Taos County Eyes Top Priority Gravel Pit Remediation
The EID backs proposals reducing landfills to ease an emergency waste crisis in Taos County. Environmental Control Inc. of El Prado, led by Robert Haspel, recently signed a $129,000 yearly Santa Fe County contract to build and operate eight transfer stations. Taos may pay up to Santa Fe prices, with current Sanco payments of $10,000 monthly for the airport landfill and $10,000 in gravel revenue unused due to limited equipment.
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Taos County
Fernandez
Robert Haspel
Environmental Control Inc
el Prado
Santa Fe County
Haspel
Santa Fe
Sanco
Community urged to keep discusssions open after safety workshop
Taos County officials and local groups led a parent workshop following a student session at Taos Junior High on May 10. Principal Rey Quintana urged community involvement to address high-risk student issues, saying parents are deeply concerned and that ongoing effort depends on widespread participation.
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James Lucero
Paul Mascarefias
Toby Miera
Taos County Sheriffs Office
Pat Fernandez
Amigos Unidos
Liz Schwartz
Martinez
Rey Quintana
Quintana
Jake Trujillo
Florence Quintana
Worshop
Census 1990 start delayed to April next year
The national census will begin on April 1 next year. Printing has started on hundreds of millions of questionnaires to be delivered in late March 1990. The operation will employ about 480,000 people nationwide and cost roughly 10 dollars per person counted.
Taos School Board agrees on move for ninth graders
The Taos Municipal School Board approves a plan to move ninth graders to Taos High School and sixth graders to Taos Junior High by fall 1991, while keeping Arroyo Hondo and Arroyo Seco schools and selling excess properties. A bond is needed for new space and renovations, with a call for avoidance of Feb 1990 mill levy votes to protect the bond.
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Taos High School
Taos
Abeyta
Ignacio Peralta
Saints family plans better gear after 12 mile Taos hike
Graves, a Plainview Texas urologist, spoke of teaching his children to stay put if lost after his son Chris, who had no food, was found during a rescue near Taos following a 12 mile hike on May 28. Rescuers traced a mewing sound but found footprints not his. Chris was bruised but okay and treated at Holy Cross Hospital before a celebratory stop at Tres Ritos cabin.
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Holy Cross Hospital
Plainview
Texas
Lance
Taos
Dixon
Holy Cross
Tres Ritos
Las Vegas
West Texas
Rescue of a boy in Pecos wilderness a near miracle
Jim Dixon, a writer and firefighter from La Lama, recounts rescuing Christopher Graves from a frozen stream at 11,800 feet after a late night search. He credits divine intervention and the crew’s swift action, stating luck was surpassed by a grace beyond logic.
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Dixon
Christopher Graves
la Lama
Pecos
Christopher
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