTS COVERAGE 1st Place Albuquerque Journal Sports activities Workers
Weekly Class II COLUMNS 2nd Place David Stevens Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class II COLUMNS 1st Place Brienne Inexperienced Artesia Every day Press
Weekly Class I COLUMNS 2nd Place Richard Coltharp Las Cruces Bulletin
Weekly Class I COLUMNS 1st Place J.R. Logan Taos Information
Every day Class II COLUMNS 2nd Place Blake Ovard Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class II COLUMNS 1st Place Gabrielle Arsiaga Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class I COLUMNS 2nd Place Milan Simonich Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I COLUMNS 1st Place Phill Casaus Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II SPORTS COLUMNS 2nd Place James Barron Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II SPORTS COLUMNS 1st Place David Stevens Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class I SPORTS COLUMNS 2nd Place Richard Coltharp Las Cruces Bulletin
Weekly Class I SPORTS COLUMNS 1st Place Richard Coltharp Las Cruces Bulletin
Every day Class II SPORTS COLUMNS 2nd Place Steve Bortstein Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class II SPORTS COLUMNS 1st Place John Dilmore Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class I SPORTS COLUMNS 2nd Place Steve Virgen Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I SPORTS COLUMNS 1st Place Will Webber Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class I BEST REVIEW 2nd Place John Larson El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class I BEST REVIEW 1st Place Julia Goldberg Santa Fe Reporter
Every day Class II BEST REVIEW 2nd Place Tom Hester Silver Metropolis Every day Press
Every day Class II BEST REVIEW 1st Place Tom Hester Silver Metropolis Every day Press
Every day Class I BEST REVIEW 2nd Place Michael Abatemarco Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I BEST REVIEW 1st Place Richard Dargan Albuquerque Journal
Weekly Class II EDITORIALS 2nd Place Phil Scherer Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class II EDITORIALS 1st Place David Stevens Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class I EDITORIALS 2nd Place Richard Connor Rio Grande Solar
Weekly Class I EDITORIALS 1st Place John Miller Taos Information
Every day Class II EDITORIALS 2nd Place Daniel Russell Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class II EDITORIALS 1st Place John R. Moses Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class I EDITORIALS 2nd Place Inez Russell Gomez Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I EDITORIALS 1st Place Jeff Tucker Albuquerque Journal
Weekly Class II BEST SERIES 2nd Place David Stevens Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class II BEST SERIES 1st Place David Stevens Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class I BEST SERIES 2nd Place William Melhado Santa Fe Reporter
Weekly Class I BEST SERIES 1st Place Geoffrey Plant, Will Hooper, John Miller and Nathan Burton Taos Information
Every day Class II BEST SERIES 2nd Place Peter Stein Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class II BEST SERIES 1st Place Mike Easterling Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class I BEST SERIES 2nd Place Adrian Gomez Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I BEST SERIES 1st Place Matthew Reisen Albuquerque Journal
Weekly Class II BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE 2nd Place John Larson, Cathy Prepare dinner El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class II BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE 1st Place Justin Garcia, Adrian Hedden, Nicole Maxwell Ruidoso Information
Weekly Class I BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE 2nd Place Grant Crawford Santa Fe Reporter
Weekly Class I BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE 1st Place Geoffrey Plant and Nathan Burton Taos Information
Every day Class II BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE 2nd Place Mike Smith Carlsbad Present Argus
Every day Class II BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE 1st Place Joshua Kellogg and John R. Moses Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class I BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE 2nd Place Richard Reyes Gallup Impartial
Every day Class I BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE 1st Place Albuquerque Journal Workers
Weekly Class II BREAKING NEWS 2nd Place Invoice Armendariz Deming Headlight
Weekly Class II BREAKING NEWS 1st Place Jessica Onsurez Ruidoso Information
Weekly Class I BREAKING NEWS 2nd Place Elva Okay. Österreich Las Cruces Bulletin
Weekly Class I BREAKING NEWS 1st Place Clara Garcia Valencia County Information-Bulletin
Every day Class II BREAKING NEWS 2nd Place Mike Smith, Adrian Hedden, Jessica Onsurez Carlsbad Present Argus
