SEPTEMBER 2006

Up Front

• Monsoons pound Placitas By Ty Belknap (video link)
• Rebuilding I-25 won’t begin until 2007 By Bill Diven
• Prehistoric animals found in Bernalillo By Ben Forgey
• Town of Bernalillo adds new wine competition to New Mexico Wine Festival
• Meet the candidates at Democratic family social
• Gravel mine threatens Placitas By Ty Belknap
• Placitas Library wants community input By Gail Dellapelle

Animal News

• Wily puma leads Estancia merry chase By Marlys Keenan
• Rain slows WMR construction By Sophia DiClemente, Watermelon Mountain Ranch
• Zoo, aquarium, botanic garden seek volunteers

Around Town

• Free Rail Runner and shuttle will ease traffic to Bernalillo Wine Festival By Bill Diven
• County line By County Commission Chairman Jack Thomas
• Meadowlark Bridge Over Rio Grande? By Jeff Radford, Corrales Comment
• Sandoval County Fair sets records By Steve Lucero, Agent, Sandoval County 4H Club

Community Bits

• Badminton clinics in Bernalillo
• Free peer-counseling training offered By Cindy Anderson, Program Manager, Sandoval Senior Connection
• UNM campus in Rio Rancho approved in principle

Placitas Community Center

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

EcoBeat

• Placitas Recycling Center vandalized By Robin Brandin
• Trash or treasure? Frecycle.
• LPA invites you to join in September events By Lolly Jones
• New Mexico guzzlers provide water to wildlife

Fire and Rescue

• PVFB thanks Placitas residents for support; fire volunteers needed By Bud Brinkerhoff
• Local EMT Winnie Maggiore recognized for twenty years of service

Law Enforcement

• Davis appointed to judgeship
• 13th Judicial District Court announces new Web site
• Bound for Success plans self-defense classes for women
• Taos con man gets 117 years

Night Skies

• Save our skies
• September 2006 Night Sky By Charlie Christmann

Sandoval Arts

• Signpost featured artist of the month
  C. E. Frappier Portrait Studio and Gallery to open in Placitas By Bill Diven
• “Purple–Orange–Green” to open at Beautiful Spaces gallery
• New Mexico Bead Society plans Albuquerque-area bead crawl
• Duende Poetry Series to hold seventh reading at Anasazi Fields By JB Bryan
• Rio Grande Children’s Chorale now holding auditions
• Placitas Artists Series launches season with Helios Quartet Reunion By Jackie Ericksen
• Calling all parents, artists, and scientists By Linda Hughes
• Range Café opens new wine shop, gift store, and art and furniture gallery
• Baroque to sound in Corrales
• Corrales art associations open membership beyond Corrales
• Gigi coming to the Adobe Theater
• Chamber Music Albuquerque presents 66th season

The Gauntlet

• Your letters and comments to the editor

Schoolbag

• ALA president-elect gives Placitas library the thumbs-up By Judy Labovitz
• Placitas Library’s Summer Reading Challenge a success, preschool story time up next By Nancy Guist
• Preschool story time

Time Off

• A river odyssey By Ty Belknap
• Two weeks in the West By Staff, High Country News
• Heard around the West By Betsy Marston. High Country News