By Santa Fe County The Santa Fe County Fire Department is developing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) update. A CWPP is a plan designed to identify and mitigate wildfire hazards to communities and infrastructure located in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), which is an area located between wildland and human …
Read More »Northern Student Selected for National Biomedical Fellowship
By NNMC Northern New Mexico College senior Evelyn Juarez has been named as one of ten students nationwide to receive the 2020 Academy for Research, Clinical, and Health Equity Scholarship (ARCHES) and participate in a fellowship program with the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Juarez, who is pursuing a degree …
Read More »Santa Fe County Commissioners to Vote on Women’s Suffrage Month Proclamation
By Santa Fe County Santa Fe County Board of County Commission (BCC) will vote on proclaiming August as Women’s Suffrage Month and ask for recognition and honor of the 100thAnniversary of the 19th Amendment of the Constitution. Commissioner Anna Hansen will introduce the proclamation and be virtually joined by three …
Read More »More than a dozen Miami Marlins players and staff members test positive for COVID-19
By Arnie Leshin Warning, be careful, but the Miami Marlins weren’t careful enough, and so Major League Baseball has fallen where it was trying to avoid. Where the team found itself stranded in Philadelphia Monday instead of flying home to Miami after winning two of three in the City of …
Read More »Weekly fishing report
By NM Game and Fish The Department is continuing to adapt our ways of working to conserve wildlife for all New Mexicans. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Department biologists and conservation officers continue to conduct wildlife surveys, contact anglers and OHV recreationists and stock fish in open waters throughout the state. …
Read More »Northern New Mexico National Forests To Lift Stage 2 Fire Restrictions Wednesday
By SFNF With the onset of the summer monsoons and decreasing fire danger, the Carson, Cibola and Santa Fe National Forests are rescinding Stage 2 fire restrictions, including the ban on campfires, at 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The forests implemented Stage 2 restrictions, which also included a “hoot …
Read More »Not time yet to get overconfident
By Arnie Leshin Not time yet to get overconfident, overexcited, and looking to the new post-season look. If you are, you’d best first check out your team’s early look, because after the opening 3-4-game weekend of the restored 60-game regular-season, there’s not an undefeated club. Everybody is either 2-1 or 1-2. …
Read More »the new proposed City budget
By Mayor Alan Webber In the first 8 months of fiscal year 2020, which began in July of 2019, Santa Fe truly enjoyed the best of times. Every part of our local economy was booming. We saw strong and steady growth in new housing starts in all parts of the …
Read More »CHRISTUS St. Vincent Set to Receive 5-Star Hospital Quality Rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services
By CHRISTUS St. Vincent CHRISTUS St. Vincent will receive a 5-star quality rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – the highest quality rating awarded by the agency and the first in the hospital’s history. Much has led to this monumental achievement. A deep sense of community and compassion …
Read More »Successful opening day for New York Mets
By Arnie Leshin Friday afternoon at Citi Field was quite an opening day for the New York Mets. It came 299 days after the Major League’s last regular-season game, four months after spring training was shut down because of thecoronavirus pandemic, and upped their MLBbest opening day record to 37-20 …
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