2021 JULY 24 ISSUE: MORE PET MAYOR CANDIDATES?
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Nominate your own four-legged —or two-legged or eight-legged— critter for Corrales’ next Pet Mayor. Heck, a candidate doesn’t need to have any legs at all to qualify. The annual event is part of the Corrales Harvest Festival. The winner will be announced on the last day of this year’s festival, based on a […]
2021 JULY 24 ISSUE: ANGELA GUTIERREZ, NEW MAINSTREET CHIEF
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Corrales MainStreet, Inc.’s new executive director, Angela Gutierrez, anticipates using her background in marketing to boost Corrales’ potential for tourism and economic development. She has replaced Sandy Rasmussen, who retired June 30 after serving in that role since 2016. “This feels like a really exciting time to take over with Corrales MainStreet,” Gutierrez […]
2021 JULY 24 ISSUE: SURVEY ON USES OF INTERIOR DRAIN DITCH
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] A survey will be mailed out to residents near the Corrales Interior Drain to learn what changes, if any, should be considered to the long drainage ditch east of Corrales Road. A committee appointed by Mayor JoAnne Roake has been convened to develop plans for how the property owned by the Middle Rio […]
2021 JULY 24 ISSUE: BEWARE APPLE MOTH DAMAGE
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] In 2019, the last year the Rio Grande Valley produced a significant apple harvest, a severe case of apple maggot damage was found in two Corrales apple orchards. So what are apple maggots, and how are they different from codling moths? Codling moths lay eggs on the fruit and leaves of the tree. When […]
2021 JULY 24 ISSUE: MARTHA EGAN’S NEW BOOK WINS ‘BOOK OF THE YEAR’
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] A book researched and written by Corrales’ Martha Egan has been selected as a “Book of the Year” by Foreword Reviews journal. Her book, Relicarios The Forgotten Jewels of Latin America, published last year by Fresco Books, won a silver award. With lavish photographs, the art book exposes a little known Latin American […]
2021 JULY 24 ISSUE: SECURING NATION’S NUCLEAR WASTE
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] By Scott Manning Former Village Councillor Gerard Gagliano, CEO of the technology security company Prodentity, is concerned about the future of the stalled Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository project and about future nuclear waste repository projects. Nuclear waste storage is a serious problem in the United States. Waste generated from nuclear power production […]
2021 JULY 24 ISSUE: PLACITAS ART SHOW JULY 31 EXPLORES COLOR YELLOW
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] More than 25 artists submitted work for the Placitas art exhibition July 31 through September 9 when responding to the announced theme: the color yellow. The art show is at the Placitas Community Library which is open Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., […]
2021 JULY 24 ISSUE: PEREA HAIRCUT RAFFLE RAISES $2,941 FOR FIRE DEPT.
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Guitar maker Roberto Pimentel won the raffle to decide what style of haircut John Perea will get following an unshorn year. A drawing was held Saturday, July 17 in the Tijuana Bar at Perea’s Restaurant after organizer Sam Thompson announced that raffle ticket sales had raised $2,941 for the Corrales Fire Department. Fire […]
2021 JULY 24 ISSUE: CONGRESSWOMAN LEGER FERNANDEZ ADDRESSES SUPPORTERS AT LIBRARY PARK
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Speaking in Corrales’ La Entrada Park June 5, Congresswoman Theresa Leger Fernandez was adamant that concerted action be taken to confront climate change. “We are ground-zero for climate crisis,” she emphasized. “We need to be talking about revenue replacement” for money that would come to New Mexico as the state and nation move […]
2021 JULY 24 ISSUE: 2 CONSERVATION EASEMENTS TO PRESERVE FARMLAND DECIDED AT LATER COUNCIL
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Purchase of two more conservation easements to preserve farmland was postponed so that a single transaction with the N.M. Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) to purchase Corrales’ municipal bonds could be consolidated. The Village Council had been expected to exercise pending options to acquire easements at its July 20 session. But Village […]