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Internet-Provider War Sends Governments Scrambling

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2/19/09     Local governments are scrambling to switch Internet providers before Qwest cuts services to three smaller telecommunications companies.     Qwest told the state Public Regulation...

State’s Supercomputer Plans Slowed Down by Valley’s Slow Connection

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2/26/09     State officials touting a state-of-the-art supercomputer in Albuquerque — the world’s 12th fastest — promise it will bring new research capabilities to Northern...

Contractor’s Death Sets Off Feud

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1/22/09     An Española School District bus contractor’s marriage to an Española lawyer less than a month before his death set off a bizarre dispute...

Espanola Actor Hobnobs with Billy Bob Thornton

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3/12/09     On a scorching summer day two years ago, two strangers rode into a Comanche camp a few miles from the Abiquiú Dam. Nervous...

School Pork Requests Too High

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1/15/09     The Española School Board met Jan. 7 to pick one or two projects it would ask legislators to fund this year through capital...

Union wants in on New Super. Hiring

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1/1/09      The Española School Board hasn’t announced who will sit on the selection committee for the District’s next superintendent, but the District’s employee union...

Española Board Works To Sort Priorities

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12/25/08     The list of projects educational institutions throughout Northern New Mexico will ask the state legislature to fund in 2009 are shrinking before they...

Academy To Fight Closure

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12/25/08     The Española Military Academy’s Governing Board decided in an emotionally-charged meeting Dec. 17 to appeal a state Public Education Commission ruling that could...

Candidates Show Union Love

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1/8/09     For two unopposed candidates set to coast into their respective seats on the Española School Board Feb. 3, Joe “Coco” Archuleta and Board...

DUI Suspect Loses Bus Contract With Schools

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12/25/08     Crashing an Española School District-owned bus while allegedly drunk has cost bus contractor Michael Valdez his contract with the District.     The Española School...

Crunch Time for Spelling Bee Contestants

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1/1/09     While their classmates spend the last days of holiday break on basketball and video games, this year’s participants in the 2009 Rio Arriba...

Rio Arriba Boasts Three National Spelling Bee Qualifiers

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1/8/09     Attending his granddaughter’s school-wide spelling bee at McCurdy School brought back memories for Russ Shinn.     More than 50 years ago, Shinn stood on...
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