Jose de Wit

‘Over My Dead Body’

4/10/08     The rural bookmobile made one of its last visits to the Abiquiú Post Office the afternoon of April 2. The two staff librarians...

Red Cross Seeks Donations from County Residents

4/3/08     Española firefighters stood outside Wal-Mart the morning of March 29, a bright red fire engine to their left, two empty firemen's boots on...

Grandmothers’ Duties Extend to Local Schools

4/10/08     Five minutes before the bell rang for recess at Española Elementary, Stephanie Smith stood before a classroom of antsy third-graders, a stack of...

Mayor Pushed Out of Federal Job over Conflicts

1/28/10     The Federal Highway Administration investigated conflicts of interest involving Joseph Maestas’s 2006 election as Española mayor before forcing him to resign, according to...

Council Trades Furloughs for Cops

1/28/10     The Española City Council sacrificed the hope of filling two of several police officer vacancies in a push to avoid employee furloughs.     A $439,334...

Man Shot By Police Indicted on Eight Charges

1/28/10     A Rio Arriba County grand jury indicted Jan. 14 an Española man whom police shot and injured Dec. 28 as he allegedly fled...

Chlorine Leak Forces Evacuation

3/27/08     Española Military Academy students and staff were evacuated Monday at about 4 p.m. from the National Guard Armory after a cylinder of compressed...

Northern Gets $1.2 Million to Build New Tech Building

4/3/08     Northern New Mexico College received $1.2 million in federal funds from the Economic Development Administration March 28 to construct a new automotive technology...

Aspiring Eagle Scout Donates Computers to Poor

4/10/08     McCurdy High School junior Francisco Vigil has always been interested in technology. He started playing with Legos as a child, then moved on...

Texas Minister Hired to Head McCurdy

4/3/08     McCurdy School has hired a new superintendent to replace Fred Pomeroy, who has been McCurdy's superintendent the past two years and will retire...

Rising Electricity Costs Force Chama to Request Emergency Funds

4/3/08     Citing unforeseen expenditures due to economic inflation and a winter colder than usual, the Chama School District has applied for half a million...

Exams Test Administrators’ Nerves

3/27/08     Another year of standardized testing was completed last week, and Rio Arriba County public school students, teachers and administrators alike expressed mixed feelings...

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