Northern Briefs

Superintendent Silent on Why He Fired Long-Time Director

7/17/08     Angela Ortiz's long career as an administrator with the Mesa Vista School District has come to an end.     Superintendent Robert Archuleta informed Ortiz...

Blue Sky Wins Bid for Ojo Sarco Station

SUN Staff Report 7/24/08 Plans call for the Ojo Sarco Volunteer Fire Department to move out of a former one-room schoolhouse and into a three-bay, 3,200-square-foot...

Governor Steps Into Drilling Fight

7/24/08     Gov. Bill Richardson has asked for special rules to be written to regulate oil and gas development in Rio Arriba County in light...

Error To Keep Judge Candidate

7/24/08     A single word may cost the Republican Party's candidate for Rio Arriba County Magistrate Court judge the opportunity to appear on the Nov....

Eager Lobos Try Out Maes’ Spread Offense

7/24/08     During a football team’s summer workouts, players aren’t trying to hit hard and knock their opponents around. That will come later, when practice...

Sundevils Overwhelm Trojans In Taos Tournament

12/10/09     Two traditional Rio Arriba County high school basketball powers met Dec. 3 at the Taos Invitational, but there would be no re-enactment of...

Popping Tires Save Woman

7/17/08     Luann Hernandez was awakened the morning of July 11 by a loud "bang."     "I woke up to a 'pop,'" she said. "The room...

Fouls Cripple North All-Stars

7/24/08     Pojoaque High School graduate Ryan Gonzalez had to watch his final high school game from the bench after he fouled out of the...

Teachers Hit Books During Summer ‘Break’

7/24/08     As students spent their vacation relaxing this summer, about 100 Española School District teachers hit the books.     That many teachers — roughly a...

Northern’s Biology Program Receives $598,000

From a press release 7/24/08     Northern New Mexico College has received a $598,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue a scholarship program for...

Case Against Deputy Dismissed

7/24/08     Battery charges filed against Rio Arriba County Sheriff's deputy Adam Archuleta last fall that the District Attorney's office refused to prosecute were dropped...

Los Pinos

    The village of Los Pinos can hardly even be called that. It’s accessible only by a nondescript road in Antonito, Colo., and by...

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