Kristin McFarland

City Cuts FY 2010 Budget Another $360K

    The Española City Council approved July 28 a budget for fiscal year 2011 that will leave three police positions vacant and carries the...

What Raid?: New Española Manager Starts Job Three Days after Police Raid His House

    Against the recommendation of several Española city councilors, City Manager James Lujan started work Monday just three days after the Santa Fe County...

Sacred Heart Pastor To Be Missed

    Even after 50 years in New Mexico, Father Augustine John Moore still has a Southern accent.     Moore, 76, newly retired pastor of the...

Work Continues on Industrial Park Road

    The Industrial Park Road construction project will not be completed until the end of the summer with a price tag at least $60,000...

Restoring the Pueblo

    When Tomasita Duran, director of the Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority, was told that a complete rehabilitation of housing on the Pueblo’s 400-year-old plazas...

Critic Threatens Lawsuit Over Arrest

7/8/10     Richard Beaudoin, owner of Mountain Air Cleaners and a member of the Española Planning and Zoning Commission, is threatening to sue the city.    ...

City Tosses Trash Authority Small Bone

7/8/10     Aside from a one-time payment of $50,000, the city of Española will not be helping the North Central Solid Waste Authority secure loans...

Law Firm Hired to Resolve City Code Issues

7/1/10     The city has signed a $12,000 contract with a Santa Fe law firm to revise the city of Española’s Development Code.     Revisions will...

State Investigates Sena Insurance

7/1/10     The state Public Regulation Commission’s Insurance Division is conducting an investigation into the owner of the recently closed Robert Sena Insurance Agency in...

¡Que Viva La Fiesta!

Newly crowned Española Fiesta Reina Bridget Archuleta, Don Juan de Oñate Leo Jaramillo and Cristobal Tomas Ortega pose for the cameras after the dubbing...

Española Hires Fraud Suspect as City Manager

    Española Mayor Alice Lucero appointed James Lujan, a former Santa Fe County public works director under investigation for fraud in his department, as...

City Struggles with Audits, Old Debt, Surprise Bills

7/1/10     The city of Española has received state approval for its preliminary fiscal year 2011 budget and has submitted a corrective action plan to...

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