The City of Moriarty Fire Department, firefighters and other emergency personnel were dispatched to the area of Lexco Rd. and Fernandez Rd. for a structure fire around 11:45 a.m. on Sunday, March 3. The cause is still undetermined, but the wind-driven fire appears to have started in a mobile home which quickly spread, burning four […]
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New Mexico joins national effort to bolster local news
New Mexico is now part of a $500 million effort to rebuild and revitalize local news around the country. The state is joining 10 other new Press Forward chapters, bringing the total to 17. Press Forward is a coalition of some of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations and the New Mexico chapter will be co-lead […]
Posted inCongress & Federal Gov., Courts, Justice & Safety
Man serves joy through popcorn
On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, the lobby of 505 Marquette Ave. is permeated with the comforting aroma of “better than movie theater” popcorn and the warm laughter of an Albuquerque man who loves making people’s days better. Not everyone who enters the lobby of the building is having their best day. The building houses the […]
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Special Help Wanted: 86% of APS teacher vacancies are for special education teachers
The Albuquerque Public Schools district needs more than 100 special education teachers to fill vacancies in its 176 individual schools. According to the district’s job listings on Thursday afternoon, 120 of 139 open teaching positions were in special education. The district is not unique in that regard. Monica Armenta, executive director for communications at APS, […]
Posted inCourts, Justice & Safety, Westside Albuquerque
K9 School Helps Police Dogs Take a Bite Out of Crime
On Feb 27, an abandoned movie theater and a vacant building that was once a bar off of Coors and Paseo was transformed into training grounds for some of New Mexico’s law enforcement officers. What made this training unique was that many of the police participating in the training exercises were not humans, they were […]
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Commission Plans Expansion of Rio Rancho Estates
There was plenty to cheer for in a jam-packed Sandoval County Commission meeting on Feb. 28 before the important county business. Daniel Beaman, the Director of Planning and Zoning for Sandoval County, presented a motion to the Commission to approve and amend the Sandoval County Comprehensive Plan. The Commission unanimously voted to approve the proposed […]
Posted inHousing & Homelessness, Pueblos
Memorial Planned for Corrales Businesswoman
By Jeff Radford, for the Corrales Comment A memorial service will be held March 12 for Corrales hair stylist Judy Gagliano, owner of Corrales Hair Studio, who died February 24. At 69 years old, she had battled brain cancer for the past 13 months during treatments at the Mayo Clinic Arizona Cancer Research Center. The […]
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Cirque du Soleil Returns to Rio Rancho, on Ice
Cirque fans will get the opportunity to watch the acrobatics of the newest show to come out of the international juggernaut franchise. Cirque du Soleil:Crystal is in Rio Rancho, is planning multiple shows through March 10 at the Rio Rancho Events Center. Each new show often travels through Rio Rancho because organizers cluster events in […]
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Next year’s APS budget includes more money for special education, less money for food
Albuquerque Public Schools will have less money to work with next fiscal year, but it is working on ways to lessen the disruption in services, budget officials told the Board of Education Wednesday evening. District officials have said the budget will drop from $2.167 billion for the current fiscal year to about $1.9 billion for […]
Posted inCongress & Federal Gov., Housing & Homelessness
Roadrunner CEO: ‘Food insecurity can strike anyone’
Roadrunner by the numbers: Dana Yost was named the president and CEO of Albuquerque-based Roadrunner Food Bank in August 2023. He comes to the city from Tucson, Arizona — a state where he worked in the food bank industry for 13 years. In just a handful of months at the helm, Yost said he’s noticed […]