By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff Transportation and campus security are among the priorities for which Grant County schools will be requesting capital funds in this month’s session of the New Mexico Legislature. The superintendents of the Silver and Cobre school districts, as well as Aldo Leopold Charter School’s administrator, outlined their requests before District 39 state Rep. Luis Terrazas, a Republican from Santa Clara, and District 28 state Sen. …
By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff Cobre High School senior Andres Tovar is not a person who likes the spotlight, his mother said, but that was exactly where he was Dec. 1. On that day, he was surprised at a school assembly when his name was called as the recipient of a $500 Silent Servant Scholarship, one of only 350 given out in the country. The scholarship, given by the …
A Massachusetts company intends to apply for a community solar project in Santa Clara, after the village’s Board of Trustees voted to move forward with the project at its regular meeting Thursday. The potential 2 megawatt solar garden would be located on 10 acres of vacant village property just northwest of Dollar General, adjacent to U.S. 180. The unanimous vote by the trustees means the village will begin negotiations with …
A public meeting held Tuesday evening by R. Marley, LLC, the trucking company responsible for the spill and cleanup of hundreds to thousands of gallons of emulsified oil on N.M 15 last month, turned into a three-hour face-off with a crowd of visibly angry members of the public. In addition to representatives of the trucking company, the meeting included staffers from the New Mexico Environment Department, New Mexico State Police, …
After more than a week of official inaction, the New Mexico Environment Department has taken over the cleanup of hundreds of gallons of emulsified oil that spilled from an overturned tanker truck Sept. 26. The spilled oil, destined for a postponed state chip seal project on the highway, flowed down an intermittent tributary and into Jaybird Canyon. “NMED is working with [trucking company] R. Marley LLC, the U.S. Forest Service, …