Every day Class II BREAKING NEWS 1st Place Gabrielle Arsiaga Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class I BREAKING NEWS 2nd Place Daniel J. Chacón Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I BREAKING NEWS 1st Place Phill Casaus Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class I CATEGORY: COVID-19 IN YOUR COMMUNITY 2nd Place Julia Goldberg Santa Fe Reporter
Weekly Class I CATEGORY: COVID-19 IN YOUR COMMUNITY 1st Place Michael Tashji, Will Hooper and Geoffrey Plant Taos Information
Every day Class II CATEGORY: COVID-19 IN YOUR COMMUNITY 1st Place Adrian Hedden Carlsbad Present Argus
Every day Class I CATEGORY: COVID-19 IN YOUR COMMUNITY 2nd Place Teya Vitu, Rick Ruggles, Phaedra Haywood, Daniel Chacón, Robert Nott Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I CATEGORY: COVID-19 IN YOUR COMMUNITY 1st Place Lucas Peerman, Algernon D’Ammassa, Miranda Cyr, Leah Romero Las Cruces Solar-Information
Weekly Class I EXPLANATION OF NEWS OPERATIONS OR NEWSPAPER 1st Place Taos Information Workers
Every day Class I EXPLANATION OF NEWS OPERATIONS OR NEWSPAPER 2nd Place Damien Willis Las Cruces Solar-Information
Every day Class I EXPLANATION OF NEWS OPERATIONS OR NEWSPAPER 1st Place Phill Casaus, Daniel Chacón Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II BEST SPECIAL SECTION 2nd Place Workers Cibola Citizen
Weekly Class II BEST SPECIAL SECTION 1st Place Workers Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class I BEST SPECIAL SECTION 2nd Place Workers Rio Rancho Observer
Weekly Class I BEST SPECIAL SECTION 1st Place Workers Valencia County Information-Bulletin
Every day Class I BEST SPECIAL SECTION 2nd Place Workers Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I BEST SPECIAL SECTION 1st Place Workers Albuquerque Journal
WEEKLY CLASS II BEST MAGAZINE 2nd Place Workers Cibola Citizen
Weekly Class II BEST MAGAZINE 1st Place Workers El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class I BEST MAGAZINE 2nd Place Workers Taos Information
Weekly Class I BEST MAGAZINE 1st Place Workers Taos Information
Every day Class I BEST MAGAZINE 2nd Place Workers Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I BEST MAGAZINE 1st Place Deborah Villa Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II GENERAL NEWS PHOTO 2nd Place Cathy Prepare dinner El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class II GENERAL NEWS PHOTO 1st Place Invoice Armendariz Deming Headlight
Weekly Class I GENERAL NEWS PHOTO 2nd Place Nathan Burton Taos Information
Weekly Class I GENERAL NEWS PHOTO 1st Place Nathan Burton Taos Information
Every day Class II GENERAL NEWS PHOTO 2nd Place Jordan Archunde Silver Metropolis Every day Press
Every day Class II 24. GENERAL NEWS PHOTO 1st Place Juno Ogle Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class I 24. GENERAL NEWS PHOTO 2nd Place Roberto E. Rosales Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I GENERAL NEWS PHOTO 1st Place Jim Weber Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II SPORTS PHOTO 2nd Place Jennifer Palma Artesia Every day Press
Weekly Class II SPORTS PHOTO 1st Place Invoice Armendariz Deming Headlight
Weekly Class I SPORTS PHOTO 2nd Place Nathan Burton Taos Information
Weekly Class I SPORTS PHOTO 1st Place Nathan Burton Taos Information
Every day Class II SPORTS PHOTO 2nd Place Andy Brosig Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class II SPORTS PHOTO 1st Place Jason Farmer Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class I SPORTS PHOTO 2nd Place Roberto E. Rosales Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I SPORTS PHOTO 1st Place Jim Weber Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II FEATURE PHOTO 2nd Place Jennifer Palma Artesia Every day Press
Weekly Class II FEATURE PHOTO 1st Place Elizabeth Gibson Artesia Every day Press
Weekly Class I FEATURE PHOTO 2nd Place Clara Garcia Valencia County Information-Bulletin
Weekly Class I FEATURE PHOTO 1st Place Nathan Burton Taos Information
Every day Class II FEATURE PHOTO 2nd Place Juno Ogle Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class II FEATURE PHOTO 1st Place Andy Brosig Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class I FEATURE PHOTO 2nd Place Eddie Moore Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I FEATURE PHOTO 1st Place Jim Weber Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class I PHOTO SERIES 2nd Place Robert Eckert Rio Grande Solar
Weekly Class I PHOTO SERIES 1st Place Nathan Burton Taos Information
Every day Class II PHOTO SERIES 2nd Place Dean Thompson Silver Metropolis Every day Press
