Taos Skating Rink Won’t Open Next Season Amid Center Delays
Taos town officials announced the Taos Ice Arena likely won’t operate this winter as plans for a $1.6 million youth and family center shift to Kit Carson Park. Center options include a 20,000 square-foot ice rink with classrooms and event space, while existing mats at the arena are deemed unusable and costly to replace. Community hockey coaches urge keeping the rink running until a long term plan is set, highlighting youth benefits and ongoing practice for state competition.
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Taos
Kit Carson Park
Gus Cordova
Cordova
Youth and Family Center
Gary Schiff
Mites
Schiff
Fred Peralta
Taos Junior High Spring Fling raises funds with dunk tank
Taos Junior High hosts its annual Spring Fling on Friday May 30 featuring pulls dunks and food to raise money for campus clubs and the Spring Fling Committee. Tickets cost 25 cents and attendees can spend them on activities while the dunk tank, run by assistant principal Rodney Litke and staff, proved a big draw as the event benefits the Spanish Club Special Education and other programs.
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Taos
Rey Quintana
Quintana
Rodney Litke
Litke
Special Education
Taos Junior
Valentin Vasquez
Austin Leard
Taos High students finish HIVAIDS mural in record time
Five Taos High School teens created a large mural titled Open Your Eyes to HIV/AIDS at the Taos Business Park. Local artist George Chacon and Santa Fe Mountain Center organizer Peter Stephenson guided a two week project aimed at teen leadership and peer HIV/AIDS education. Elizabeth Goetz and Gwyneth Hall contributed most, illustrating a global message about the impact of HIV on all people and families.
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Taos High School
Taos Business Park
George Chacon
Peter Stephenson
Santa Fe Mountain Center
Chacon
Elizabeth Goetz
Gwyneth Hall
Annie King
Tiffany Vigil
Adrian DesGeorges
Goetz
Hall
Spill trail from five year old diesel spill seen in Taos valley
Taos Ski Valley residents report ongoing diesel spill remnants in TSV wetlands. A program manager, Brian Wirtz of New Mexico Environment Department, says the contamination dates from a five year old spill that resurfaces each spring as wetlands self clean.
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Taos Ski Valley
Surface Water Quality Bureau
The
New Mexico Environment Department
Brian Wirtz
Taos police face officer shortages as veterans retire
Taos Police Chief Neil Curran says the department is two officers short after recent retirements. Abram Anaya left for Santa Fe Police with a higher salary on May 5, and a veteran returned to Arizona with tribal gaming expansion offering a raise and upward mobility. Ricardo Medina retired in February and Silviano Archuleta and Tommy Gallegos also left.
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Taos
Neil Curran
Curran
Abram Anaya
Santa Fe Police Department
Dames Dacksun
Arizona
Tribal Police
Ricardo Medina
Silviano Archuleta
Tommy Gallegos
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