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School Employees Lack Proper Licenses Across Rio Arriba

    Nearly 20 teachers and administrators working in Rio Arriba County school districts are teaching subjects they are not licensed to teach or working...

Chama Lowe’s Overcharges Customers on Tax

    Attorney Beverly Graham is contemplating filing a lawsuit against Lowe’s Chama Valley Supermarket for overcharging customers on sales tax from its reopening Dec....

Rio Arriba Politicos Back Richardson

    Rio Arriba County Democrats are sticking by Gov. Bill Richardson, despite the weekend news that he is withdrawing as Commerce Secretary nominee because...

Last of Former City Director Lawsuits Dismissed

    Española Mayor Joseph Maestas’ administration can finally stop fighting the lawsuits it spurred when it fired four directors at its first meeting in...

Disaster Declared in Rio Arriba after Snowstorm

    The Rio Arriba County Commission issued a disaster declaration on Dec. 27 after heavy snows hit Chama and much of the rest of...

Inmate Hangs Himself Day after Christmas

    A Rio Arriba County Jail inmate who had been incarcerated for allegedly selling his family’s Christmas presents hung himself in jail the day...

PRC Investigates Jemez Co-op and Tri-State over Power Outages

    The state Public Regulation Commission is investigating the causes of repeated power outages that affected 25,000 Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative consumers in Rio...

Agencies Line Up for Obama Aid

    With President-elect Barack Obama proposing hundreds of billions of dollars in aid for infrastructure projects across the country, government entities in Rio Arriba...

Vigil Drops Out of Only Contested Española School Board Race

    The race for the two available seats on the Española School Board suddenly got a lot less exciting.     Former Española Housing Authority director...

21-Year-Old Student Killed in Crash While on Holiday Leave

    A New Mexico State University student who was home for the Christmas holiday was killed in a car accident on his 21st birthday,...

Los Cariños’ Money Pit

    Los Cariños Charter School has poured almost $200,000 in taxpayer dollars into its unused property in Santa Cruz and continues to pay its...

Chama Mayor Draws Fire for Helping Daughter

    Public housing residents watched in disbelief Dec. 28 as a village of Chama backhoe cleared the driveway of Mayor Archie Vigil’s daughter’s home...

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