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Are Your Employees Healthy?

SUN Staff Report 3/19/09     Northern New Mexico College will host a conference Friday on work place health.     The “Work-site Wellness: An Investment in Health” conference...

City Threatens To Withhold Funds for New Trash Station

4/2/09     Rio Arriba County and the North Central Solid Waste Authority are rushing to construct a new, permanent garbage station on County-owned land in...

What’s the Big Deal? Code Puts Clamp on Council Meddling

4/2/09     The Española City Council passed March 24 by a single vote a controversial code of conduct for councilors that had split the Council...

Money Woes Dominate Pilgrims’ Thoughts

4/9/09     Most of the thousands of pilgrims who flood the Santuario de Chimayó every year on Good Friday each dedicate their effort to a...

El Rito Drug Supply Arrested

4/2/09     State Police arrested a suspected drug dealer March 27 who had wired about $10,000 to Mexico.     Police targeted Maria del Rosario Hernandez-Perez, 34,...

County Gets ‘Green’ Energy Funds

4/9/09     New Mexico will receive $20 million of $3.2 billion in federal stimulus funding for energy efficiency, according to the federal Energy Department.     Rio...

McCurdy is Hiring, Again

4/2/09     For the fifth time in five years, McCurdy School is looking for a new girls basketball coach.     Outgoing head coach Johnny Abeyta said...

Habitat Funds Available

From a press release 3/26/09     The deadline to apply for Fiscal Year 2009 funding under the Environmental Quality and the Wildlife Habitat incentive programs is...

It’s Up to Us: Managers Learn Workplace Wellness Tips

4/2/09     Businesses can save thousands of dollars in employee health costs by implementing work-place wellness programs.     That was the message spread by New Mexico...

Soup Kitchen To Hold Benefit April 25

From a press release 4/2/09     Contestants are being sought for the third annual Chili Cook-Off to benefit San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen in Española.    ...

Illegal Dump Pops up Near Legal One

3/19/09     Illegal septic, oil and trash dumping in an arroyo behind the Rural Events Center in Abiquiú may be polluting the Rio Chama.     The...

Prescribed Burns Planned for Carson

From a press release 3/19/09     Prescribed burns are being conducted in the western section of the Carson National Forest over the next couple of months.    ...

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