Rio Rancho High Class of 2012 Looks Back and Moves Forward
Rio Rancho High School seniors reflect on four years of change and growth from elementary roots to the opening of a new high school. They recall friendships and rivalries, pep rallies, and memorable moments, urging peers to value moments, stand tall, and pursue their own paths as they graduate as one Ram family.
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Rio Rancho High School
Rio Rancho
Larry Rodarte
Isabel Hromas
Rio Rancho Observer
Librarian wins major Boston Globe Horn Book Award
Vannda Nelson, Esther Bone Memorial Library children's services librarian, wins the 2012 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for fiction for No Crystal Stair a documentary novel about her great great uncle Lewis Michaux founder of the National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem. The June 7 announcement came at Book Expo America in New York.
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Vannda Nelson
Esther Bone Memorial Library
Lewis Michaux
Harlem Bookseller
New York
National Memorial
Harlem
Carolrhoda Books Lab
Library Corner Tracing genealogy online
Rio Rancho Public Library offers online genealogy databases for home or library access. HeritageQuest provides census images from 1790 to 1930, Revolutionary War pension records, and more with login by library card. Ancestry is available from Loma Colorado and Esther Bone libraries. familysearch.org also offers extensive records. For help, call Loma Colorado 891-5013 ext 3033 or Esther Bone 891-5012 ext 3128.
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Rio Rancho Public Library
HeritageQuest
United States
Freedman’s Bank
Ancestry
Loma Colorado
Esther Bone
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Familysearch.org
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the Observer
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Michaux
New York Amsterdam News
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T Ann Lewis
Observer
Boston Globe
Tracing Genealogy Online
North America
Pccmovies.com
Madagascar
Prometheus
Avengers
Abe Lincoln
Brave
Early Bird
Rowan
Premiere Parkway
Southern & Unser
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