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By Bill Diven The heavy-duty pipe and power lines already lacing Placitas may gain a new neighbor as renewable energy seeks a transmission route across northern New Mexico. While Invenergy Transmission has published a map of the broad corridor it plans to study, there are limited options to bring its New Mexico North Path project … Continue reading Power Project Plans Path Through Sandoval County
By Jeff Radford Projects in Corrales that have languished for years could finally unfold in the coming year, but that probably won’t include the plagued pathways along Corrales Road in the business district. With a flush session of the state Legislature getting underway, Corrales may come away with funding to complete the new gym at … Continue reading Lots of changes ahead for Corrales this year
By Bill Nevins Cormac McCarthy at age 89 is a hard-edged, take-no-prisoners, literary rock star. He’s written enthralling fictional books about border scalp-hunters, post-apocalyptic survivors, lonely cowboys, troubled cops and cold-eyed narco-killers. He’s won a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and a Pulitzer Prize, been elected to the American Philosophical Society, received lavish praise from critics and … Continue reading Cormac McCarthy’s Puzzling New Novel Is a Strange Trip
By Bill Diven Bernalillo Police Department Detective Pollo Castorena was home and off duty on the evening of Sept. 25 when he heard gunshots outside his Albuquerque home. Not missing a beat, he reported the gunfire, put on his ballistic vest and department-issued sidearm and went outside to save the gunshot victim’s life. The man … Continue reading Town Council Honors a Top Cop
By Bill Diven When 2023 rolls around, the Sandoval County Commission may be a member short while the town of Bernalillo loses a longtime friend in the Legislature. Commissioner F. Kenneth “Ken” Eichwald, D-Cuba, told the Signpost he’ll submit his resignation to the governor effective Dec. 31. However, he won’t be leaving elective office. Instead … Continue reading Election Opens Commission Vacancy, Shuffles Bernalillo Reps
By Carolyn Carlson For many residents of the village of Los Ranchos, Judge Diane Albert was more than just their municipal judge. In many ways she was a bit of the spirit of Los Ranchos. When the news of the murder-suicide of Albert and her husband Eric Pinkerton made its way across the news and … Continue reading Sadness Over Los Ranchos
After taking 2020 off for some much-needed COVID relief, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta returned last year to enthusiastic crowds. This year’s 2022 event marks the legendary local event’s 50th anniversary and is all set to take place Saturday, Oct. 1 through Sunday, Oct. 9. It starts bright and early at 6am every day with … Continue reading Unofficial International Balloon Fiesta Guide 2022
The New Mexico Economic Development Department’s (EDD’s) Outdoor Recreation Division handed out more than $2 million to 20 projects statewide through its Outdoor Recreation Trails+ grant, according to a news release. This is Round 2 of grant funding this year, with Round 1 having been handed out in June. A total of $5 million has … Continue reading Sandoval County Gets 25K for Outdoor Rec Projects
The Corrales Village Council just supported a designated COVID memorial for New Mexicans at its Sept. 27 session. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Corrales resident Eleanor Bravo’s only sister, Desi, died of the disease at age 76. The Bravo family—parents and three sisters—had immigrated to the US from Manila in 1950. … Continue reading Corrales Resident Helps Bring COVID Memorial to NM
The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features on federal lands in the West and elsewhere. New names for nearly 650 places bearing the offensive word “squaw” include the mundane … Continue reading Haaland Leads Charge to Change 650 Public Lands Names, 10 in New Mexico