Aspencade Returns With Fresh Face In 2023, Putting Spotlight On Autumn Colors And Live Music In Red River
Red River News:
RED RIVER — Aspencade, formerly known as the Red River Folk Festival at Aspencade, is set to make its much-anticipated comeback in 2023, bringing a fresh face to the beloved boutique festival.
Taking place over four days at the peak of the aspen trees changing to their vibrant autumn hues, this unique event promises a memorable experience for music lovers and craft enthusiasts alike.
With live music filling the crisp fall air and artisan craft vendors lining the park, Aspencade showcases the very best of New Mexico and Southwest craftsmanship. Visitors can expect to find a Read More
U.S. Senators Heinrich, Ernst Lead Bipartisan Effort To Improve Agricultural Conservation Practices
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
N.M. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Roger Marshall (R-Kans.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced a new, bipartisan bill to streamline the Natural Resource Conservation Service’s (NRCS) process for updating and adopting conservation practice standards that help farmers and ranchers improve soil health, build resilience to climate impacts, and achieve their conservation goals.
The bill will close the gap between evidence based NRCS best practices and emerging research and innovation, enabling Read More
New Mexico Supreme Court Unveils Portraits Of Chief Justices Barbara Vigil And Judith Nakamura
Chief Justices Judith Nakamura, left, and Barbara Vigil at portrait unveiling at Supreme Court. Courtesy photo
NMSC News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Supreme Court honored and celebrated the judicial careers of Chief Justices Barbara J. Vigil and Judith K. Nakamura during a ceremony today to unveil their official portraits.
The portraits will be displayed in the historic Supreme Court building in an area known as the Hall of Chief Justices because it contains portraits of other justices who led the state’s highest court.
“These paintings serve as a permanent reminder of the extraordinary accomplishments Read More
FBI: Albuquerque Man Gets 30 Years For Enticing Minor
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE — Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced Wednesday that Dominic Allan Marks was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Marks, 37, of Albuquerque, pled guilty in federal court March 7, 2023, to enticement of a minor.
According to court documents, Nov. 9, 2022, the FBI obtained a federal search warrant for an address in Carlsbad associated with an online account for a fetish website that had been discussing the sexual molestation of a 9-year-old minor Read More
Los Alamos Based UbiQD Executes On Local Economic Development
UbiQD Founder/CEO Hunter McDaniel, front row third from left, with his team in front of their headquarters recently at 134 Eastgate Road. Courtesy/UbiQD
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com
- Despite COVID, the company met all of their LEDA obligations each year, without exception, and the County Council voted to successfully close their LEDA project in May of this year.
UbiQD, Inc. has successfully completed a Local Economic Development Agreement (LEDA), garnering praise from County and State officials.
“Success stories like these are exactly why Gov. Lujan Read More
Fuselier: Marlon’s Road To Emmaus
By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series about the NPH’s work in Latin America. Please see previous part one here and part two here.
Marlon’s Emmaus moment came somewhere during his early 30’s. Before that, he had experienced the love of his two parents early in his life, enough to give him the confidence needed to survive living on the streets of Tegucigalpa as a young teenager. He had also felt a tremendous sense of abandonment as a young child when his mother died and as a young teenager when his father told him that he could no longer support him. On the streets, Read More
Los Alamos Rotary Club Youth Exchange Student Annabelle Rosette Prepares For Year Of Study In Huesca, Spain
Rotary Youth Exchange Student Annabelle Rosette performs on cello at club’s meeting Aug. 22 at Cottonwood on the Greens. Photo by Linda Hull
By LINDA HULL
Rotary Club of Los Alamos
Annabelle Rosette, a junior in high school, performed on cello for an admiring audience at the Rotary Club meeting Aug. 22 at Cottonwood on the Greens. The selections she chose were La Cinquantaine, written in 1887 by Jean-Gabriel Prosper Marie, a French romantic composer and conductor, and The Sounds of Silence, written by American folk singer and songwriter Paul Simon in 1964.
In September, Rosette will travel to Read More
Heinrich, Luján, Vasquez Announce $9.2 Million In Funding From Infrastructure Law To Deliver High-Speed Internet To Sierra And Doña Ana Counties
Congressional News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) have announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded $9,256,350 in funding from the Infrastructure Law for New Mexico-based Sacred Wind Communications to expand reliable, affordable, high-speed internet for residents in Sierra and Doña Ana counties.
The funding will be delivered through USDA’s Rural Development Reconnect Loan and Grant Program.
“Improved access to reliable high-speed internet means improved access to Read More
Fundraiser For Ukrainian Mother And Daughter Saturday
COMMUNITY News:
A warehouse sale benefiting a mother and daughter in Ukraine will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at AAA Storage, 1519 Pacheco, Unit 4, in Santa Fe.
Clothing will be for sale and 100 percent of the proceeds from clothing sales will go toward the mother and daughter to help them financially during the war. Read More
FBI: Shiprock Man Pleads Guilty To Assault Of 13-Month-Old Infant Facing Up To 10 Years In Prison
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE — Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Albuquerque Field Office, have announced that Myron Benally, 38, of Shiprock, and a registered member of the Navajo Nation, pled guilty in federal court to assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
Benally will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
According to court documents, on June 27, 2019, Benally assaulted a 13-month-old infant in his care, causing serious bodily Read More