Longtime Santa Fe educator, administrator Carl Marano to head Tucumcari schools santafenewmexican.com/news/local_new… via Santa Fe New Mexican #nmedu #education

New EPA rule compels San Juan, Four Corners coal plants to clean up ash waste santafenewmexican.com/news/local_new… via Santa Fe New Mexican #environment #coal

Open state Senate district seat draws three candidates santafenewmexican.com/news/local_new… via Santa Fe New Mexican #nmpol #nmleg #Elections2024

Reclassification of marijuana unlikely to end cannabis seizures near border santafenewmexican.com/news/local_new… via Santa Fe New Mexican #nmpol #marijuana #cannabis

Former Santa Fe priest to take plea in abuse case, court filing says santafenewmexican.com/news/local_new… via Santa Fe New Mexican

Santa Fe's community development director to retire santafenewmexican.com/news/local_new… via Santa Fe New Mexican

The 2024-25 school year will bring about $8.6 million in increased costs — including $2.4 million in state-mandated raises for educators and a $1.5 million bump in employee benefits — to Santa Fe Public Schools, Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez said.
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Photographer Raul Velderrain spent two months planning the perfect shot of the Milky Way as it loomed behind the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. What he didn't plan to do was spend 28 hours in jail on a count of trespassing.
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An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday.
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Editorial: The performances are underway. They continue through May 18. Then, beginning Saturday, it’s time for galas — all to celebrate 30 years of the National Dance Institute of New Mexico while looking to ensure many more years to come.
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Out There!: Here's your weekly roundup of some of the must-see, must-do, must-know things that need to be on your radar this week.
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Thirty years after the publication of her iconic 'Bird by Bird,' Anne Lamott, who will be speaking at the upcoming Santa Fe International Literary Festival, has just released her 20th novel and her words are what we all need right now.
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Opera has been featured (and made fun of) in cartoons for 95 years, from Mickey Mouse's The Opry House in 1929 to many episodes of The Simpsons today.
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Meow Wolf announced Friday it plans to open a sixth permanent immersive arts exhibition in Los Angeles by 2026, news that comes less than three weeks after the company laid off more than 100 workers.
The Los Angeles site will be in a movie theater.
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Santa Fe County is looking for people 'of diverse backgrounds and representative of varied health care services' to serve on its nine-member Health Policy and Planning Commission.
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Santa Fe County clerk candidate questionnaires
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All St. Michael’s needed was to take one game of a doubleheader Thursday against Santa Fe Indian School to secure the District 2-3A title, and a senior-laden group did that. The Horsemen won the tiebreaker against SFIS, having won two of three games.
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The dates of this year’s IndigenousWays Festival are Friday, May 3, as well as June 8 and August 16. Diversity is at the event’s core, and the performances celebrate Indigenous, LGBTQIA2S+, and deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
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Two law enforcement vehicles were totaled early Sunday morning when New Mexico State Police officers performed a maneuver to stop a stolen Taos County Sheriff's Office patrol unit.
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The second annual Love Your Watershed Day, a free event at De Vargas Park on Saturday, includes live music, educational activities, yoga, a river cleanup and others offerings from the association and a range of community partners.
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