Taos Bypass Faces Long, Costly Road to Progress
After more than two decades, Taos weighs a north south bypass with three route options. Costs per mile have more than tripled since 1987, with a four lane project valued around 1.9 million dollars per mile by 1988. Environmental reviews, hearings, and federal funding loom before construction can start, while residents split over a southerly route favored by business and environmental groups. A local planner notes any approved bypass will converge on Mesa Road, and a persistent critic urges doing it right even if it takes years.
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Taos
Mesa Road
Highway Department
Taos Faces Choice Between Farming and Mining Way
Kathy Bowhnury argues Taos must decide if it will expand mineral extraction or preserve land. She cites global and national energy plans, criticizes James Watt, urges environmental petitions, and promotes solar and wind as alternatives while urging continued traditional land stewardship.
Letter to Senator Pate Dortenial on senior citizen fairness
A Taos News reader writes about the Reagan administration's impact on seniors, defining a senior as someone who paid Social Security for decades under FICA and suffers conditions such as arthritis cancer ulcers high blood pressure diabetes deafness or blindness, calling for action against perceived injustices.
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Pate Dortenial
Taos News
Letter from Taos News reader on Social Security and mercy sleep
Cleofes Vigil of San Cristobal denounces Social Security Medicare acts, mocks senior citizens, and proposes a mercy sleep program for the elderly to save funds. He cites Reagan era defense spending and accuses doctors and hospitals of profiteering, urging drastic action to end welfare for seniors. The letter claims NM School of Mines links inauthentic grad's identity.
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Mercy
MSSC
Reagan
Cleofes Vigil
San Cristobal
Seventh Grade New Mexico History Mural Thanks Taos Leaders
Taos teacher Adolfo Martinez thanks Supt Leonda Serna and school board members for confidence in the project at Enos Garcia Mid School. He also thanks principal Mario Barela, Title VII coordinator Oelides Tenorio, and Dr George Oterro for grant support. He praises his sixth period class for a 90 square foot mural and urges pride in students and parents.
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New Mexico
Supt
Leonda Serna
Mario Barela
Enos Garcia
Oelides Tenorio
George Oterro
Las Palomas
Adolfo Martinez Taos
Public apology over front page misprint and juvenile case mixup
The Taos News apologizes for a front page error that transposed headlines about a juvenile case and a separate rape case. Charges surrounding the rape were dropped weeks earlier. the juvenile pled guilty to probation revocation in exchange for dismissal of rape charges.
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Frances Vigil
Family Taos
Springer
The
Taos News
Olympians Thank Taos Supporters for Olympic Team
Taos County ABC Special Olympic athletes mailed gratitude to Taos Lions Club Taos Knights of Columbus and Kiwanis Club of Taos for funding 12 athletes to the state games in Albuquerque June 5 to 7. Athletes competed in track and field and Taos County ARC received the Traveling plaque for best presentation.
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ABC
Taos Lions Club
Taos Knights of Columbus
Kiwanis Club of
Taos
Albuquerque
Orlando Salazar
Taos reviewer urged to focus on performance not credentials
Israel Stein argues that a music critic should describe the performance directly, praise the praiseworthy and condemn the unworthy, avoiding extensive theory or biographical excess. He urges Taos readers to judge by sights and sounds rather than credentials.
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Lucy Hentosh
Taos
Israel Stein Taos
Sponsoring Artists at Work Echoes Old Valley Art Colony
A reminiscence on inviting artists to paint in public spaces to boost business. The speaker recalls a Texas buyer who purchased a large canvas, its eventual donation to the Dallas Museum of Art, and a planned New York show that faced Texas loan restrictions. Ralph Cardenas Fraga.
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Fine Arts Museum
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Dallas Museum
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