MAY 2007

Up Front

• Sandoval County focuses on development By Ty Belknap
• Drilling to start on May 28
• Bernalillo gets a Wal-Mart
• Water Supply Could Run Low
• Rio Rancho still hears “that sucking sound”
• Interstate Stream Commission creates minnow habitat
• Sandoval Easy Express bus service started April 23
• Bernalillo Dam rehabilitation underway
• County Fairgrounds improvements to be discussed
• Santa Fe hosts “Building a Culture of Peace” By Mike Stauffer
• Historical Society discusses 1680 Pueblo Revolt
• Bernalillo High School students help victims of Clovis tornados

Animal News

• Lost and Found Pets
• Watermelon Mountain Ranch rescues local animals from abuse, euthanasia By Sarah Joyce
• Is your pet iguana legal?
• Counselor starts pet loss support group

Around Town

• Learn about the plants of the Placitas Open Space By Lolly Jones
• Monument hosts May events
• “Dreamscape Desperado” recounts life of Billy the Kid
• New Mexico’s Spanish livestock heritage By William W. Dunmire

Community Bits

• County searches for Fair Queen
• Food drive helps hungry By Storehouse West
• Green Built Tour returns
• Adobe Association of SW holds conference

Placitas Community Center

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

Community Profile

• Goldstein was Dome Valley icon By Aviva Brooks and Joel Goldstein

EcoBeat

• Too much can be asked of a river By Laura Paskus
• Forest Guardians organizes river restoration tree-planting events
• Audubon NM recognizes three state parks as important bird areas

Night Skies

• Night Sky—Winking stars By Charlie Christmann

Public Safety

• Sheriff sues town of Bernalillo
• Crime statistics from Bernalillo Police Department—March 2007
• Ham Radio class offered

Sandoval Arts

• Corrales Society of Artists “Art in the Park” events return
• Bride of Honkyfest comes to Bernalillo
• Backstage at the bank
• Call for artists
• Call for artist entries for the Placitas Artists Series visual art shows
• String quartet closes Placitas Artists Series twentieth anniversary season By Jackie Ericksen
• Lifelong student of Chopin performs free piano concert in Placitas
• Photographers show at O’Hare’s
• “EchoTaps Worldwide” planned for May 19 at Santa Fe National Cemetery
• The spirit of Frida Kahlo captured in La casa azul
• Duke City Shootout Digital Filmmaking Festival accepting scripts for 2007 festival

The Gauntlet

• Your letters and comments to the editor
• Editorial: Out-of-state corporations play shell game with New Mexico taxes By New Mexico Voices for Children
• Heard around the West By Betsy Marston, High Country News

Schoolbag

• Summer reading program at Placitas Community Library By Nancy Guist
• Placitas Community Library plans activities for spring By Judy Gajkowski
• County Line By Don Leonard, Sandoval County Commission Chairman
• Village Academy Charter School students win state writing competitions By Idalee Vogel

Time Off

• Jiking in the Jemez By Ty Belknap
• Completing the Continental Divide Trail a statewide priority
• Construction near Fenton Lake begins
• Forest Service hosts off-road travel management workshops
• Long distance hiker sets off on Continental Divide Trail

Uncle Duffy

• Signs seen around town
• New vocabulary for the workplace and beyond

Word Around Town

• What’s the word around town? By J. Patterson