AUGUST 2007

Up Front

• It’s a gusher! By Ty Belknap
• Sandoval County Commission faces issues
• Sandoval County buses no longer free
• Rio Rancho city informs residents via Web
• Work on Rio Rancho’s new City Hall nearly complete
• Teens join in historic adobe restoration project By Ben Forgey
• County Line—Sandoval County Fair returns By Don Leonard, Sandoval County Commission Chairman

Animal News

• Lost and Found Pets
• Throwing raptors into flight By Becky Lomax, High Country News
• Trash brings animals to recreation sites
• Black bears bite campers

Around Town

• Invasion of the world’s worst tree By Susana Vincent
• Pueblo celebration offers historic, fun-filled events
• Coronado State Monument reviews history in the Salinas Valley
• Goromonzi Day celebrates and supports orphaned children of Zimbabwe
• Learn to make fire
• Open space funded in Rio Rancho
• El Rinconcito español
• House passes funds for Town of Bernalillo water project
• Packing Material Anyone? By Robin Brandin
• Salvador Dali’s entire Divine Comedy suite of illustrations, shown for the first time anywhere, in Las Cruces
• What was the “Santa Fe Ring?” By David L. Caffey

Community Bits

• Record summer heat in the West; everywhere but New Mexico By Jonathan Thompson, High Country News

Placitas Community Center

• Placitas Senior Center Calendar
• Sandoval County Senior and Community Centers’ August Menu

EcoBeat

• Forest Guardians appeal for public comment to save piñon and juniper forests
• LPA Project August workshops By Reid Bandeen, Las Placitas Association
• Best Green Practices Summit comes to ABQ
• Blues festival benefits wildlife at Anasazi Fields
• Justice for the Carlsbad Pipeline Accident—worth the wait By Carol M. Parker

Night Skies

• August night sky By Charlie Christmann

Public Safety

• Celebrating the 1947 UFO crash at Corona, New Mexico By Charlie Christmann
• Bernalillo Police Department news By Fred Radosevich, Chief, Bernalillo Police Department

Signpost Arts

• Featured artists of the month:
  Larry and Lenore Goodell By Ty Belknap
• Opera, anyone? By Ty and Barb Belknap
• Art swap supports local Fire and Rescue and United Blood Services By Darryl Willison
• “Art in the Park” events return
• Rio Rancho Art Association announces show at the Kimo
• 2007 Art Market ready to go in Bernalillo
• Corrales show calls for entries

The Gauntlet

• Your letters and comments to the editor
• Got Ethics? By Lynn Montgomery
• Water does move uphill toward money By Lissa James, High Country News
• Heard around the West By Betsy Marston, High Country News

Schoolbag

• Department of Education awards $818,967 to Bernalillo Public Schools
• Village Academy Charter now enrolling By Kim Smith
• Registration schedule for new students in the Bernalillo Public School System
• Free meals for students in Bernalillo School System
• Third annual back-to-school tax holiday
• Rotary holds benefit dinner-dance for after-school programs
• Summer reading celebration at library By Anne Grey Frost
• Bernalillo Public Schools substitute teaching applicants
• Parenting skills taught at Zia Pueblo
• Adobe Brothers give informative concert on American string band music

Time Off

• Close encounters on the San Juan By Ty and Barb Belknap
• Nine trails projects across New Mexico to receive funding
• Post office makes vacationing easier By Dave Lewin, USPS
• Twin Warriors and Santa Ana Golf Clubs named in prestigious lists

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