Every day Class II PHOTO SERIES 1st Place Christina Inventory, Juno Ogle and Lisa Dunlap Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class I PHOTO SERIES 2nd Place Gabriels Campos, Luis Sanchez-Saturno, Jim Weber Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I PHOTO SERIES 1st Place Gabriela Campos Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class I ONLINE PHOTO GALLERY 2nd Place Ruidoso Information Ruidoso Information
Weekly Class I ONLINE PHOTO GALLERY 1st Place Nathan Burton Taos Information
Every day Class II ONLINE PHOTO GALLERY 1st Place Noel Lyn Smith Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class I ONLINE PHOTO GALLERY 2nd Place Gabriela Campos, Jim Weber Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class I BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA 2nd Place Workers Taos Information
Weekly Class I BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA 1st Place Nathan Burton and Geoffrey Plant Taos Information
Every day Class I BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA 2nd Place Digital Enterprise Workers Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA 1st Place Damien Willis Las Cruces Solar-Information
Weekly Class I BREAKING NEWS – DIGITAL 2nd Place Michael Tashji and John Miller Taos Information
Weekly Class I BREAKING NEWS – DIGITAL 1st Place Ruidoso Information Ruidoso Information
Every day Class I BREAKING NEWS – DIGITAL 2nd Place Las Cruces Solar-Information workers
Every day Class I BREAKING NEWS – DIGITAL 1st Place Santa Fe New Mexican Digital Enterprise workers
Weekly Class II SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD 2nd Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class II SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD 1st Place Andrea Ramos Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class I SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD 2nd Place Chris Wooden Taos Information
Weekly Class I SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD 1st Place Chris Wooden Taos Information
Every day Class II SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD 2nd Place Desiree Delgado Silver Metropolis Every day Press
Every day Class II SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD 1st Place Aric Loomis Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class I SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD 2nd Place Wanda Moeller, Doug Brown Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD 1st Place Justin Bixler Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN 2nd Place Chris Wooden Taos Information
Weekly Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN 1st Place Tyler Northrop Taos Information
Every day Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN 2nd Place Digital Enterprise and Lisa Vakharia Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN 1st Place Wanda Moeller, Doug Brown Albuquerque Journal
Weekly Class II BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION 2nd Place Workers Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class II BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION 1st Place Workers Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class I BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION 2nd Place Paul Gutches Taos Information
Weekly Class I BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION 1st Place Shane Atkinson Taos Information
Every day Class II BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION 2nd Place Workers Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class II BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION 1st Place Workers Hobbs Information Solar Straight to the purpose
Every day Class I BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION 2nd Place Wayne Barnard,
Every day Class I BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION 1st Place Wanda Moeller, Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I INNOVATIVE ONLINE ADVERTISING 1st Place Digital Enterprise Group Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class I DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY 2nd Place Clara Garcia Valencia County Information-Bulletin
Weekly Class I DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY 1st Place Karin Eberhardt Taos Information
Every day Class II DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY 2nd Place Toby Martinez Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class II DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY 1st Place Workers Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class I 34. DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY 2nd Place Workers Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I 34. DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY 1st Place Workers Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – BLACK & WHITE 2nd Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class II RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – BLACK & WHITE 1st Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class I RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – BLACK & WHITE 2nd Place Paul Gutches Taos Information
