Arroyo Seco, NM New Home Financing in New Mexico

The Taos Municipal School District gave new life to residents of Talpa and Arroyo Hondo Wednesday as it unanimously agreed to transfer former school properties into the care of Taos County for renovation into ...

From its infancy in the Baroque period to modern day, chamber music has been a reflection of the advancements in technology and the society that produced it, in effect creating new tonalities and textures.

Taos Ski Valley reported this morning that while Taos dealt with chilly winds and momentary snow, they were experiencing full-on winter.

"We had near blizzard conditions this morning about 10 a.m.," TSV employee Seth Bullington said in an e-mail Wednesday (Nov. 5).

Chef Jim Schlar baum, instructor for UNM-Taos' culinary arts program, is teaching the impossible: How to cut an onion without tearing up.

Investigative reporter Greg Palast joined Robert Kennedy Jr. this month to write a Rolling Stone magazine article warning voters about a nearly four-year campaign to "Block the Vote" that would prevent eligible voters from casting ballots in the 2008 election.

By Andy Dennsion Friday, October 24, 2008 2:11 PM MDT

For 30 hours earlier this month, five river otters and two humans sped from Washington state to New Mexico - the air conditioner blasting and in complete silence.

While keeping the newly captured otters cool and hydrated in their crates, the two drivers from the USDA Wildlife Service also chose not to speak so that these wild, semi-aquatic mammals wouldn't assimilate anything human into their lives.

The sudden drop in temperatures in the last several day has been just what the snow doctor ordered for Taos Ski Valley.

Ski area crews have fired up snowmaking equipment in hopes of laying down a solid base on the beginner and intermediate runs before anticipated opening day, Nov. 28.

By Chandra Johnson Friday, September 26, 2008 5:33 PM MDT

A Taos man was taken to Holy Cross Hospital Friday (Sept. 26) after being attacked by a mountain lion.

Adam Wheat, 29, was taken to Holy Cross Hospital when Wheat asked one of his employees at Jack Wrap It to drive him.

The Municipal School Bond Election is tomorrow Tuesday, September 23rd. The Taos County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors voted unanimously to support this bond, and encourages you to vote YES.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will speak Thursday in Espanola.

Tickets for the event are free and will be available starting Tuesday at Obama campaign offices in northern New Mexico, including Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Taos and Raton.

Thursday's event begins on the Espanola Plaza at 12:30 p.m.

You wake up and review the weekend news in the NYT: Bank of American buys Merrill Lynch and Lehman Bros. is on the ropes. Giant financial institutions are sliding down the greased pole to join consumers in the trough, whose credit card and mortgage debt have risen like the waves stimulated by hurricane-force winds-due to what?

Global Warming? Nature's revenge? Does the story of Noah's Ark ring a bell? Greed? Do we turn to religion, science, or some other superstitious notion that allows us to ignore the natural limits imposed by the geo-physical world we live in now and forever? Karma rules. Apparently, even the banks have bottom lines not so dissimilar from the laws of physics.

How many people can say that they've been alive longer than New Mexico has been in the Union?

Up to Aug. 24, one lady living up on El Salto Road in Arroyo Seco could. Casimira (née Romero) Madrid was born March 24, 1903, which means she was almost 9 years old in 1912 when New Mexico became part of the United States of America.

Thanks to a $5,000 contribution from Taos County, dogs and cats in Arroyo Seco, Questa and Peasco can get spayed or neutered next month.

Now and again someone comes along who by their example conveys to younger people the ways of family and community love and respect. A few sometimes become a symbol of old-time values, even without seeking attention.

Such an individual was Solidea Martínez, 99, of Arroyo Seco, who touched many hearts, and though she has gone home, she will be long remembered. Martínez died Wednesday (July 30), undoubtedly in the arms of the Lord she loved and served throughout her life time.

Friday, August 8, 2008

Join Rivers & Birds for an artistic workshop celebration in honor of Earth! EARTH ALTARS. A workshop inspired by the ephemeral nature-based art of Andy Goldsworthy. Creating artistic forms from nature, we will celebrate our relationship with the natural world and through this process affirm our kinship with our Mother Earth.

By Flannery Burke (University Press of Kansas, 248 pages, $34.95)

The protagonist of Witter Bynner's misogynistic play of 1926 -- "Cake: An Indulgence" -- is a wealthy, oft-married woman, identified only as "the Lady," who seeks adventure, romance and pleasure in various exotic locales. It was well understood at the time that the Lady was modeled on the domineering but irrepressible Mabel Dodge Luhan, the "salon primitivist," in D.H. Lawrence's words. Between 1917 and 1929, Luhan transformed her adopted Taos home in northern New Mexico into a cultural hinterland for those on the avant-garde of cultural expression, including artists and writers she had come to know in New York City. This salon in the desert is the subject of Flannery Burke's entertaining "From Greenwich Village to Taos."