2020 JUNE 6 ISSUE: MERCANTILE RESUMES PLANT SALES, SUPPLIES
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Plant and shrub suppliers may not be going to hell in a handcart, an apt phrase derived from the dumping of the dead in carts during the plague in London in the 1600s, but they seem increasingly to be going to hemp growing, according to people close to the operations of the Village […]
2020 JUNE 6 ISSUE: MAYOR SENDS PRELIMINARY BUDGET UP FOR APPROVAL
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] As instructed by the N .M. Department of Finance and Administration in Santa Fe, Village officials have submitted the same preliminary municipal budget for the coming fiscal year as it has for this year. Village government’s projection for revenues during the fiscal year that starts July 1 is a repeat of that for FY […]
2020 JUNE 6 ISSUE: COMMERCIAL ROUND UP; SOME BOOM, SOME BUST
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Slider_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] The ups and downs and in and outs of Corrales businesses and owners is as fluid as ever, perhaps even more so given the pandemic. Some places are slowly reopening, under the latest guidelines from Governor Lujan Grisham. Others are moving largely online, at least for the foreseeable future. A plan […]
2020 JUNE 6 ISSUE: SWAINSON’S HAWKS HAVE HUNTED HERE FOR YEARS
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] The Swainson’s Hawk now residing in the Corrales Bosque Preserve was finally satisfied with tree-top real estate conditions here. As reported in a front-page article and photograph in May 9 issue, a Swainson’s Hawk has been documented as having nested in the Corrales bosque. Hawks Aloft Director Gail Garber said May 1 that […]
2020 JUNE 6 ISSUE: ROMERO ROAD ENTRANCE TO PRESERVE GETS MAKEOVER
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Memorial Day weekend visits to the Corrales Bosque Preserve led to restrictions to prevent forest fires and the Fire Department’s lack of access to respond to emergencies. “Over the past several weeks, the Corrales Bosque parking lots at both Siphon Road and Romero Road have been filled with cars, and not all of […]
2020 JUNE 6 ISSUE: SANDIA PUEBLO, CORRALES COORDINATE BOSQUE EFFORT
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] By Scott Manning The Corrales Bosque Advisory Commission and Sandia Pueblo are in talks to collaborate on bosque maintenance efforts. According to Fire Chief Anthony Martinez, collaboration between the Village of Corrales and Sandia Pueblo would consist of dialogue between the two parties to coordinate bosque maintenance and to secure more funding. Martinez […]
2020 JUNE 6 ISSUE: AARON GJULLIN REPLACES SHANNON FRESQUEZ AS CLERK
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Although Mayor Jo Anne Roake declined to explain the departure of former Village Clerk Shannon Fresquez, Aaron Gjullin has been hired to replace her. Gjullin has been assisting Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Siverts over the past two years. He started working at the rec center as a life guard at the pool […]
2020 JUNE 6 ISSUE: SPECIAL SESSION STARTS JUNE 18; FISCAL HURT MAY NOT BE SO BAD
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] A special session of the N.M. legislature convenes June 18 to address impacts of the pandemic-related economic collapse on the State budget. “At the state level, it’s not as dire as you may think,” State Representative Daymon Ely said May 28. A big part of the discussion will center on grants that may […]
2020 – JUNE 6 ISSUE: CANDIDATES PREPARE FOR NOVEMBER
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] With party primary elections behind us, will victors’campaigns leading to November rachet up vicious attacks or adopt the anti-coronavirus refrain “We’re All In This Together?” Top-of-ticket outcomes were known before polls closed even on the East Coast, so Joe Biden will challenge Donald Trump in the general elections. While primary elections elsewhere around […]
2020 – JUNE 6 ISSUE: PROSPECTS FOR REOPENING APS SCHOOLS, PROGRAMS
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Reopening Albuquerque Public Schools in August will depend on many factors, including an acute need for more school custodians, given the sanitization issues during a pandemic, as well as a lack of school nurses, in many cases. Revitalizing the state’s economy is dependent in part on parents who cannot work from home, and […]