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Interim Super. Scores $20K Bonus

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    While the Española School Board ramps up its search for a new superintendent, it decided to give a $20,000 stipend to the woman...

Sheriff Hires Ex-Rival, Ex-Cop, Ex-Jail Director

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    Since taking office Jan. 1, Rio Arriba County Sheriff Tommy Rodella has hired a political rival, a former Española Police officer who faced...

Union Walks Out on ‘Illegal’ Meeting

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    Representatives of Northern New Mexico College’s union walked out of a meeting of the college’s labor board Monday, alleging that the meeting and...

Early Meeting Illegal

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    The Española City Council may have violated the state Open Meetings Act during a regularly scheduled meeting May 24 and compromised the legally...

Mildred Allyne Vaughn Smothermon

Obituaries
  Mildred Allyne Vaughn Smothermon, 93, died Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011 in Spearman. Texas.     Mrs. Smothermon was born Dec. 11, 1917, in Blooming Grove,...

Has Board Pre-Selected New Boss?

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    The Española School Board has fallen weeks behind in its search for a new superintendent, raising questions over the credibility of the effort,...

Redistricting 2011

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    Remember playing with an Etch A Sketch when you were little?     Some state legislators are about to embark on an electoral version of...

Wide Load Rules OK’d

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    Anyone moving a mobile home on the streets of Española will now have to get a permit from the city first under an...

He’s No Deadbeat Dad

Letters To Editor
  We write in response to an article (Rio Grande SUN, Is County Commissioner Dead Beat Dad?, page A1, Aug. 25, 2011).     We are...

Redistricting 2011

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    The Congressional and state Public Regulation Commission districts that fall within Rio Arriba County’s borders gained population between 2000 and 2010. That means...

Police Chase Reveals Understaffed 911 Center

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    Following a shooting and high-speed police chase Memorial Day weekend that led from Española to Arroyo Seco, the Española 911 Center Board called...

Murder Conviction Erased in ’05 Case

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    Gabriel Quintana has spent the last six years in prison on a first-degree murder charge and subsequent conviction that Judge Sheri Raphaelson nullified...
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