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  • Kirtland boy throws first pitch at Cubs game

    Julian Leonard may look like a normal toddler, but the little guy recently had an experience most people never do: He threw out a ceremonial first pitch at a Chicago Cubs game.He's also been battling cancer for almost his entire life.Two-and-a-half-year-old Julian is the youngest child of Jessica

  • Air Force, NMED to host public information meeting Nov. 17

    The Air Force and the New Mexico Environment Department will host a public information meeting Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the African American Performing Arts Center to provide an update on the Kirtland Air Force Base Bulk Fuels Facility leak cleanup activities.The meeting runs from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Prior

  • Military support group serves local VA patients

    An organization called Solders' Angels is ramping up efforts to help veterans at the Raymond G. Murphy Veterans Administration Medical Center and is seeking local volunteers tto participate.Vicki Sarracino, Soldiers' Angels vice president of field operations, said they are bringing in a

  • USAFA's band Blue Steel visits New Mexico

    "Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon. "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten.The U.S. Air Force Academy Blue Steel band played those songs and a few more Friday outside the Student Union Building at the University of New Mexico. The performance, like all of the band's shows, was free and open to the

  • Local fire tanker heads 'Down Under'

    An air fire tanker company based at the Kirtland/Sunport airfield has deployed one of its planes to Australia to fight fires.10 Tanker Air Carrier's "910" jumbo DC-10 began service from a Royal Australian Air Force base in Richmond, New South Wales, Oct. 1, according to the company's president, Rick

  • Tap into your empathy, says suicide prevention program manager

    On the heels of September's suicide prevention awareness month, mental health professionals at Kirtland are working hard to ensure base members continue to be vigilant in looking out for the well-being of their coworkers.Capt. Joye Henrie, installation suicide prevention program manager, said

  • Kirtland Spouses' Club gears up for annual food drive

    The Kirtland Spouses' Club is preparing for a November food drive to benefit the food pantry at the base's Airman and Family Readiness Center.The food drive will run Nov. 1-24. Dinah Dziolek, member-at-large for the KSC and wife of 58th Special Operations Wing Chaplain Capt. David Dziolek, said the