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How Would Annexation Affect Your Property Taxes?

    No one is quite sure if the city of Española’s Santa Fe County residents and businesses would see their property taxes rise or...

Lab Foundation Opens New Community Center in Valley

    Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation donors had the chance to see what $1.2 of donations can do.         The foundation hosted a ribbon...

Incestuous Molestation Results in Three-Year Sentence

    A Coyote man who pleaded guilty to molesting his niece was sentenced to three years in prison plus time served Aug. 22 in...

Special Ed Lawsuits Tumbled During Departing Director’s Tenure

Jose de Wit SUN Staff Writer     The Española School District is seeking a replacement for the administrator it hired in 2006 to clean up its...

Pet Food Pantry Aids Families

    As of Aug. 16, the Española Valley Humane Society is offering free dog and cat food to families in need. The “Helping Paws”...

Bribe Offer Fails to Get ‘shorty’ Off Hook

    Ten dollars wasn’t enough hush money Aug. 23  to keep Rio Arriba County Jail guards Guillermo Diaz and Jose Leyba from turning in...

Highway Contractor Chosen

    The state Highway Department has selected a contractor for the next phase of the Highway 84/285 project while it is still in the...

Expanding Wildfire Poses No Threat

    Smoke from a fire burning in the Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest is visible from Coyote to the Abiquiú...

Espanola Housing Flunks ’08 Audit

    If it were a test, the Española Public Housing Authority would have done worse than just an “F” — it would have scored...

Drilling Legal Bill $100,000 And Counting

    Rio Arriba County has paid its attorneys more than $100,000 so far in its fight against oil and gas drilling near Tierra Amarilla,...

Father Punches Son

    A Juvenile Probation Officer’s husband has been charged with battery on a household member for allegedly punching his son in the Wal-Mart parking...

2008 Rio Arriba County Fair Results

    The following are the livestock results of the 2008 Rio Arriba County Fair, held Aug. 2 to 3 at the Rural Events Center...

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