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New City Community Services Director under Investigation for DUI Crash

    The city of Española may have filled one director position, but its list of vacancies isn’t getting any shorter.     The city hired Len...

Española Police Secretary Arrested for DUI after Allegedly Causing Two Accidents

    Española Police executive secretary Melissa Griego allegedly left the scene of an accident in Pojoaque and caused a second accident at the southernmost...

Convicted Killer To Be Deported

    A deal has allowed a Mexican immigrant who pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend to be extradited this week instead of serving further...

Correction

    The incorrect photograph was published under a story titled, “Man Implicated in Fatal Crash To Get 10 Months,” that appeared on page A1...

Police Blotter: Naked Neighbors Like To Show Off Naked Portraits

    The Española Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Department, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police and State Police responded to the following calls: Numchucks Brought To School Monday,...

Drilling Fight Pits County Against Lindrith

    Rio Arriba County’s draft of an ordinance that would regulate oil and gas drilling in Rio Arriba County was not going to be...

Santiago de Cuba

Changing the flag at the national cemetery.

County To Be Split into Two Drilling Management Areas

    The Rio Arriba County Gas and Oil Ordinance would split the County into two management areas: an “Energy Resource Development District” occupying the...

Academy Headmaster’s Girlfriend Given $15,000 Contract

    Rather than borrowing from the Española School District’s bulging rolodex of educational consultants when it came time to spend his school’s $50,000 school...

City Dumps Sewage Water into Rio Grande

By Sarah Welsh SUN Assistant News Editor     On six occasions during December, Española’s new $14 million wastewater plant discharged sewage-tainted water into the Rio Grande,...

Española Superintendent Makes Deals with Recruiting Company

    Five months before he is due to retire, Española School District Superintendent David Cockerham has started making arrangements — often on the clock...

Española Police Chief Hung Up on Cell Phones

    If Española Public Safety Chief Julian Gonzales gets his way, the city of Española may soon make it illegal to call or text...

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