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Boil Water Advisory for Vermejo Park Headquarters Water System Issued

Santa Fe, NM (AP News) — The New Mexico Environment Department’s Drinking Water Bureau has issued boil water advisories including Vermejo Park Headquarters Water System. The advisories were issued Thursday, August 27. 2015 after E.coli bacteriological contamination was detected in repeat drinking water samples. Vermejo Park Headquarters Water System serves approximately…

Raton Teacher Pay Catches State Eye

Special to KRTN Multi-Media The results of the state’s first venture into teacher pay for performance offer up what could be a valuable lesson in quantity vs. quality when it comes to where the dollars should go. And the New Mexico Public Education Department is paying attention. Of the six…

Recoil Article Slams Raton

  In a recent blurb published in “Recoil” a shooters magazine a recent unnamed visitor to Raton royally blasted the City of Raton.    The blurb came to the attention of City Manager Scott Berry who then shared the article with KRTN as well as his response to the blurb.…

Las Animas County right on budget 

by Bill KnowlesTRINIDAD — Hitting the midpoint in expenditures for the year, the Las Animas County Board of County Commissioners heard from 12 department heads for a mid-year budget review.  They offered praise and advice to the dozen supervisors who actually oversee the spending of taxpayer generated funds. “We have…

Starkville started it all

by Nancy Christofferson TRINIDAD —   When people go looking for the old coal mining town of Starkville, Colorado, if they’re not paying attention they might find instead the Trinidad WalMart parking lot just off Interstate 25. Starkville was one of Las Animas County’s earliest coal mines.  The first workings were…

Thinking outside the box at RE-1 Generating income, teacher recruitment and retention

by Mary Jo TesitorWALSENBURG — On the evening of Tuesday, August 11, Terri Patrick moderated a town-hall meeting of Re-1 School Board, staff, and citizens who gathered in the Washington School auditorium to brainstorm for answers to two prickly questions:  How can we generate a significant amount of new money for…

Dreams, art and healing

by Paula M. Manini TRINIDAD — Because of her “Shame to Pride” art project, Stephanie Calvert has come to grips with her former life in Thatcher, a small community north of Trinidad.   When Calvert was ten years old, her parents moved the family from San Diego to escape the…

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