Weekly Class I RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – BLACK & WHITE 1st Place S’zanne Reynolds Taos Information
Every day Class II RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – BLACK & WHITE 2nd Place Sandra Martinez Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class II RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – BLACK & WHITE 1st Place Cindy Bentle Hobbs Information Solar
Weekly Class II RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – COLOR 2nd Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class II RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – COLOR 1st Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class I RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – COLOR 2nd Place Chris Wooden Taos Information
Weekly Class I RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – COLOR 1st Place Paul Gutches, Shane Atkinson Taos Information
Every day Class II RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – COLOR 2nd Place Sandra Martinez Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class II RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – COLOR 1st Place Aric Loomis Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class I RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – COLOR 2nd Place Justin Bixler Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT – COLOR 1st Place Justin Bixler Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN – DIGITAL 2nd Place Paul Gutches, Shane Atkinson Taos Information
Weekly Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN – DIGITAL 1st Place Paul Gutches, Chris Wooden Taos Information
Every day Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN – DIGITAL 2nd Place Robert Gutierrez, Doug Brown Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN – DIGITAL 1st Place Aric Loomis Roswell Every day Report
Weekly Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN – PRINT 2nd Place Paul Gutches, Shane Atkinson Taos Information
Weekly Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN – PRINT 1st Place Paul Gutches Taos Information
Every day Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN – PRINT 2nd Place Justin Bixler Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN – PRINT 1st Place Justin Bixler Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II BEST WEB AD 2nd Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class II BEST WEB AD 1st Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class I BEST WEB AD 2nd Place Paul Gutches Taos Information
Weekly Class I BEST WEB AD 1st Place Paul Gutches Taos Information
Every day Class II BEST WEB AD 2nd Place Aric Loomis Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class II BEST WEB AD 1st Place Justin Bixler Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II SPORTS WRITING 2nd Place Brienne Inexperienced Artesia Every day Press
Weekly Class II SPORTS WRITING 1st Place Brienne Inexperienced Artesia Every day Press
Weekly Class I SPORTS WRITING 2nd Place Gary Herron Rio Rancho Observer
Weekly Class I SPORTS WRITING 1st Place Denims Pineda Taos Information
Every day Class II SPORTS WRITING 2nd Place Blynn Beltran Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class II SPORTS WRITING 1st Place Steve Bortstein Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class I SPORTS WRITING 2nd Place James Barron Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I SPORTS WRITING 1st Place Will Webber Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION 2nd Place Nancy Chavez El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class II CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION 1st Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class I CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION 2nd Place Mayra Aldaz Rio Grande Solar
Weekly Class I CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION 1st Place Mayra Aldaz Rio Grande Solar
Every day Class II CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION 2nd Place Debbie Seibel, Mikey Torrez, Tauna Gallagher Silver Metropolis Every day Press
Every day Class II CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION 1st Place Workers Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class I CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION 2nd Place Wayne Barnard, Lois Trujillo, Mark Morales, Nick Aragon, JJ Collins, Christian White, David Montoya Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION 1st Place Classifieds group Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 2nd Place Andrea Ramos Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class II HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 1st Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class I HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 2nd Place Chris Wooden Taos Information
