2020-MAY 9 ISSUE: SEED2NEED STAYS FLEXIBLE
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] The stalwart volunteers who keep Corrales’ non-profit Seed2Need project going are stepping up again this growing season, but with a difference. According to Manager Dom Tafoya, coronavirus circumstances meant the typical spring gathering of students and others at the usual greenhouse to plant seeds in seed beds could not happen. Instead, a few […]
2020 – MAY 9 ISSUE: VETERANS’ CEMETERY FOR SANDOVAL COUNTY?
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] At a Village Council teleconference session last month, Sandoval County Commissioner Jay Block said the County landfill —which the Village of Corrales started more than 40 years ago— may be nearly full. Corrales started the landfill because Rio Rancho was not yet incorporated as a municipality but Corrales was, and State law mandated that […]
2020 – MAY 9 ISSUE: UPDATE ON PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham eased up pandemic-imposed restrictions on “non-essential retailers” May 1, indicating that such retailers “may provide curbside pickup and delivery services if permitted by their business license. Liquor licenses, for instance, do not allow for curbside or delivery service. Child care may now be extended to people operating non-essential businesses.” […]
2020 – MAY 9 ISSUE: REC CENTER FIELDS NEVER LOOKED BETTER
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Have you noticed how green the soccer fields are at the recreation center? Always a source of community pride, the athletic fields are now spectacular after recent re-seeing and grooming. Even Corrales Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Siverts thinks so. “I’ve never seen them looking better,” he said at the end of April. […]
2020-MAY 9 ISSUE: CORRALES’ ALEX KNIGHT’S IMPROV THEATER STALLS
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] By Meredith Hughes It’s a classic coronavirus tale. A guy hops a quick flight home to the Albuquerque area from Los Angeles to celebrate his niece’s fourth birthday, and to nd preside over a couple days of workshops. But over a month later, he’s still there. And he has not yet seen his […]
2020-MAY 9 ISSUE: PARADE FOR CORRALES GRADUATES SAT. MAY 23 ON CORONADO, LOMA LARGA
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] A Corrales parade has been arranged for high school graduates Saturday, May 23 in lieu of the traditional commencement ceremonies. The parade starts promptly at 10 a.m. at the Recreation Center and heads south to Coronado Road (mostly bypassing Corrales Road) and then goes west to Loma Largo before returning to Corrales Road […]
2020-MAY 9 ISSUE: ‘YOUNG IN ART’ EXHIBITION WINNERS
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Slider_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] The People’s Choice Award for Corrales Elementary School’s submissions for this year’s “Young in Art” show was won by fourth grader Delilah Muxworthy. The award presentations and reception that traditionally have culminated the event had to be cancelled this year due to the pandemic. But judges were still able to evaluate […]
2020 MAY 9 ISSUE: IDEUM’S ROLE AS ‘ESSENTIAL BUSINESS’ EXPLAINED
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Slider_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] By Meredith Hughes Back a month or so ago, one of Corrales Comment’s readers was puzzled by all the action at Ideum, the touch table/screen software and hardware builder with two locations in the village. ‘How is this essential business?” he asked. Its essential nature swiftly was verified by the Governor’s […]
2020 MAY 9 ISSUE: OLD FIRE STATION, STEEPED IN CONFLICT, WILL BE P&Z OFFICE
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] A crucial bit of Corrales history likely will be stuccoed over in the weeks ahead as renovation of the old Corrales Valley Fire Station concludes. The frame-and-stucco building erected in the late 1970s as a fire-rescue station for the unincorporated territory in the Corrales Valley is being converted to house Village government’s planning […]
2020 – MAY 9 ISSUE: INTEL DRAINAGE PROJECT MAY PREVENT FLOODING BELOW
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Slider_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Stormwater run-off from the east side of Intel’s property onto Corrales homes may finally be controlled. Extensive drainage control improvements, including concrete block walls, grading, plantings, spreading of gravel and creation of ponding areas and check dams, have been completed over the past year after consultations with engineers. Intel’s Erika Edgerly […]