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The Española School District took on 11 additional distribution sites for the Summer Food Service Program this year after Rio Arriba County stopped participating due to fiscal issues.
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Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jeremy Barnes did not disclose to the County that he had been the subject of an excessive force lawsuit during his time with the Grants Police Department, Sheriff’s Office Maj. Randy Sanches said in a June 10 interview.
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Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Barnes — who tased an Española Valley High School student in the chest three times on May 10 — never completed any of the training required for a school resource officer (SRO) in the Española School District.
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It was right after the fifth-period bell last October that Sebastian Montaño lay face down in the grass outside Alamogordo High School, screaming for his mother, as two police officers pinned him to the ground and thrust a Taser in his back.
Northern New Mexico College is significantly closer to creating a community college district with five local school districts.
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The New Mexico Attorney General is investigating and New Mexico Lt. Governor Howie Morales called for additional training for law enforcement after an article in last week’s Rio Grande SUN detailed how Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Barnes used a Taser on a 15-year-old Española Va…
An Española School District vehicle was stolen from the District Office on Hunter Street May 6, but none of the District’s employees noticed it was missing.
Española Valley High School Assistant Principal Veronica Dean filed a report with the Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office after an audit revealed over $53,000 of electronics were unaccounted for within the school.
When Lacey Romero takes the stage, she feels like nothing else matters.
A 15-year-old special education student at Española Valley High School was tased by Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Barnes on May 10, for allegedly failing to comply with a search.
The Española School District received its Fiscal Year 2018 audit Tuesday from the State Auditor’s Office, along with a whithering letter from State Auditor Brian Colón.
An Española Valley High School football player claimed he was sexually assaulted, but law enforcement was not notified until months after the initial complaint, a new report from Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Robert Vigil states.
The Española School District Board approved April 17 on a 4-1 vote to extend Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez’s contract through June 30, 2020, with the option for either party to cancel the contract by Jan. 31, 2020, if a new superintendent is hired.
The Española School District Board approved April 17 on a 4-1 vote to extend Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez’s contract through June 30, 2020, with the option for either party to cancel the contract by Jan. 31, 2020, if a new superintendent is hired.
The final two students in the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative Spanish Spelling Bee sparred for 27 rounds before a winner could be declared in the competition.
Northern New Mexico College President Rick Bailey will present his quarterly state of the College address at 3:30 p.m., April 3 in the Performing Arts Center on the Española campus.
While several high schools in Rio Arriba County show a gentle slope upwards on graduation rates, others are moving the wrong direction or have bobbed up and down in the past few years.
Four new Northern New Mexico College regents took the oath of office March 22, together representing current and former Northern students and leaders on the Board of Regents.
For five hours on Sunday, visitors to the Pueblo de Abiquiú Library and Cultural Center did something many people have not had the chance to do since elementary school: Listen to someone read them a story.
While a bill to create a statewide Rural Library Endowment is headed to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s desk for her signature, the appropriation to start the endowment was gutted in the last days of the legislative session.
Instead of focusing on what he was not able to accomplish during his first legislative session, District 40 Rep. Joseph Sanchez, D-Alcalde, said he is happy with what he was able to get done.
New Mexico House District 41 Rep. Susan Herrera, D-Embudo, said she foresees a “Rio Arriba Renaissance” following the 2019 legislative session, which saw a $1 billion budget surplus and a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives that made it relatively easy for her to achieve her goals.
The New Mexico Senate has unanimously approved the appointment of two new regents to the Northern New Mexico College Board of Regents.
It’s been over a year and no charges have been filed against Henrietta Trujillo. The former Northern New Mexico College finance director resigned her position in March 2017 and provided her supervisor with a box of evidence detailing how she allegedly kept over $200,00 from the College.
A substitute bill to create a Rural Library Endowment Fund has been passed by the Senate and is making its way through House committees.
Española Middle School was put on a lockdown on Feb. 13, the fourth lockdown since Española School District students returned from Christmas break on Jan. 9, Middle School Principal Julie Gutierrez said.
The Northern New Mexico College Foundation will no longer have an executive director position until the Foundation can prove to College officials that it is upholding a prior agreement to provide as much scholarship money to students as it spends on salaries for its staff.
Superintendent Michael Lovato has resigned from the Mesa Vista School District, according to a Feb. 6 letter sent via text to Mesa Vista School Board members, citing unethical conduct by certain members of the Board, among personal reasons.
During the 2018-2019 school year, school districts around the state were awarded $65,238,725 in federal Impact-Aid (IA) funding.
Sen. John A. Sapien, District 9, (Bernalillo and Sandoval) has introduced a bill in the New Mexico Senate that would significantly change the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) – requiring New Mexicans to pay substantially more for electronic copies of public records.
In 2017, Northern New Mexico College after years of fiscal mismanagement, embezzlement and every other kind of “-ment” received 66 separate findings from the Auditor, including 18 repeat findings.
Punitive graduation requirements implemented under former Gov. Susanna Martinez can still affect school districts around the state, despite Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s bold executive order suspending the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test and lofty…
As the partial federal government shutdown entered its 25th day, tremors were starting to be felt in Española’s educational institutions in the most obscure and unexpected ways.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham came out of the gate Jan. 3 by suspending the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) standardized test and the New Mexico Public Education Department's questionable teacher evaluation system, fulfilling two of her major …
With an expected $1.2 billion surplus, the 2019 New Mexico legislative session could prove to be quite the spectacle in regard to funding and overhauling programs that are in desperate need of a face lift, especially in education.
Española School District Superintendent Bobbie Guttierez said the District began its ambitious focus on the development of a District-wide music and fine arts program in August 2018, spearheaded by Deputy Superintendent Denise Johnston.
One in eight children experience ill-treatment. Of those, over half that are reported to law enforcement are screened out. Of those that are investigated, between 20 to 40 percent are actually substantiated, said Dr. Katherine Courtney, co-author of “Anna, Age Eight: The data-driven preventi…
In O. Henry’s 1905 Christmas tale “The Gift of the Magi,” he focuses on a young married couple, who, like most fledgling couples, don’t have a cent to their names.
At birth, the average size of a baby’s brain is about a quarter of the size of the average adult brain, according to First Things First, an early childhood development program in Arizona.
Nothing can possibly be more adorable than a room full of kittens and puppies frolicking around and doing every possible YouTube worthy trick in the book.
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The Rio Grande SUN spent much of 2018 covering the Jicarilla Apache Nation, in the northwest reaches of Rio Arriba County. From external pressure from state education officials over failing schools, to internal conflict over embezzlement and nepotism, SUN reporters kept readers informed in a…
The midterm elections, especially in the New Mexico race for governor, saw a battle waged over the best way to recruit and retain teachers.
A traditional student, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, is a post-secondary student entering college that is between the ages of 18 and 22 who enter the collegiate realm directly after high school.
Change is not a bad thing, said Española School District Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez in her State of the Schools address on Oct. 24.
Los Niños Kindergarten School students came to the Española School District central office on Halloween for sweet treats.
It is a strange thing to see a jet black stretch limousine cruise down State Road 68 north toward Velarde.
While officials at Northern New Mexico College work to improve the college’s reputation, it is the work and recognition of its student body that will truly improve its image.
Homelessness is a very real, very present aspect of life in Española, so much so that it has become a fixture of sorts, part of the general scenery of the daily commute and therefore, easily dismissed.
Pizza 9 GM works hard for franchise, donates locally
An A a day keeps the New Mexico Public Education Department away, at least in the nightmarish way that prompts most district administrators out of a sound sleep at night.
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