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 …
Read More »Religious freedom is winning, but religious hostility is on the rise
By Family policy alliance Over the past few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down three significant decisions involving the First Amendment freedom of religion. In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Court ruled that a discriminatory Montana rule prohibiting students from using tax-credit scholarships at religious schools violated …
Read More »SFNF Offers Online Option to Request Fuelwood Permits
By SFNF In response to COVID-19, the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) moved to a no-contact process to sell personal-use fuelwood permits over the phone and deliver them by postal mail. Since June 1, customers have had to call one of the SFNF offices to purchase a fuelwood permit. Starting …
Read More »Do You Know What to Do if You Encounter a Bear in the Forest? Be Bear Aware for Both Your Safety and the Bear’s
By SFNF A bear encounter on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) last Friday went terribly wrong, leaving a Los Alamos woman in the hospital with a collapsed lung, several broken bones and multiple bites. Although relatively rare, close encounters between humans and large predators like bears and mountain lions …
Read More »Major League Baseball begins its shortened 60-game regular season
By Arnie Leshin Take me out to the ball game is a no-no this time around. No fans in the stands and COPID-19 coronavirus restrictions will be applied, but the game will return despite this. After a delay of nearly four months, the 2020 Major League Baseball season will begin …
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