Letters To Editor

Need Food Supplement Program

Editor:     Do you realize that if the U.S. Congress cuts funding to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) New Mexico will lose...

Congressman Should Apologize

   I just turned on the television and was proud to see a new Mexico congressman standing on the floor of the United States...

Shame on Commissioners

    Shame on our three Rio Arriba County commissioners for playing politics by giving selective raises and approving county employees to attend partisan functions...

4H Club Cleans A Mile of SR554

   The Abiquiú Hillbillies 4H Club gathered trash Sunday along a 1-mile stretch of State Road 554, which they adopted. The Club cleaned from...

Still A Few Honest Folks

   I wish to express my sincere thanks to a wonderful employee of Walmart. His name is Jose Sanchez, a cart-pusher, who is not...

Disable Can’t Haul Poly Carts

    The North Central Solid Waste Authority’s recent decision to require each account-holder to have a poly cart, at a cost of $50, and...

Hope Message Received

Editor:     We wish to express our gratitude to all the sponsors and supporters of the Walk Against Drugs in Española Sept. 28. Our daughter,...

Trash Catch 22

  “Catch 22.”  I read it in my wild and wooly youth. It was an army rule that said, basically, that you can apply...

Clever County Men

    I am so glad that we live in Rio Arriba Country where we have such intelligent, creative, clever, imaginative, helpful men on the...

For a Few Dollars

   I was a new owner of the Fosters Hotel and Saloon in the early 1970s when a group of people came to Chama...

Farmer Will Be Missed

   Joseph Merhege, a founding member of Española Farmers’ Market Board, long-time grower at Española Valley Farms, educator, coach, acequia activist and friend died...

Rate Hike Not Fair

   Contrary to your editorial (Rio Grande SUN, “Trash Rate Hike Fair…”, Sept. 5, 2013, page A7), to our Españolan families, friends and neighbors...

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