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Española Budget Provides for Some Increases

$15.7 million total will raise salaries of all city workers by 3 percent, fund some expansion and insurance     After months of jockeying from various city departments for...

Land Grant Activists Remember 1967 Raid

    Activists and local leaders gathered on June 5 at the Los Luceros Historical Ranch in Alcalde to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the...

Borrowed $5 Million Would Go to Waste

    After being denied a federal grant due to income guidelines and after foregoing state assistance, Rio Arriba County commissioners have approved selling up...

Heroin Bust Nets Three Mexican Nationals

Española men had 7 ounces of narcotics, some hidden in a cereal box, said to be getting it ready for sale     Concealed at the bottom of...

Councilors Gun for City Employees, Target Lawyer

    The city clerk, interim city manager, director of public safety and the city’s two lawyers were all up for review at the May...

Elementary School Hamstrung by Fire Alarm

Children return to the San Juan school this week. Problems with the alarm should have been fixed by now. Firefighters are frustrated.     As children return to San Juan elementary, the school still...

City CouncilCommittee ApprovesNasal Narcan Use

    Española’s public safety committee unanimously passed (2-0) a resolution authorizing the administration of nasal Narcan by licensed health care professionals, qualified police and...

Look, Up in The Air, It’s . . . a Middle School Student

    Summertime. For many middle school students that means sleeping late, playing video games and maybe practicing for early fall sports.     But for 36...

Cuba Man Is ChargedWith Vehicular Homicide

    A Cuba man was arrested July 6 on charges of vehicular homicide and driving without a license after the SUV he was driving...

Two Women ChargedWith Child Abuse inCounty DWI Arrests

    An Española woman found herself behind bars on charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated and two charges of child abuse Aug. 4 after...

What’s The Chance of Being Struck by an Asteroid?

    Dear Science: What is the probability of being struck by an asteroid? — Buck R.     Dear Buck: One hundred percent: Technically, you are...

Co-op Balks at ExpensivePueblo Easement Payments

    Frustrated with unfruitful tribal easement negotiations, the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative board has backed away from making an initial $379,868 easement payment to...

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