Rio Rancho schools approve budget amid looming state cuts
The Rio Rancho Public Schools Board passed next year’s budget, adding 25 new teachers financed by growth funds, while warning of potential $5 million state cuts. Superintendent Sue Cleveland and district officials stressed reserves remain vital as health and liability insurance costs rise and per pupil funding falls, with JROTC to be replaced by an Army program at Cleveland High and startup costs estimated around $100,000.
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Plan to stop Gulf oil spill devised by Laughlin
Steven Laughlin, a semiconductor field service engineer for Intel, proposes a locking collar with a brass sealed steel insert to seal the deepwater pipe from the Deepwater Horizon spill. The device uses jacking screws and a reduction gear to drive and seal the plug inside the leaking pipe.
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Rio Rancho
Christopher Ortiz
County restricts open burning in Sandoval County
Sandoval County broadens fire rules in unincorporated areas adopting an emergency ordinance banning open burning until conditions dry. The county has seen 74 wild land fires this year burning over 2500 acres with at least two out of control blazes daily amid extreme fire behavior, including the Cabazon fire and the Rio Fire in the Jemez Mountains.
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