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El Llano Man Lives Next to Mountain of Worries

    The foothill that once stood adjacent to the southern end of Abran Bustos’ El Llano property has become a wall of dirt.     Boulders...

Rio Arriba County Prisoners Face Retaliation over Letter to the Editor

    Inmates in the Tierra Amarilla Detention Center are alleging that jail guards violated their First Amendment rights and are forcing them to endure...

Trash Authority Eyes Reserve to Help Finance New Trucks

    North Central Solid Waste Authority officials are charting a plan for improving their truck fleet.     Using the entity’s cash reserves, they will invest...

Bird Die-off Has Birders Guessing

    Hundreds of thousands, perhaps more than a million migratory birds died across the Southwest and Rocky Mountains suddenly late in the week of...

Health Briefs

Run 4 Life From Press Release     El Centro Family Health will host its annual Run 4 Life, however this year’s event will be virtual and...

High Winds Sept. 8 Caused Outages

    The winds blew so fiercely the night of Sept. 8 that there were small power outages all the way from Abiquiú to Truchas...

Rio Arriba County Ends Census Fiestas with 30 Percent Participation

   Very little time is left to fill out the Census, and 70 percent of Rio Arriba County residents have not yet done so,...

Voter Infomration for General Election

Registering to Vote     The deadline to register to vote online or by mail is Oct. 6.     You can register to vote on the Secretary...

Santa Cruz Dam to Get Juiced Up

    The Santa Cruz Irrigation District is renovating its electrical infrastructure for greater reliability.     Since the 1920s, when the Santa Cruz Dam was built,...

Attorney Sues County over Jail Records Request

    Sheri Raphaelson sued Rio Arriba County Clerk Linda Padilla on Aug. 28 after the County allegedly failed to respond adequately to an Inspection...

Bear Sightings Increase As They Ready for Winter

    Lyle Lovett sings, “If you see a bear take him out to lunch with you. Even though your friends may stop and stare.”   ...

Historic Los Luceros Set for $1.1M Restoration

 Thanks to a federal grant, the staff at Los Luceros Historic Site will have the chance to increase the public’s access to previously closed...

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