Today's News

Look up in the sky! Its a bird! Its a plane! No, its one of more than 20 rockets launched by members of the Pion Rocket Club during an early morning assembly at the school. Students at the school participated in the countdown for each launch, which featured rockets with names such as Big Bertha, Big Daddy and Screaming Eagle.

There was also a three-stage rocket, a rocket that measured more than 5 feet and one less than 5 inches tall.

Elvira Charley, 32, shot three of her six children dead on New Year’s Day 2002. The Navajo woman drank alcohol throughout the previous day and night, and had intended to kill herself but instead turned the rifle on her 9-, 10- and 11-year olds. They were lying in bed inside her trailer on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

“She had three younger kids she did not shoot,” said Assistant Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade during the FBI Citizens’ Academy April 22. “She received six consecutive life sentences.”

Earth Day weekend activities culminated in a benefit dinner for the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) Sunday evening at Central Avenue Grill. The well-attended party was filled with sponsors and supporters.

Proceeds from corporate table sponsors and a silent and live auction conducted by Auctioneer Jill Cook, generated some $12,000 for the nature center.

Zabel – Carroll W. Zabel, 87, died at his home in Boulder, Colo., Friday, April 18, 2008. He was born in Deer Creek, Minn., the son of Edward Zabel and Ethel Field Zabel. Carroll attended Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis., where he met Grace Elizabeth Kamerling, whom he married in1943. Carroll earned a Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During World War II, he worked at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, where he and his colleagues made fundamental contributions to the design and deployment of microwave radar systems.