Principal Affentranger Leads Greenhouse Ribbon Event
Cleveland High School principal Scott Affentranger speaks at the Thursday ribbon cutting for the new greenhouse. He recalls his vision of urban agriculture education, noting the site was previously weeds and dirt as the project opens.
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Scott Affentranger
Cleveland High School
Rio Rancho proposes budget funding police cars and raises
City Manager James Jimenez outlines a FY2013 budget featuring twelve new police vehicles a new ambulance and an animal control vehicle plus a 2 percent across the board pay raise for all city employees. The plan keeps tax and fee levels steady and notes 84 unfilled non public safety positions frozen since 2009 with water and wastewater rates rising 3.3 percent based on the CPI. Public statements emphasize a balanced five year General Fund plan and a recovering local economy with rising revenues and fewer foreclosures, while the next fiscal year runs July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013.
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James Jimenez
City of
Rio Rancho
Jimenez
Global Insight
Peter Wells
Tom Swisstack
Intel spurs NM economy with 5.6B in local spending
Intel Corporation spent 5.6 billion with New Mexico businesses in 2011, about twice its prior yearly average, while donating over 650000 to education and non profits across the state. Of 349 new local hires, 121 were NM residents at hire, with 63 percent local hires since 1995. The company will pay 100000 to boost schoolwork initiatives after missing its 60 percent NM hiring goal in 2011. Environmental upgrades include LED lighting and photovoltaic projects.
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Bernalillo Intel Corporation
New Mexico
Intel
Commission
Darryl Madalena
Shipley
Brian Bashap
Young students create operas in Santa Fe residency
Eighty to one hundred elementary students from Colinas del Norte Cielo Azul Vista Grande and Ernest Stapleton schools participate in a 14 week Santa Fe Opera residency at Rio Rancho High School. They develop story lines poetry rhythm rhyme music and choreography to perform their own operas starting 6 p.m. Wednesday. Admission is free.
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Santa Fe Opera
Colinas del Norte
Cielo Azul
Vista Grande
Ernest Stapleton
Rio Rancho High School Performing Arts Center
Santa Fe Opéra Arts Integration Partnership
Comanager
Becca Holmes
Marla Chrisman
Rio Rancho
Holmes
Rio Rancho Public Schools
Liliana Niday
Liliana
Tori
Argen Duncan
Casey Mraz
Rio Rancho Observer Corrects Sena Address Error
The Rio Rancho Observer notes a potential error in its Crime Report listing Joseph P. Sena aged 45 charged with marijuana possession. Initial report cited 4233 Foxwood Trail. current police records show the same address, while a 2010 report lists 4133 Foxwood Trail. The paper invites reader feedback via staff box contacts or the provided phone and email.
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Rio Rancho Observer
Joseph P. Sena
Sena
Foxwood Trail
Rio Rancho
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