Roswell’s annual Chile Cheese Festival brought residents and visitors downtown for fresh-roasted green chile, local vendors, live performances and an entertaining ice cream-eating contest. Held outside the Chaves County Courthouse, the Sept. 24 celebration highlighted local flavor and community traditions, with festivalgoers enjoying music, dancing and handmade ristras from Graves Farm and Garden.
The possibility of excessive rainfall prompted the National Weather Service Sunday to issue a flood watch for Chaves and Eastern Lincoln counties, as well as Harding, Union, Eastern San Miguel, Quay, Curry, Roosevelt and De Baca counties. The flood watch will remain in effect from 6 p.m. Monday until 6 a.m. Wednesday.
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In between stalls selling orange chicken and tacos, a glowing white sign invites shoppers to learn about a piece of cloth that bears the image of a man that some believe to be Jesus Christ.
Significant rainfall was reported Thursday began in Roswell between 6 and 8 p.m., resumed at midnight and continued until at least 5:28 a.m., Friday, Anderson added.
As of noon Thursday, Roswell had received between 1.75 and 2.25 inches. Parts of Chaves County got 1.25 to 2.9 inches, Snodgrass said. The heaviest rain fell in Roswell between 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and about 3:30 a.m. Thursday.