Weekly Class I HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 1st Place Chris Wooden Taos Information
Every day Class II HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 2nd Place Aric Loomis Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class II HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 1st Place Cindy Bentle Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class I HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 2nd Place Wayne Barnard, Nancy Chavez Albuquerque Journal
Every day Class I HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT 1st Place Justin Bixler, Jim Weber Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Division BEST RATE CARD OR MARKETING KIT 2nd Place Karin Eberhardt Taos Information
Weekly Division BEST RATE CARD OR MARKETING KIT 1st Place Karin Eberhardt Taos Information
Every day Division BEST RATE CARD OR MARKETING KIT 2nd Place Wanda Moeller, Wayne Barnard, Steve Gall Albuquerque Journal
Every day Division BEST RATE CARD OR MARKETING KIT 1st Place Cindy Bentle Hobbs Information Solar
Weekly Class I SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE 2nd Place Tyler Northrop Taos Information
Weekly Class I SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE 1st Place Chris Wooden Taos Information
Every day Class I SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE 2nd Place Santa Fe New Mexican Classifieds Group Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE 1st Place Wayne Barnard, Nancy Chavez Albuquerque Journal
Weekly Class II OBITUARY PAGE 2nd Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class II OBITUARY PAGE 1st Place Maria Sanchez Las Vegas Optic
Weekly Class I OBITUARY PAGE 2nd Place Clara Garcia Valencia County Information-Bulletin
Weekly Class I OBITUARY PAGE 1st Place Mary Chavez, Gabrielle Sanchez, Sean Linton Taos Information
Every day Class II OBITUARY PAGE 2nd Place The Workers of the Farmington Every day Occasions Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class II OBITUARY PAGE 1st Place Wayne Barnard, Delilah Guzman Albuquerque Journal
Month-to-month Division BEST FEATURE STORY 1st Place Elva Okay. Österreich Desert Publicity
Month-to-month Division FRONT PAGE DESIGN 1st Place Albert Vasquez, Elva Okay. Österreich Desert Publicity
Weekly Class II BUSINESS WRITING 2nd Place Cathy Prepare dinner El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class II BUSINESS WRITING 1st Place Cathy Prepare dinner El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class I BUSINESS WRITING 2nd Place Will Hooper Taos Information
Weekly Class I BUSINESS WRITING 1st Place Geoffrey Plant Taos Information
Every day Class II BUSINESS WRITING 2nd Place Steve Bortstein Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class II BUSINESS WRITING 1st Place Todd Bailey Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class I BUSINESS WRITING 2nd Place Michael McDevitt Las Cruces Solar-Information
Every day Class I BUSINESS WRITING 1st Place Gabrielle Porter, Pilar Martinez, Kevin Robinson-Avila, Stephen Hamway Albuquerque Journal
Weekly Class II BEST WEBSITE 2nd Place Workers Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class II BEST WEBSITE 1st Place Jessica Onsurez Ruidoso Information
Weekly Class I BEST WEBSITE 2nd Place Heather Owen Taos Information
Weekly Class I BEST WEBSITE 1st Place Brianna Kirkland Santa Fe Reporter
Every day Class II BEST WEBSITE 2nd Place Jessica Onsurez Alamogordo Every day Information
Every day Class II BEST WEBSITE 1st Place Aric Loomis Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class I BEST WEBSITE 2nd Place Digital Enterprise Group Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I BEST WEBSITE 1st Place Tracy Goldizen, Titus Hilton, Kevin Hendricks, Rene Thompson, Scott Albright, Half Pixel Neighborhood Journal
Weekly Class II ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING 2nd Place John Larson El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class II ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING 1st Place Cathy Prepare dinner El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class I ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING 2nd Place Julia Goldberg Santa Fe Reporter
Weekly Class I ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING 1st Place Julie Ann Grimm Santa Fe Reporter
Every day Class II ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING 2nd Place Adrian Hedden, Mike Smith Carlsbad Present Argus
Every day Class II ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING 1st Place Adrian Hedden, Thomas Zambito Carlsbad Present Argus
