I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The Town of Bernalillo will give away cottonwood seedlings from the State Forestry Division Thursday starting at 11 a.m., at El Molino building, across from the Bernalillo Rail Runner station. The give-away is part of the Town’s Earth Day celebration and Cottonwood Canopy Restoration Initiative.
One of the oldest towns west of the Mississippi River, Bernalillo will also hold an adobe workshop and sell adobe bricks for $0.50 each at the El Molino building.
The Town will also sell larger cottonwood and poplar trees, roses, honeysuckles and other plants. Proceeds will help fund the Town’s Youth Conservation Corps educational programs, including training and field trips, Town spokesman Raul Araujo said.
“Bernalillo’s Earth Day celebration continues a long tradition of recognition of our architectural history and sensitivity to the natural resources and environment that we all enjoy in the Rio Grande Valley,” Mayor Jack Torres said in a press release.
The cottonwoods restoration initiative is a 15-year old mitigation effort to promote the restoration of the bosque tree canopy and chokecherry bushes, Araujo said.
“The once common chokecherries bushes have virtually disappeared and an infestation of mistletoe has emerged,” Araujo said.
