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The NMAA's 1st Annual State Marching Band Competition took place this past weekend. Congratulations to all the winners and participants on a fantastic event. Rio Rancho High School officially the became the first ever Marching Band State Champion. Finishing in a close second place was Cleveland High School with Organ Mountain bring home to Southern New Mexico the 3rd place trophy.
The Championship event which took place at RRHS on Saturday, featured 28 teams from across the state-12 from Classes 1-4A and 16 from Class 5A. Each team went through a preliminary round early in the day. The top four teams from 1-4A and the top six from 5A moved on to the finals, which took place Saturday evening.
Rio Rancho, which had 168 performers, also took three of the four Caption Awards: High Guard, High Percussion and High General Effect. Organ Mountain took the last category, High Music.
Class 5A
1 – Rio Rancho – 78.720
2 – Cleveland – 78.700
3 – Organ Mountain – 77.525
4 – Clovis – 74.950
5 – La Cueva – 73.738
6 – Hobbs – 65.570
High Guard – Rio Rancho
High Percussion – Rio Rancho
High General Effect – Rio Rancho
High Music – Organ Mountain
Class 1A-4A
1 – Goddard – 65.875
2 – Lovington – 65.613
3 – Los Alamos – 65.613
4 – Portales – 62.225
High Guard – Goddard
High Percussion – Goddard
High General Effect – Los Alamos
High Music - Goddard
All results...

Sunny, with a high of 77 and low of 47 degrees. Sunny for the morning, clear for the afternoon and evening,
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The corruption which causes reputational damage is too widespread already and is going to overflow into the public eye soon enough. There is nothing anyone, or any group can do to stop it all from coming out. It is not limited to Chamber of Commerce or MainGate, IMO. Its tentacles are choking this city.
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