OCTOBER 2006

Up Front

• Bernalillo suspends all construction near Rail Runner By Ben Forgey
• Reclamation by MAPCO is happening on Placitas Open Space By Bill Diven
• Gravel-mining moratorium gathering support, public meeting planned By Judith Hendry
• Event will bring 5,000 visitors to state for premier science competition
• Duke City dustup By Laura Paskus, High Country News
• Historical society presentation: Native women can break political barriers
• County line—County property taxes going down By Jack Thomas, Chairman, Sandoval County Commission

Animal News

• Young mountain lion killed outside Santa Fe
• Game Commission approves otter restoration in New Mexico By Dan Williams, NM Department of Game and Fish
• Thanks from Watermelon Mountain Ranch By Sophia DiClemente

Around Town

• Placitas Library hosts candidates forum October 1 By Anne Frost
• New Rio Rancho library to open December 4
• Hunters were advised to avoid Spaceport rocket-launch area on 9/25
• Pottery Mound: a progress report
• October 14 star party in Placitas
• How to control wildlife pests
• Signpost plans a community photo page

Business

• Mind Body Center opens in Placitas
• Free business and employer workshops available
• Designate your United Way donation to help BPS students By Stephanie Coleman

Community Bits

• Seniors needed to help seniors By Cindy V. Anderson
• Conference will focus on needs of seniors

Community Profile

• In honor of Esther Martinez, master storyteller
• Sandoval County Veterans Vietnam Memorial will be dedicated on November 11
• LPA Hagan hike reveals history of ghost town

Placitas Community Center

• Placitas Community Center & Senior Center Schedule
• Sandoval County Senior Center Lunch menu

EcoBeat

• Las Placitas Association awarded Environment Department grant By Reid Bandeen
• Conflict of Interest—Cows vs. Wildlife By Nicole Rosmarino
• Environmental group restores grazing lands to natural habitat

Health

• Sandoval Health Commons receives youth nutrition and fitness grant
• Bingaman calls on feds to work with state to prevent plague deaths

Night Skies

• Night sky—and then there were eight By Charlie Christmann
• The Loss of Our Night Sky
• The Planets and Moon

Public Safety

• Public-safety heroes named from Corrales, Rio Rancho for Salute to Heroes Week 2006

Sandoval Arts

• Signpost featured artist of the month
  By Ben Forgey
• Arturo Chávez takes top award at Western art exhibition
• An old-fashioned ghost story
• Festival coming during Balloon Fiesta
• Apples from Larry Goodell By J B Bryan
• Corrales Visual Arts to present annual benefit show
• Placitas artist meets Dali Lama
• Van Cliburn-competition finalist to play in Placitas By Jackie Ericksen, PAS
• New adaptation of Candide opening at UNM
• Born free and running wild

The Gauntlet

• Your letters and comments to the editor
• Heard Around the West By Betsy Marston, High Country News

Schoolbag

• Three Placitas students accepted by 2007 leadership program
• Making Lottery Success Scholarships sustainable
• Do you have trouble sleeping?
• UNM, NMSU, CNM to collaborate on Rio Rancho campus plan
• Child-development screening available
• One Word, Two Words, or Hyphenated?

Time Off

• Rattlesnake summer By Ty Belknap