Whitney Jones

Hospital, Neighbors Compromise on Landing Pad

    The city of Española’s Planning and Zoning Commission approved Española Hospital’s expansion plans after hospital administrators met with neighbors to reach a compromise...

Wide Load Rules OK’d

    Anyone moving a mobile home on the streets of Española will now have to get a permit from the city first under an...

Redistricting 2011

    Remember playing with an Etch A Sketch when you were little?     Some state legislators are about to embark on an electoral version of...

Early Meeting Illegal

    The Española City Council may have violated the state Open Meetings Act during a regularly scheduled meeting May 24 and compromised the legally...

A Judge’s Personal Twist on ‘Buy Local’

    Since May 2010, Rio Arriba County has spent more than $40,000 on office supplies from New Mexico Office Products, the Española business owned...

No Jail Time in City Theft

    Two years after an embezzlement scandal rattled the city of Española, three ex-police officers walked away scot-free from criminal charges and two former...

Blue Buses Came From Out of State

    Since 2007 the North Central Regional Transit District has purchased buses and vans worth more than $1.3 million, the majority of which —...

Signs of Summer: Fire, Water Restrictions Implemented

    A city-wide fire ban has been implemented to prevent a fire from taking off in the Española Valley.     Mayor Alice Lucero and acting...

Life Expectancy for City Finance Directors: 6 Months

    In the past five years, the city of Española has had nine different people overseeing its finances, according to city records.     The era...

Lots of Talk, But Median Remains

    Eight months after a median at the Riverside Drive and Fairview Lane intersection was extended in front of Bank of America without the...

Redistricting 2011

    The Congressional and state Public Regulation Commission districts that fall within Rio Arriba County’s borders gained population between 2000 and 2010. That means...

Under New Leader, RTD Approves Alternate Funding Formula

    In the wake of former executive director Josette Lucero’s early retirement from the North Central Regional Transit District last month, the District’s Board...

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