Parents and children share education at camp
Lee Ocasia, 8, from El Rito, attends the Family Learning Vacation for handicapped children with his parents Maybel and Lizandro at Camp Summer Life near Petiasco. The two three-and-a-half day sessions run June 8–11 to train and support families in rural New Mexico, enabling them to act as their child’s case managers.
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Lee
Lee Ocasia
el Rito
Maybel and
Lizandro
Jeanelle Pasternack
Taos
Pasternack
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Teri Roth
Taos board weighs tough discipline for drug abuse
Taos school board considers a policy to expel students found abusing alcohol or drugs on school property or at school events. Ignacio Peralta urged strict discipline while Superintendent Abeyta called for a public hearing before action. The no drug use contract includes four penalties from arbitration referral to long suspensions and possible expulsion for trafficking.
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Taos
Ignacio Peralta
Peralta
Richard Chavez
Eddie Abeyta
Los Alamos
Alcoholism agency may replace Sangre de Cristo
State officials confirmed Sangre de Cristo Mental Health Center contract will not be renewed for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The agency serves Santa Fe Rio Arriba Taos Mora and San Miguel counties and faces a $2.3 million budget loss. Health secretary Maralyn Budke cited staff turnover inadequate plan to correct deficiencies and record keeping issues as key factors.
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Santa FE
Sangre de Cristo Mental Health Center
Sangre de Cristo
Rio Arriba
Taos
Mora
San Miguel
Health and Environmental Department
Maralyn Budke
HED
Budke
Hitchhiker jailed for rape in Taos County case
A 25 year old Pefiasco man, John D. Sandoval, is charged with kidnapping criminal sexual penetration and criminal sexual contact after allegedly raping a Taos County woman on June 1. He was arraigned in Magistrate Judge Betty Gonzales' court with bond set at 20 000 cash or 40 000 property. An DA investigator said a motion to revoke Sandoval's probation on a prior felony is being filed and disclosed no further details.
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Pefiasco
Taos County
John D. Sandoval
Betty Gonzales
Joe Ortiz
Sandoval
Peniasco
Truchas
Ortiz
Fred Martinez
Taos Man Arrested in Albuquerque in Sexual Assault Case
David Bolough also known as Juan Duran, 24, was arrested in Albuquerque on a Santa Fe County warrant. A Pojoaque woman said two men visited her home March 6 about vehicles, then one returned, entered her home and raped her while she brushed her teeth. The woman identified Borough from photos and a separate affidavit notes he sold a stolen serape worth over $20,000 to an art dealer. Bond set at $100,000. Borough arraigned June 14 on a charge of receiving stolen property.
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Taos
Albuquerque
David Bolough
Juan Duran
Duke City
Santa Fe County
Borough
Santa Fe
Crash kills Cerro man in weekend rollover
An 18 year old Cerro man identified as Frank A Quintana Jr was killed Saturday after losing control of his 1979 Pontiac on SR 378 between Cerro and SR 522. Police report say he was driving at high speed, the car left the road struck a fence and two cedar trees before overturning. He was thrown from the car and found beside it at 5 30 p m Quintana died at Holy Cross Hospital after transport by Questa ambulance.
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Cerro
Frank A Quintana Jr
Holy Cross Hospital
Quintana
Questa
Holy Cross
Taos Wrecker Driver Killed In Hit And Run
Louie Cohn, 39, a wrecker driver for Levi Cohn's Salvage Yard, was fatally struck while hooking up a police impound at Paseo Sur near Peralta Laundry early Sunday. Taos Police pursued a suspected DWI driver. a 1973-74 Ford possibly involved left the scene. Cohn, a Vietnam veteran and Army veteran, was to be buried with full military honors in Santa Fe on Wednesday.
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Taosman
Paseo Sur
Louie Cohn
Levi Cohn
Taos
Jose Lucero
B.G. Medina
Peralta
Medina
Floyd Ayala
Cohn
Ayala
Lucero
Colin
Floyd
Louie
Billy Vigil
Levi
Helen Cohn
Vietnam
National Cemetery
Santa Fe
Picuris plans hotel in Santa Fe with $10 million loan
Picuris Pueblo awaits a decision from the Bureau of Indian Affairs on a $10 million loan guarantee to develop a hotel at Paseo de Peralta and Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe. The project, led by Santa Fe developers and tribal members would create about 60 part time and 10 full time jobs.
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Picuris Pueblo
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Santa Fe
Paseo de Peralta
Cerrillos Road
Joe Schepps
Manhattan
William Zeckendorf
Earl Potter
Inside IT FITS YOU health and fitness section
This week's health and fitness feature covers aerobics to water sports in Tempe. Weather notes Taos reached a high of 92 on Monday June 19 and a low of 40 on Thursday June 15. Forecasts for June 22 to 24 call for fair mornings and nights with partly cloudy afternoons and evenings.
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Tempe
Taos
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