By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — Want your ghost stories with a little extra atmosphere? The Rio Rancho Players are taking their campfire tales somewhere spirits already feel right at home: French Funeral Home. “Around the Campfire” opens Friday and runs two weekends at the funeral home on Unser Boulevard. Thirteen storytellers will gather around […]
By Rodd Cayton, The Paper. — It wasn’t exactly a test Oct. 10 in Placitas, but many did P.A.S.S. The Placitas Resilience & Emergency Preparedness Alliance (PREP) and Placitas Volunteer Fire Department Station No. 41 teamed up for an open house that centered on training anyone who was interested in proper fire extinguisher use. Firefighters […]
By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — North Valley residents who challenged plans for a proposed mosque lost their appeal Wednesday evening when Bernalillo County commissioners denied the appeal and upheld conditional-use approval for the Albuquerque Islamic Center on Second Street. Residents raised concerns about traffic and the area’s rural character. During its Oct. 14 zoning […]
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — Bernalillo residents can’t pay water bills online or visit the town’s Motor Vehicle Department after a cyberattack froze the town’s public-facing computer systems over the long holiday weekend. Officials say nobody will lose service or pay late fees while the town recovers. Mayor Jack Torres said the town’s IT […]
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — Nearly 5,000 Sandoval County voters have already cast ballots for the Nov. 3 election. Starting Saturday, everyone else gets a lot more places to do the same. Early voting expands to 21 more sites across the county on Oct. 17, including five in Rio Rancho. Until now, the only […]
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — Professional hockey is back in New Mexico. That alone would make this a noteworthy weekend, but Rio Rancho and the surrounding region add an R&B arena show, a free Halloween movie night, an astrophotography workshop, a pet shot clinic and a comedian who got fired from Trader Joe’s for […]
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — Seventeen years after the Scorpions skated off, pro hockey returns to Rio Rancho on Friday, and the Goatheads already have a packed house waiting. The New Mexico Goatheads host the Idaho Steelheads at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at the Rio Rancho Events Center in the first game in […]
By Kevin Hendricks Moriarty shoppers will have to take their bargain hunting elsewhere for now after a vehicle crashed into the Dollar General on Route 66 Wednesday morning, closing the store until further notice. Moriarty Fire Department crews responded at about 10 a.m. to the store at 705 U.S. Route 66, according to a department […]
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — Your state income tax is on the ballot this fall, at least in spirit. Republicans running for Rio Rancho-area House seats say New Mexico’s oil windfall can cover shrinking or scrapping it. Their Democratic opponents say that would blow a hole in schools, health care and public safety. Candidates […]
By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — About six people a week died from opioid-related causes in Bernalillo County last year. Now, county commissioners are considering an emergency declaration to help fund a more robust response, including expanded street medicine and addiction treatment, real-time overdose tracking and a new sheriff’s operation targeting drug traffickers. Bernalillo County […]
