Most kids love big trucks and students (and their miniature horse) at the Moriarty-Edgewood School District’s Early Childhood Center got up close and personal with one of the biggest last week when drivers from the New Mexico Department of Transportation’s District 5 patrol dropped in last week. NMDOT workers shared gift bags with students and […]
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Light right: Why Corrales loves the dark
Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series submitted by Village of Corrales Code Enforcement Officer Dennis Edeal on lighting in the village. Understanding our village lighting rules (and why they’re actually pretty great) When was the last time you stood in your driveway on a clear night and looked up? Really looked […]
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Albuquerque Community Foundation picks Native New Mexican to lead
For the first time in 20 years, the state’s largest community foundation has a new leader — and they didn’t have to go far to find her. Marisa Magallanez officially took the helm of the Albuquerque Community Foundation and the New Mexico Community Trust as president and CEO on Jan. 1. Magallanez, a native of […]
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From Placitas to Juárez: How a small non-profit is delivering tons of dignity
Community content submitted by Morgan Smith, Santa Fe It may seem hard to believe, but a non-profit in a tiny Placitas, New Mexico ( pop. 4,500), just east of Albuquerque, has become the lifeblood of one of the only remaining migrant shelters in Juárez, Mexico, as well as other shelters and humanitarian programs along the […]
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The Tumbleweed Snowman is 30 years old. See how he’s changed since 1995
OK, Albuquerque, do you know what today is? Yes, it’s #GivingTuesday (an important day in a nonprofit newsroom) but it’s also Tumbleweed Tuesday, the day the Tumbleweed Snowman claims his holiday perch alongside the busy westbound lanes of I-40 next to the AMAFCA offices near the “Big I.” This year is also the icon’s 30-year […]
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Thankful for locals who’ll be buying local and reading local this season
From the publisher… Pat Davis, Publisher “People have a right to know… Since The Independent News first closed its doors in 2022, no journalists have covered Moriarty. When we brought The Indy back to Edgewood in 2023, we always wanted to get back to Moriarty, too. In the Spring of 2025, we finally did. Working […]
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Starbucks to close hundreds of stores, including in New Mexico. Is yours on the list?
Starbucks announced Thursday that it would close hundreds of its company owned stores that would not be a part of the company’s strategy to revive the struggling coffee behemoth brand. Social media soon filled with posts from Starbucks employees saying they had received notice that their location would close, just as the company pushed out […]
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Route 66 rabbit icon was born in Tijeras Canyon
By Rick Holben, East Mountain Historical Society If you traveled with family on Route 66 as a child in the 1950s and 1960s, you probably remember seeing jackrabbit signs that seemed to spring alongside the famous highway for miles and miles and miles, leading tourists to a trading post in Arizona. Turns out, that iconic […]
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Residents return flag to Sedillo Hill after years of NMDOT bureaucracy
For years, drivers topping Sedillo Hills on I-40 marked the waypoint with a nod towards a simple American flag flying proudly on top of the hill. And then, one day, it was gone. For more than two years, members and supporters of the Sandia Lions Club in the East Mountains negotiated with the state’s Department […]
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Photo of the day: Lightning in Placitas
Budd Berkman took this photo at sunset on Sept. 9 near his Placitas home. Do you want to see one of your photos in the Sandoval Signpost? Email it to kevin@newmexico.news with a brief description.