Mastodawn

That time when the painting of Lordsburg's first woman mayor - which was done by an Italian POW held at a former Japanese internment camp - was taken out of city hall and found at the home of a retired district judge and JUST READ IT.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/beloved-painting-of-lordsburgs-first-woman-mayor-returns-to-city-hall/3066181

#NewMexico #Lordsburg #art #history #localnews

Lordsburg, New Mexico: First woman mayor's WWII-era portrait returns to city hall

The historic portrait of Betty Lazar, Lordsburg's first woman mayor, returns to city hall in New Mexico after a brief disappearance. Painted by an Italian POW during WWII, the artwork's return follows a police investigation.

abqjournal

Algernon D'Ammassa Sep 4, 2025

Quite a story out of Lordsburg today.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_ac5257b2-73d3-404d-bead-f878d3af1ffd.html

#NewMexico #Lordsburg

Inmates, residents charged in alleged smuggling ring in Lordsburg

Ten people have been accused of operating a drug smuggling ring within the Hidalgo County Detention Center in Lordsburg. District Attorney Norman Wheeler announced the charges Wednesday and said the

Albuquerque Journal

Algernon D'Ammassa Jul 31, 2025

Lordsburg is the third municipality taking over management of local senior centers from Hidalgo Medical Services.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_b3fb8701-e98a-4723-8654-76c0272b31d8.html

#NewMexico #Lordsburg #seniors #HMS #HidalgoMedicalServices

Lordsburg to take over senior center from Hidalgo Medical Services

The city of Lordsburg will assume operations of the community's senior center in August, once Hidalgo Medical Services' contract expires, the Non-Metro Area Agency on Aging announced this week.

Albuquerque Journal

Dorothea Lange Jan 12, 2025

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

#Lordsburg #NewMexico #Claremore #Oklahoma #Calfornia #Arizona #Roswell #ShafterCalifornia #theDustBowl #theUnitedStates #California #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange