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Sheriff Jails Solid Waste Head

Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies arrested the County’s trash boss, Gino Romero, May 22 at his office on Industrial Parkway Drive, for failure to...

Divided Council Fails to Pass City Budget

Española Mayor Alice Lucero will present a mostly flat budget to the state Department of Finance and Administration after the city Council failed to...

Police Step in to Thwart Shoplifters at Wal-Mart

Last December, after becoming Española’s director of public safety, Eric Garcia listed among his law enforcement priorities reducing the number of calls for police...

Mayor’s Walkout Highlighted Council Chasm

Española city councilors definitely aren’t switching sides after Mayor Alice Lucero walked out of a budget review meeting May 21.  The mayor’s walk-out is the...

Ohkay Owingeh Embarks on Building Boom

Ohkay Owingeh is experiencing a homecoming of sorts, while Tomasita Duran, executive director of the pueblo’s housing authority, has an added pep in her...

In The Bleachers, Home Team’s Shooting Up

The police blotter is published to give readers an abridged look at criminal activity in their community and neighborhood. It is simply an illustration...

City Spends $150KOn Trash Bins

   The City of Española will need to spend at least $150,000 of its Environmental Gross Receipts Tax revenue to replace trash cans for...

Store’s Spigot TwistedShut By City Inspectors

   After more than a decade in business, The Water Store on Riverside Drive was shut down May 13 by the city of Española.   ...

Juliet Cuts Off Monitoring BraceletIn Balcony Scene

The police blotter is published to give readers an abridged look at criminal activity in their community and neighborhood. It is simply an illustration...

Body Found in VelardeCould Be Missing Ex

   The Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a man whose badly decomposed body was discovered Saturday inside an abandoned...

San Juan Students AimFor Moon, Stars, Palm Trees

   Students from San Juan Elementary left May 17 for the trip of a lifetime which has become an annual tradition for the school.    ...

Newspaper Sues CountyFor Fire Chief Record

 The government of Rio Arriba County may inadvertently help to clarify the definition of “matters of opinion” in New Mexico’s public records law.     The...

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