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State Auditor ChidesCity on Audit Results

  State Auditor Hector Balderas and independent auditing firm Harshwal and Company had some harsh words when it came to the city of Española’s...

New Code Enforcement OfficerDoing A Lot of Leg Work

   New Española code enforcement officer Michael Marquez does a great deal of leg work.     He drove by a dilapidated residence Sept. 19 at...

Train Museum off Track

What started as a concrete plan by former Mayor Joseph Maestas to build a railroad museum is now one of Mayor Alice Lucero’s modest...

Former Mayor Breaks Ground Sans City Permit

While former Mayor Richard Lucero spent much of the past four decades legislating Española laws, it now appears he’s trying to skirt them in...

Feds Give Sewer Plant Good Grade

The City of Española has been associated with many waste-related phrases in the past: wasteful spending, wasted drivers and wasted opportunities, to name a...

Blue Heron Plans Move to Old Rio Grande Cafe

The building that formerly housed the Rio Grande Cafe, facing the Misión y Convento on the Old Los Alamos Highway, may finally get its...

Past City ManagerPleads GuiltyTo Nine Felonies

The former embattled Española city manager James Lujan pleaded guilty to eight felony counts of conspiracy to commit fraud and a single count of...

Authority Raises City Trash Collection Rates

The North Central Solid Waste Authority board of directors passed a $1.50 monthly trash rate increase for Española residents after the manager of the...

City Water Department Lean

When a water line started leaking on East Chamisa Street Aug. 22, the city of Espanola sent utility service workers Derek Romero, Juanito Sandoval...

Elusive New Library Still Getting Lip Service

Plans to move the Española Public Library into the C.L. Hunter Building are seemingly abandoned and city funding for a new city library is...

Whose Water Pipes Are They? City Seeks Answers

Debate at the Aug. 6 Española Public Works Committee meeting grew contentious over a resolution to replace a water line on property owned on...

Narrow Street’s Residents Suspicious of City Fix

The residents of Pacheco Lane are frustrated with the city, and in some cases, with each other. Many of those frustrations came to a head...

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