Every day Class I ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING 2nd Place Daniel J. Chacón Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING 1st Place Scott Wyland Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II EDUCATION WRITING 2nd Place Cathy Prepare dinner El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class II EDUCATION WRITING 1st Place Cathy Prepare dinner El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class I EDUCATION WRITING 2nd Place Geoffrey Plant Taos Information
Weekly Class I EDUCATION WRITING 1st Place Sol Traverso Taos Information
Every day Class II EDUCATION WRITING 2nd Place Andy Brosig Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class II EDUCATION WRITING 1st Place Juno Ogle Roswell Every day Report
Every day Class I EDUCATION WRITING 2nd Place Miranda Cyr Las Cruces Solar-Information
Every day Class I EDUCATION WRITING 1st Place Jessica Pollard Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II FEATURE WRITING 2nd Place Cathy Prepare dinner El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class II FEATURE WRITING 1st Place Elizabeth Gibson Artesia Every day Press
Weekly Class I FEATURE WRITING 2nd Place Julia M. Dendinger Valencia County Information-Bulletin
Weekly Class I FEATURE WRITING 1st Place Carol A. Clark, Bonnie J. Gordon Los Alamos Every day Put up
Every day Class II FEATURE WRITING 2nd Place Andy Brosig Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class II FEATURE WRITING 1st Place Blake Ovard Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class I FEATURE WRITING 2nd Place Jennifer Levin Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I FEATURE WRITING 1st Place Robert Nott, Scott Wyland Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II BEST HEADLINE WRITING 2nd Place Kevin Wilson Japanese New Mexico Information
Weekly Class II BEST HEADLINE WRITING 1st Place Brienne Inexperienced Artesia Every day Press
Weekly Class I BEST HEADLINE WRITING 2nd Place Riley Gardner Santa Fe Reporter
Weekly Class I BEST HEADLINE WRITING 1st Place Makayla Grijalva and Julia M. Dendinger Valencia County Information-Bulletin
Every day Class II BEST HEADLINE WRITING 2nd Place Jason Farmer Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class II BEST HEADLINE WRITING 1st Place Information-Solar Workers Hobbs Information Solar
Every day Class I BEST HEADLINE WRITING 2nd Place Jordan Fox Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I BEST HEADLINE WRITING 1st Place Elizabeth Trujillo Albuquerque Journal
Weekly Class I PUBLIC SERVICE 1st Place Workers Taos Information
Every day Class II PUBLIC SERVICE 1st Place Nickolas Seibel, Geoffrey Plant, D. Matthew Runnels Silver Metropolis Every day Press
Every day Class I PUBLIC SERVICE 2nd Place Milan Simonich, Robert Nott, Daniel Chacon, Inez Gomez Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I PUBLIC SERVICE 1st Place Rick Nathanson and Journal Workers Albuquerque Journal
Weekly Class I SUNSHINE AWARD 2nd Place Santa Fe Reporter Santa Fe Reporter
Weekly Class I SUNSHINE AWARD 1st Place Rick Romancito Taos Information
Every day Class II SUNSHINE AWARD 1st Place Nickolas Seibel, Geoffrey Plant Silver Metropolis Every day Press
Every day Class I SUNSHINE AWARD 2nd Place Victoria Traxler Santa Fe New Mexican
Every day Class I SUNSHINE AWARD 1st Place Victoria Traxler, Phaedra Haywood, Phill Casaus Santa Fe New Mexican
Weekly Class II GENERAL EXCELLENCE- 1st Place Workers El Defensor Chieftain
Weekly Class I GENERAL EXCELLENCE- 1st Place Workers Taos Information
Every day Class II GENERAL EXCELLENCE- 1st Place Workers Farmington Every day Occasions
Every day Class I GENERAL EXCELLENCE- 1st Place Workers Santa Fe New Mexican
RATON, N.M. — Northbound Interstate 25 is closed through Raton Pass due to icy, snow-packed conditions and zero visibility.
The closure goes from mile marker 454, in Raton, to mile marker 460, at Raton Pass and the port of entry.
The New Mexico Department of Transportation camera on I-25 at Raton Pass shows what conditions looked like on the road at around noon Monday:
Northbound I-25 isn’t the only major highway closed in the area. Authorities also closed U.S. Highway 64 earlier in the day from Raton to Clayton – an 82-mile stretch. NMDOT cited road conditions that became “unsafe for travel due to inclement weather.
The NMDOT camera on U.S. 64 at Capulin showed this at around noon Monday:
New Mexico
Despite wrongful denials, New Mexico veteran who completed his sentence for a felony finally votes • Source New Mexico
Virgil Dixon was born in New Mexico but had been away for two decades moving around the country, following his son and grandchild to remain close to them.
Dixon, 71, made it a priority to register to vote and was able to cast ballots everywhere he lived: in Iowa, Oregon and Minnesota.
