Andrew Kasper

County Booze Election Illegal

    The opinion of state Attorney General Gary King is worth more than the votes of 7,255 people in Rio Arriba County, at least...

Deadline Looming for Emergency Radio Transition

    Rio Arriba County public safety officials are scrambling to meet a federal deadline to update a County-wide radio system for emergency fire, medical...

Wanted: Your Trash Bill

    If all North Central Solid Waste Authority customers paid their trash bills, the Authority’s shaky financial health would be vastly improved. But that’s...

Copper Theft Sparks Blackout

    Copper thieves are believed to be behind electricity outages that affected nearly 10,000 Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative customers for about an hour Sunday...

Church Construction Following a Higher Power?

    The Rio Arriba County Planning and Zoning Commission halted a possibly illegal church construction project with a commandment of its own: thou shalt...

Museum May Open Late to Save Money

    If you called the Chimayó Museum over the past few weeks, you would have heard a discouraging answering machine message.     “The museum is...

911 Center Cuts Jobs, Service to Cope with Tight Budget

    Cuts to the Española 911 Center budget came in two waves last week, prompting plans to slash personnel and operations to meet the...

County Development Ordinance

    In the absence of the Rio Arriba County Planning and Zoning Department’s two highest ranking officials, the County’s Planning and Zoning Committee unanimously...

Ranchers Fight Industry in Road Dispute

    Rio Arriba County ranchers are pitted against oil and gas industry giants in a dispute over a road that provides access to hundreds...

Mr. Sanchez Goes to Washington?

    Rio Arriba County ranchers have embarked on a two-pronged attack to thwart new and existing reductions to the number of cattle grazing permits...

Whiskey of the West

    Set back in the bosque of the Rio Grande valley north of Española lives a man who makes his own booze.     He’s not...

Controversial Velarde Mine Now Under County Eye

    In a precedent-setting move, state Land Commissioner Ray Powell has given the Rio Arriba County Commission regulating powers over a controversial sand and...

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