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Newspaper
Taos News
Location
Taos, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 2002
Page
1
Beloved local artist Ila McAfee is remembered in a retrospective exhibit at Robert L. Parsons Fine Art. The Tempo Page 24 notes the event, offering a focused look at her contributions and lasting influence in the regional art scene.
Snow depth ranges six to ten inches with packed powder conditions and machine grooming. Trails remain open for 21 kilometers. Headlamp Snowshoe Tour set for 7 p.m. Saturday December 14 as conditions persist.
Snow depth midmountain minus 26 inches and minus 14 inches reported. Surface conditions are machined and groomed. Seven of 57 trails and four of seven lifts open, opening Friday December 13. A separate update shows five of 40 trails and one of three lifts open, effective today December 12.
Taos Ski Valley reports 24 hour snowfall at minus zero inches with midmountain snow depth at 34 inches. Seventy one of seventy two trails are open and ten of twelve lifts are operating. Terrain remains open from top to bottom on both front and back sides, with Ridge open.
Arturo El Romero 71 owner of Art's Service Station Llano Quemado died Sunday December 8. Delphina Martinez 77 of Valdez served as mayordomo Holy Trinity Catholic Church Arroyo Seco died December 2. Louis F Fernandez 88 Taos High School graduate and longtime US Soil Conservation Service employee died Saturday December 7.
Four departmental sections and bulletins are listed in the BB volume issue with no further context or details provided. The OCR fragment shows brief cataloging wording rather than a full article or event description.
The Environment Department set tougher rules three years after adoption, requiring plastic lining and test wells at landfills. The costly standards pushed Taos County and nearby towns pueblos to form the Taos Intergovernmental Council and Cordova to finance a more environmentally friendly facility, uniting multiple communities since 1988.
Northern New Mexico growers like Embudo Valley Organics question the national organic standard. They warn agribusiness firms may profit at the expense of local, small scale farming while criticizing diluting the meaning of organic. New Mexico had stricter rules before the federal standard.
Holy Cross Hospital Taos staff face grim overdoses and violent revivals daily. Nurse Carol Blakey, a 20 year veteran, recalls October and November 2000 seeing 24 drug overdoses and 29 alcohol related cases. Weekend nights bring the worst detritus of party culture and young teens seeking alcohol as escape.
Taos Municipal Schools face a $41,000 bill to run their Feb 4 2003 election under a county policy to charge other entities. The tally covers $29,000 staff time, $8,000 poll workers, $1,700 machine rental, and $1,450 transport. School leader Mare Space seeks compromise after noting similar districts pay far less.
Eighth Judicial District Judge Peggy Nelson ruled Tafoya did not prove jury bias from an alternate juror and denied a new trial. Tafoya, serving life for the April 2001 death of Edward Duran, was convicted November 19, 2001 of depraved murder and related offenses after dragging Duran’s motorcycle 173 feet. An appeal contends insufficient evidence supported first degree murder and that Tafoya was too intoxicated to form depraved indifference.
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