Victim's mother bitter at plea bargain
Frances Vigil, mother of Richard Vigil, recalls the last moments with her son before his 1985 murder in Tres Ritos. Richard Edwards, newly arrived from North Carolina, pleaded guilty to second degree murder 13 months after the killing and faces up to seven years under a plea deal.
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Kate McGraw
Dickie
Flavio
Richard
Dickie” Vigil
Santa Fe
Tres Ritos
Rock Wall
Richard Edwards
Taos County
North Carolina
Edwards
Vigil
New Mexico State
New Mexico
Frances
Flavio Vigil
Sammy Quintana
County to cut hours to 32 with four month plan
County workers faced a 20 percent pay cut and 32 hour weeks for four months to close a 400000 shortfall. Sheriff deputies, ambulance crews and three reassessment staff exempt. four road staff laid off. County commissioners vetoed a one day Friday off, opting for staggered days and 5 day courthouse week.
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Judy Romero
Samuel O. Montoya
Taos approves $8 million Don Fernando Hotel project
Taos Town Council backed a Planning and Zoning recommendation to approve the Don Fernando Hotel planned unit development. The 181 room Pueblo style complex on 7.3 acres will include a restaurant, lounge, tennis courts, and a pool with cabana. Construction begins late September with completion targeted for summer 1987, with Spectrum Hotels of Denver to manage and a local general manager to engage in community activities.
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Don Fernando
Paseo Sur
Richard Hamilton
Spectrum Hotels, Inc
Denver
Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce
Angel Fire Progress edition profiles newest New Mexico municipality
This week's Angel Fire Progress feature examines New Mexico's newest incorporated area. The report outlines local governance plans and community updates as residents adjust to municipal status.
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Angel Fire
New Mexico
Missing Rio Grande rafter body found near Pilar
A commercial rafter found the body of Allen E B McKay, a Los Alamos computer analyst, Friday around 12 30 p m. after a raft overturned on a Taos Box run at Rock Garden. The death is the year’s first rafting fatality with a large search by Taos County SAR and BLM concluding near Pilar seven miles downstream.
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Embudo
Los Alamos
Allen EB. McKay
al Gummo
Dixon Fire and Rescue Department
McKay
Taos Box
House Rock
Rio Grande River
Rock Garden
Gummo
Pilar
Taos
Raymond Piper
New Mexico
Michael Duggan
Duggan
Taos County
Rio Arriba
Bureau of Land Management
State Police
Dixon Volunteer Fire Department
Adobe Whitewater Club
Rio Grande Rapid Transit
Robert ‘Bear’ Blumm
Siripoom
Taos News wins second in national contest for large weeklies
The Taos News earned a second place in the national contest for large weekly newspapers from the National Federation of Press Women at their Seattle convention. Reporter Judy Romero won two prizes, a first for the editorial County as a business and a second for a feature photograph at the Taos Animal Shelter, marking the paper’s sixth straight top award.
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The
Taos News
National Federation of Press Women
Seattle
Wash
Judy Romero
Taos Animial Shelter
Taos burglary gang busted with stereo parts found pastures
Police in Taos arrested four juveniles and one 18 year old, led by Gary Montoya of El Prado, after stereo components were found in Cause Pasture. The group confessed to 14 conspiracy to commit burglary, five commercial burglary counts, five larceny counts, and three criminal damage charges.
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Taos
Gary Montoya
el Prado
Jose Lucero
Lucero
Donald Montez
Set
Manny Trujillo
Montoya
Las Lunas driver pleads guilty to homicide by vehicle
Larry Orona, a Las Lunas truck driver, pleads no contest to homicide by vehicle and aggravated injury in a head on crash near Tres Piedras in October. Victim Lowell Carpenter, 21, of Alamosa died at the scene. his wife Kim Lyn was seriously injured. State recommends two year consecutive sentences.
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Larry Orona
Las Lunas
Tres Piedras
Lowell
Penter
Alamosa
Colo
Kim Lyn
Reward Offered For Vandalism at 114 La Serna Circle
Crimestoppers posts a 350 dollar reward for information leading to arrests and convictions of those involved in vandalizing a residence at 114 La Serna Circle on the night of June 16.
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Crimestoppers
Dalizing
la Serna Circle
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