Northern Briefs

State Conducts Health Survey

From a press release 1/8/09     The state Health Department plans to call New Mexicans starting in January to survey them about their health behaviors for...

School Board Addresses Overtime Issue

SUN Staff Report 1/1/09     The Española School Board has begun reviewing a set of new District policies that address additional pay for salaried employees.     The...

Chama Supermarket Reopens

12/25/08     Ten months after heavy snows collapsed the roof of the only grocery store in Chama, Lowe’s Chama Valley Supermarket reopened Dec. 17 amid...

Fatal Crash Claims Student

1/1/09     A New Mexico State University student who was home for the Christmas holiday was killed in a car accident on his 21st birthday,...

Crunch Time for Spelling Bee Contestants

1/1/09     While their classmates spend the last days of holiday break on basketball and video games, this year’s participants in the 2009 Rio Arriba...

Española Board Works To Sort Priorities

12/25/08     The list of projects educational institutions throughout Northern New Mexico will ask the state legislature to fund in 2009 are shrinking before they...

Eagle Watch Set for Saturday

From a press release 1/1/09     The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Abiquiú Lake will host its third annual Midwinter Eagle Watch Saturday, from 9...

PRC Investigates Tri-State/Jemez over Outages

12/25/08     The state Public Regulation Commission is investigating the causes of repeated power outages that affected 25,000 Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative consumers in Rio...

Inmate Hangs Himself Day After Christmas

1/1/09     A Rio Arriba County Jail inmate who had been incarcerated for allegedly selling his family’s Christmas presents hung himself in jail the day...

Rio Chama Man Gets Lab Scholarship

From a press release 12/25/08     A Rio Chama man has been awarded the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s computer science scholarship.     Randy D. Branch will be...

Pojoaque Candidate Forum

1/15/09     The Pojoaque Elementary Parent and Teacher Association has scheduled a forum for school board candidates Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. at the Pojoaque...

Española Native Honored by NMSU

From a press release 12/25/08     Andrew Salazar received the New Mexico State University 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award.     The 1955 Española High School and 1963 University...

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