Those states, like New Mexico, allow people like Dixon – who was once convicted of a felony – to vote.
But after he returned to his home state in 2022, he tried to register to vote the following year and was denied his right, because he was convicted of possessing cocaine more than two decades earlier.
People with felony convictions can vote in New Mexico. The state has for many years allowed people who are out of prison — and who are no longer on probation or parole — to re-register to vote.
When Dixon tried to register to vote in 2023, Bernalillo County Clerk Linda Stover sent him an outdated registration form asking him whether he served his full time in prison.
The thing is, Dixon has never been in prison. A judge sentenced him to one year of unsupervised probation, and he completed it in 2001.
However, on July 27, 2023, Stover wrote a letter to Dixon telling him he was not eligible to vote because he had been convicted of a felony.
Whenever someone is convicted of a felony in New Mexico, the state’s voter registration system attaches a “felony flag” to their name, making them ineligible to vote.
Until a 2023 change in the law, the only way to get the flag removed was for the Corrections Department or the voter themselves to have it removed.
This resulted in felony flags being attached not just to people in prison but also to everyone who had ever been convicted of a felony, including those still on probation or parole, and those who had long completed their sentences.
Dixon said he felt like tearing up the letter. He tried to register a second time in September 2024, and was rejected again for the same reason.
“My spirit just got shot down,” he said in an interview.
Dixon said the denials triggered his post-traumatic stress disorder. He was a U.S. Army combat engineer in the Vietnam War from 1972 to 1973.
“I blew my top,” Dixon said. “I was ready to say, ‘To heck with it all,’ you know?”
‘Emotional disenfranchisement’
On July 1, 2023, a new state law went into effect, restoring voting rights to people with felony convictions as soon as they get out of prison, including those who are still on probation or parole.
It restored the franchise to an estimated 11,000 New Mexicans, according to the Sentencing Project, which advocates for lowering the number of people behind bars.
But over the following 15 months, Dixon and about 900 other New Mexicans’ voter registrations were wrongfully denied because New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver used an incorrect list showing they were still in prison, said Daniel Yohalem, a civil rights attorney representing Dixon and the other plaintiffs in the case.
The new law requires the New Mexico Corrections Department to give Toulouse Oliver a list of people in prison and therefore ineligible to vote, so she can register everyone who’s eligible, including those on probation and parole.
However, the Corrections Department failed to give her the list, leaving her to rely on outdated and inaccurate information to populate the statewide voter registration system.
When the county clerks ran those registrations against the Secretary of State’s bad list, that caused those people to be rejected, Yohalem said in an interview.
After repeated unsuccessful attempts over the past year to convince Toulouse Oliver to implement the new law, court documents show, Yohalem and the Washington D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center filed the lawsuit.
Less than two weeks later, on Oct. 8, a judge ordered Toulouse Oliver and the Corrections Department to make the changes needed to implement the new law.
Following the judge’s order, Toulouse Oliver directed all 33 county clerks to stop using the old voter registration form, and to use only the new corrected ones, Yohalem said.
The old forms were unlawful because they incorrectly stated that, unless the governor had personally pardoned them, people with felony convictions cannot vote until they had served their whole sentence and completed all conditions of parole probation, according to the lawsuit.
Toulouse Oliver also changed some incorrect references to the old forms on her official website, Yohalem said.
Toulouse Oliver compiled a list of the people who were improperly denied after the new law went into effect, sent it to the clerks and directed them to reprocess those people, and unless they’ve gone back into prison for a new crime, they’re supposed to be registered, he said.
The Corrections Department sent an updated list of people in prison as of Oct. 1 to Toulouse Oliver, and set up a hotline for clerks to call to determine whether someone is incarcerated.
But people impacted by the criminal legal system aren’t going to return to a government building asking to vote, said Selinda Guerrero, a core organizer with Millions for Prisoners New Mexico, a plaintiff in the suit. She calls this “emotional disenfranchisement.”
