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By SFCC Santa Fe Community College’sContinuing Education Department is partnering with The Grantsmanship Center to present the Grantsmanship Training Program Online August 10-14.Since most nonprofit organizations are working remotely and need more funding than ever, this online course addresses an urgent need. The intensive, five-day workshop for nonprofit and government …

By CUFI The Summit was an amazing success, and we are thrilled to announce that in response to our Virtual Summit, CUFI members have sent more than 300,000 emails to Congress in support of our 2020 Summit legislative agenda. As you may recall, this year’s agenda was focused on strengthen the …

By BDD Buckman Direct Diversion (BDD) anticipates a potential temporary shutdown of diversions from the Rio Grande as early as this weekend due to expected low flows in the river. Flows in the Rio Grande at the diversion are expected to drop rapidly once the last water stored for irrigation …

By NMDOH The New Mexico Department of Health announced today that current tobacco use by high school students has increased by 23% since 2009. The increase in tobacco use among youth is entirely due to the growing use of electronic vapor products, or e-cigarettes. More than one-third (37.8%) of all …

By Administrative office of the Courts Justice Michael E. Vigil was sworn in today as Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court. He was elected to the position by his colleagues on the five-member court and will serve a term ending in April 2022. He succeeds Justice Judith K. …

By Arnie Leshin Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax knows Fred Wilpon very well. The two go way back to their younger days in the New York borough of Brooklyn, playing baseball in Flat bush’s Parade Grounds and attending Lafayette High School in the 1950s. At the Parade Grounds, Wilpon …

By NNMC Northern New Mexico College has announced that it is providing scholarships for current and prospective students to help cover the cost of education for the 2020-2021 school year.   Northern will provide 100 students with $1,000 scholarships that can be applied toward the student’s account. Scholarships are also …

By Arnie Leshin  It was a national holiday, it was Memorial Day weekend when the Gantts — Taylor, Rachel, Erin and Aiden — first arrived in Santa Fe. It was the year 2005, Taylor and Rachel had met in high school while in Colorado, later married and attended Dakota Wesleyan University …

By Arnie Leshin  Initially, Emma George had New Mexico Technical College in Socorro in mind when she concluded her junior year on the Capital High softball team. But because the school doesn’t have an athletic program and her senior season was shut down by the coronavirus pandemic, she had time …

By EDD The New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division (ORD), a division of the N.M. Economic Development Department (EDD), was awarded a National Park Service (NPS) Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance program (RTCA) grant providing technical assistance in the creation of a statewide strategy on outdoor education, ORD Director Axie Navas …