Bryant Furlow

County Pays Lawyers $295,000 in 2008

    Rio Arriba County paid private attorney Ted Trujillo’s law firm $276,580 in 2008 under a missing contract.     Trujillo’s fees represented the majority of...

Senator Martinez Takes Over Rio Arriba Dems from His Wife

    Just two weeks after pledging to support Rio Arriba County Democratic Party Chairwoman Theresa Martinez if she stood for reelection, Sen. Richard Martinez...

State Not Doing Any Work on Rio Arriba Drilling Regulations

    Despite Governor Richardson’s announcement last year that he had ordered the state Oil Conservation Division to immediately prepare new rules for oil and...

Fire Season Predictions

    Higher than average temperatures and little precipitation could create a bad year for wildfires for most of New Mexico from May through July,...

Preserving a Way of Life

    Early the morning of March 21, a line of 34 parciantes of the Acequia de la Cañada Ancha made their way down a...

Bovine TB Designation Lifted in Rio Arriba

    Rio Arriba County and most other New Mexico counties will be re-accredited as bovine tuberculosis free, the federal Agriculture Department announced Monday.        ...

Fire Burns 13 Acres along the Rio Chama

    A brush fire that began Sunday scorched 13 acres of bosque along the Rio Chama and adjacent fields between Tierra Azul and Medanales,...

Enhanced 911 Useless to Rio Arriba Ambulances Which Lack GPS

    In Rio Arriba County, garbage trucks are equipped with global positioning satellites (GPS) but ambulances are not.     That renders the Rio Arriba County/Española...

Semi-Truck Explodes near Ojo Caliente

    A semi-trailer truck transporting 50 bales of hay burned on Highway 285 north of Ojo Caliente for approximately an hour March 11 before...

High Court Rules Against Cook in Acequias’ Case

    The state Supreme Court refused Jan. 12 to hear Española businessman Richard Cook’s appeal of a decision that a state law allowing acequia...

County Clerks Illegally Selected Members for Voter Purge Board

    Rio Arriba County did not follow state law last month when it selected a Board of Registration to purge inactive voters, Secretary of...

Paramedics Delayed the First Day of Ambulance Cut

    On the first day of the Española Hospital’s new cost-saving policy of operating only two ambulances, paramedics had to wait 12 minutes before...

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