“There’s so many restrictions if you’ve been convicted of a felony that you essentially are under Jim Crow law,” she said. “You’re a second-class citizen.”
When she tried to reach back out to people who had been wrongly rejected, some had completely lost hope, she said.
“We’re having to re-energize people and try to convince them that this also belongs to them all over again,” Guerrero said.
‘This is home’
As part of the lawsuit, Dixon explained to the court why voting is important to him as a citizen of the Navajo Nation.
“I want to be able to vote in my home state of New Mexico, where my Diné homelands are,” he said in a sworn affidavit.
During World War II, Dixon’s grandfather Richard Thomas, of Shiprock, was a Navajo Code Talker, a group that used their tribal language to secretly transmit messages during battles against Japan. The state of New Mexico did not provide Native Americans the right to vote until a U.S. Marine and Pueblo of Isleta citizen used the courts to force the issue in 1948, well after that war ended.
Dixon’s case is an example of the barriers to Native voting access that remain to this day, including sparse mail pickup in rural and tribal regions, racist gerrymandering in local elections, and polling places located on the other side of poorly maintained or non-existent roads.
In fact, the same state law being fought over in this case also enacted the first-in-the-nation Native American Voting Rights Act, which mandates state and local election officials consult and cooperate with tribal governments on where to locate polling locations, among other reforms.
While there’s no national data for felony disenfranchisement’s impact on Native people, their representation in New Mexico’s population and criminal legal system indicates they’re heavily impacted by felony disenfranchisement laws and policies, according to Human Rights Watch.
Native American representation in New Mexico’s prisons — in other words their share of past felony convictions that land someone in prison — in 2023 surpassed the national rate, with just over 10% compared to 2% nationally, according to the New Mexico Sentencing Commission.
Dixon is a success story in this case. Stover reprocessed his and the other three named plaintiffs’ voter registrations after the judge’s order came down, Yohalem said. Dixon said he mailed in his 2024 ballot on Oct. 15.
“Now I know my voice is heard,” he said.
The day after he mailed in his ballot, Dixon said was sitting in his apartment in Albuquerque, looking at the Sandia Mountains through his bedroom window.
“Oh man, it’s good to be back home,” Dixon recalls telling himself – physically in the same place, but still a world away from the lost feeling he felt when he couldn’t vote.
He wants to hang around on this planet a little longer to see his grandchildren grow.
“I really feel like I’m settled in New Mexico, you know? This is home.”
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NEW MEXICO UNITED WINS FIRST-EVER HOME PLAYOFF MATCH, TOPS PHOENIX RISING, 2-1 – New Mexico United
In potentially the most important match in club history, New Mexico United topped Phoenix Rising by a score of 2-1, earning the victory in the first home playoff match in club history. Goals from Will Seymore and Mukwelle Akale earned the victory for the Black & Yellow, who moved on to host Las Vegas Lights FC in the Western Conference Semifinal on Saturday night. Kickoff in that match is scheduled for 7:30 PM.
It was Rising FC who scored first in this one. After a scoreless opening half, Phoenix’s Jearl Margaritha cut inside toward the top of the New Mexico box, and fired on his right foot. United goalkeeper Alex Tambakis deftly dove to parry the strike, but the rebound found the foot of Fede Varela, who first-time blocked the ball past Tambakis – who was still down after the initial save – for a 1-0 lead in the 49th minute.
Nine minutes later, United were level. Akale received a diagonal ball in the Rising box and chipped across. That high ball was headed away, but only as far as Marco Micaletto, who’s scissor kick was blocked and recovered by Nannan Houssou at the top of the box. After the ball bounced around the box for another ten seconds or so, it found an open Seymore, who cut to his right and fired. His thunderbolt hit all three bars on the net, trickling over the line for an equalizer.
The score remained level until the 85th minute. Avionne Flanagan carried the ball along the left side of the pitch, barrelling past Phoenix’s Laurence Wyke before sending a terrific ball toward the back post. Akale was there to pounce on the low ball, and a tap home was all that was needed to send New Mexico through to the Western Conference Semifinal.
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