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The last Española City Council meeting of Mayor John Ramon Vigil’s administration included the generic praise and speeches that are expected at those occasions. The remarks were punctuated by tears and candid comments by some of the councilors as they shared their feelings about each other and the last four years.

Mayor-elect Dennis Tim Salazar’s inauguration ceremony will be Wednesday (4/1).

Monday marked the beginning of Holy Week for Catholics, which means that pilgrims will soon begin their trek to El Santuario de Chimayó.

It took less than 10 minutes for the City of Española to get voted off of the North Central Solid Waste Board on March 19.

A North Carolina-based wireless infrastructure company is suing Rio Arriba County and the Board of County Commissioners for denying a Special Use Permit to build a communications tower in Ojo Caliente.

A Mexican national whose prosecution was taken over by federal prosecutors pleaded guilty to a immigration charge.

A Medanales man who allegedly burned down his father’s house, stole a firefighter’s truck after he responded to the fire, and then subsequently slashed a Tierra Amarilla jail guard with a pair of scissors, is not competent to stand trial.

A federal jury convicted a Dulce man of raping and molesting girl under age 12 and acquitted him on a charge of molesting a second girl under 12 following a multi-day trial in Albuquerque.

Prosecutors are asking a district judge to hold a Chimayó man without bail pending trial after New Mexico State Police officers charged him for fleeing from police in his car, following a domestic violence call.

The police blotter is published to give readers an abridged look at criminal activity in their community and neighborhood. It is simply an illustration of what local law enforcement, funded by taxpayers, must deal with daily throughout the Española Valley.

A district court judge ordered a Coyote man to be held without bail pending trial in a case where he allegedly backed into a police cruiser, pushed it 30 to 50 feet, then led police on a pursuit, “nearly” hitting a school bus as he allegedly fled.

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