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Commentary: Supreme Court Program Allows Students to Learn About the Judicial Process

This letter is provided as opinion/commentary from the author. You can submit your own letter to editor@sandovalsignpost.com Submitted by Justice David K. Thomson, Office of the Courts This year is the 60th anniversary of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. President John F. Kennedy proposed this legislation in 1963, but he was assassinated before […]

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Letter to the Editor: Intel Needs a Better Way of Managing Emissions

Submitted by Barbara Rockwell, Placitas resident and the author of “Boiling Frogs, Intel vs. the Village” Intel plans to use a new version of the old oxidizers/incinerators, emission control technology in its new expansion, a technology that is now more than thirty years old. Burning off the emissions was always unreliable resulting in breakdowns that […]

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The Witches of Abiquiu

Five decades after the Salem witchcraft trials, where over 200 people were accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusets, there was an outbreak of witchcraft in Abiquiu, New Mexico.  Dr. Rick Hendricks and Malcolm Ebright wrote a book titled, “The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genizaro Indians and the Devil,” based on a […]

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A Child’s Garden

It’s “thyme” to start gardening… again for the Placitas Elementary School (PES). After a long break from budget setbacks and a pandemic, PES is bringing back its popular gardening program. The program was started by Principal Joseph Lepre back in 2015, who understood that some parents couldn’t pick up their children right when school ended.  […]

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Getting Rid of Garden Pests

Many commercial nursery and greenhouse operations have a continual routine of spraying with pesticides, virucides, fungicides, fertilizers and PGRs (Plant Growth Regulators) to bring perfect, lush and consistent products to retail garden stores and the consumer.  Road’s End Farm and Nursery located between Edgewood and Moriarty doesn’t follow that approach and is a bee and […]