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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...

Councilor Had Secret Link to Engineering Firm

1/28/10     Española Acting City Manager Veronica Albin is not the only city official with close ties to Molzen-Corbin and Associates, the city’s former on-call...

Chamber of Commerce hires new director

1/28/10     The Española Valley Chamber of Commerce has hired a new executive director to replace Española Mayor Pro Tem Alice Lucero, who resigned to...

Pueblo Could Get Land as Part of Deal

1/28/10     The state may hand over two tracts of public land in Arroyo Seco to Santa Clara Pueblo as part of a controversial land...

Porn Probe Targets Teacher

4/10/08     A Mesa Vista School District English teacher may lose his teaching license for allegedly viewing pornography on classroom computers while employed last year...

City Manager Walks Thin Line of Nepotism

    Two recent hires at the city of Española have been a boon to the family of Acting City Manager Veronica Albin.     The city...

Dog Pack Routinely Targets Children’s Backpacks

  1/21/10  Española Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police and State Police responded to the following calls: Drunk and Angry Monday, Jan....

City Trades Furloughs for Cops

    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...

Ex-Sheriff Enters Race for Sheriff

1/21/10     Yet another candidate has entered an already-crowded race for the Rio Arriba County sheriff’s seat.     Nelson Cordova, 69, of La Mesilla, announced his...

City Sued by Detained Student

1/21/10     A former Española Valley High School student whom police forcibly took out of school for questioning about a case in which he wasn’t...

Mayor Hopeful Pushes City To Do Business with Political Backers

    At the city of Española, “Buy Local” has apparently also been taken to mean “Buy Political.”     In a string of e-mails directed at...

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