LAS CRUCES -- Hand tools, harvest equipment, historical photos and oral biographies are just a few items the Chile Pepper Institute is looking for to create chile exhibits at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces.

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LAS CRUCES -- New Mexicans can experience traditions of the Middle East through dance, music and food at the International Shake and Bake Dance Festival July 29-Aug. 4, at the Wyndham Hotel in Albuquerque.

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LAS CRUCES -- New Mexico State University's agricultural communications department will hold auditions for parts in a video shoot about agricultural careers at 9 a.m. August 6, in the Social Living Center of Gerald Thomas Hall.

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LAS CRUCES -- Top 4-H members from across New Mexico received awards and scholarships at a ceremony July 16, following four days of State 4-H Conference and competition at New Mexico State University.

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LAS CRUCES -- Centuries-old Indian dances will highlight the annual San Lorenzo Feast Day at Acoma Pueblo's Acomita Village on August 10.

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LAS CRUCES -- In June and July, southern New Mexico satisfies about 60 percent of the nation's appetite for fresh market onions.

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LAS CRUCES � Festival-goers who want to do something batty can witness one of nature's most spectacular sights at the Bat Flight Breakfast Aug. 13 at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

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LAS CRUCES -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has asked New Mexico agencies and tribal councils to help evaluate the overall health of the state's 83 major watersheds.

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LAS CRUCES -- Carol Sutherland began work in June as a part- time entomologist for New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service.

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LAS CRUCES � Rolston St. Hilaire joined the NMSU faculty in July as an assistant professor of horticulture. He will teach courses about ornamental plants and landscape design and conduct research on drought tolerance and water use in ornamental plants.

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LAS CRUCES -- From planting to preserves, every aspect of raspberry and blackberry production and marketing will be covered during a workshop and farm tour Aug. 21 near Lincoln.

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LAS CRUCES -- As New Mexicans make plans for fall and winter vacations, free or low-cost vacation offers that sound too good to be true probably are. A New Mexico State University consumer education specialist warns that the Federal Trade Commission reports that unsuspecting consumers regularly fall for such offers.

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LAS CRUCES -- Reviewing financial situations can help couples avoid potential conflicts as they plan for marriage, said a New Mexico State University consumer education specialist.

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LAS CRUCES -- Doing a good job of managing money depends as much on what a family decides not to buy as on what is actually purchased.

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LAS CRUCES -- In these days of a healthy national economy, not all is as rosy as it might be, said a New Mexico State University consumer education specialist.

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LAS CRUCES � Red imported fire ants can invade yards, gardens, fields and even crawl inside homes. But there are ways to help control them.

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LAS CRUCES -- Many bugs that can harm trees and shrubs are on the move during the last months of summer, said a New Mexico State University entomologist.

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It's like the Olympic trials, but the game is science.

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LAS CRUCES -- Kim Alspach was selected recently as the recipient of the Returning Homemaker Scholarship by the Doña Ana County Extension Clubs Council.

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LAS CRUCES � Just as a season of hard work begins to pay off with a delicious pepper harvest, gardeners may notice a discolored lesion near the blossom end of some fruit. Although the ugly sight is not a devastating disease, blossom-end rot can be troublesome.

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LAS CRUCES � It's no secret that New Mexico is facing a drought. Weather statistics and predictions abound in newspapers, television broadcasts and radio programs. Now there's one more place New Mexicans can go for up-to-date status reports on the state's situation: the World Wide Web.

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LAS CRUCES -- Rena Larrañaga, assistant editor with New Mexico State University's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences , began work in a new Albuquerque location this month. She is the first specialist in recent history from the college's agricultural communications department to be located outside Las Cruces.

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LAS CRUCES -- Pecos Valley research about dairy heifers, cotton pests, a saltcedar project tour and variety trials for alfalfa, cotton and chile will highlight an Aug. 20 field day.

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LAS CRUCES -- Bean and pea plants have some rangeland relatives that cause problems for New Mexico's ranchers. About 75 different species of white-, purple- and blue-flowered locoweeds grow in the state, fewer than 20 of which are poisonous to livestock. To help tell them apart, New Mexico State University researchers have compiled a field guide to common locoweeds.

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LAS CRUCES � Home gardeners and agricultural producers will see the latest research on xeriscaping, plant diseases, livestock management, wildlife control and bosque reclamation Aug. 19 in Los Lunas.

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J. Derald Morgan, dean of New Mexico State University's College of Engineering since 1985, has announced he will step down as dean of the college effective Jan. 1, 1999.

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New freshman enrollment at New Mexico State University is up more than 23 percent from last fall, NMSU President William B. Conroy told the university's Board of Regents today.

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LAS CRUCES - New Mexico State University will play a key role in helping New Mexicans make the transition from welfare to work, beginning in September.

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LAS CRUCES -- Linda Wells began work Aug. 3 as the home economist for New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service in San Juan County.

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LAS CRUCES � A historical celebration to mark the beginning of harvest will take place on San Estevan Feast Day Sept. 2 at the Acoma Pueblo, east of Grants.

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