Sign code enforcement stirs town backlash in Pueblo
Town manager Gus Cordova halted new code enforcer Joe Ortiz after merchants in Paseo del Pueblo Norte protested Ortiz action to remove outdoor displays. Ortiz labeled rugs windsocks and signs unlawful outdoor advertising under sign nuisance and zoning codes from the 1970s, triggering calls for a meeting and a temporary reprieve to let business continue.
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Gus Cordova
Joe Ortiz
Ortiz
Central Business District
Paseo del Pueblo Norte
Marcine Hughes
Pueblo Pottery
Cordova
Planning Department
Allen Vigil
Joe
Veterans pack AF ceremony at Angel Fire for Memorial Day
Hundreds gathered on Valle Verde hill near Angel Fire for Memorial Day services at the DAV Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Gov Bruce King and Gen William Westmoreland spoke as cold wind and rain folded over the crowd, urging remembrance of the living and the dead and a renewed national responsibility.
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Angel Fire
Valle Verde
DAV Vietnam Veterans Memorial
DAV
Bruce King
William C. Westmoreland
King
Splice breaks plunge Plaza into eight hour outage
Ledoux Street and north and west Plaza residents faced an eight hour power outage Monday May 25 caused by a splice break in older Bent Street Camino de la Placita wiring. The Taos News production team worked through deadlines as cable service failed for most homes. A Century Cable TV booster on Ledoux Street failed with the outage. Power returned by about 9 45 p m. Alfredo Dominguez and Leroy Gonzales elected to Kit Carson Cooperative board with 317 and 323 votes respectively.
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Ledoux Street
Ernesto Gonzales
Kit Carson Electric. Cooperative
Bent Street
Camino de la Placita
Taos News
Aos
Joe Yosten
Century Cable TV
Yosten
Ranchitos
Gonzales
Onzales
Kit Carson Cooperative
Alfredo Dominguez
Leroy Gonzales
Dominguez
Jose G. Romero
Julio Rodarte Jr
Felix Duran
Fragmented School Note About Teaching Methods
A garbled page fragment discusses teaching methods and class topics, mentioning Whitehorse and SOAP meat, with references to plastering walls and a philosophy of hands on learning. The readable parts hint at educational guidance and classroom practices but lack clear context or complete facts.
Three die in holiday traffic in New Mexico
Taos County residents Eusebio Griego Jr and another man perished in weekend crashes while an Albuquerque man died near Periasco. Griego, a National Guardsman, was a passenger when a five ton diesel truck overturned on a rain slick I-25 south of Santa Fe as a convoy returned from Fort Bliss.
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Taos County
Albuquerque
Periasco
Taos
Eusebio Griego Jr
Santa Fe
Roman A. Pacheco
Tom Koch
the Guard
Griego
Pacheco
National Guard
Fort Bliss
Texas
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Laughing Horse
Treasure Island
Tio Vivo
Southwest Drum and Moccasin
Veterans Pack
Edward Baca
Westmoreland
Taos High School
Comne
Sandie Witbeck
Taosesios
NASA
Vassar College
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plaza
Ihe
Whyst
Een
Tri
Mana
Atlan Margies
Kettie-Lynn Hall
Nure Christine Kious
Lorca Hart
Koch
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