Puesta del Sol Elementary kids walk, roll to school again
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Serving Sandoval County, Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, & Corrales
Serving Sandoval County, Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, & Corrales
By Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Oct 16, 2019
Thousands of students, parents, teachers and community leaders across New Mexico walked, biked,...
Read MoreBy Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Oct 15, 2019
What was once termed “the billion-dollar view” is still there, but the comfortable...
Read MoreBy Submitted | Oct 14, 2019
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has put forth a plan, set for debate in the 2020 legislature, for...
Read MoreBy Stephen Montoya | Oct 14, 2019
We were alarmed, although not really surprised, to learn of the fire at the former Club Rio Rancho clubhouse. With the building sitting unused, except for trespassers committing crimes, something was bound to happen to it,...
Read MoreBy Stephen Montoya | Oct 14, 2019
It’s been several years since I have had to do the menial task of waiting tables, cleaning windows and mowing lawns. Although these jobs serve a purpose, they are for the most part where many of us begin our journey as...
Read MoreBy Submitted | Oct 14, 2019
Editor: Ramon Montaño is running for re-election to the Rio Rancho school board, and I believe he has demonstrated that he deserves our vote to continue to serve our children. Ramon has maintained a positive and open line of...
Read MoreBy Submitted | Oct 14, 2019
Editor: The annual Rio Rancho Kiwanis “Buy Rio Rancho” holiday sign design contest is ongoing. Students can win great prizes as well as have their sign displayed all over town through the holidays. We want to be sure...
Read MoreBy Submitted | Oct 14, 2019
Editor: What’s next from Waste Management for the citizens of Rio Rancho? It seems that “WM” has decided to reduce recycling picks by roughly 50 percent, to every other week rather than the existing weekly...
Read MoreBy Submitted | Oct 14, 2019
Editor: As a former co-owner of the facility known as Club Rio Rancho, I experienced a profound sadness as we all watched the facility go up in flames on Oct. 4. Thousands of residents utilized the club as a “surrogate...
Read MoreBy Stephen Montoya | Oct 14, 2019
The section of land between Presbyterian Rust Medical Center and Westside Boulevard could be...
Read MoreBy Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Oct 13, 2019
The Class 5A defending champion Cleveland Storm boys soccer team snapped out of its doldrums...
Read MoreBy Stephen Montoya | Oct 13, 2019
Business is already booming for the newly opened Piñon Coffee at 1761 NM 528, in the former...
Read MoreBy Amy Byres | Assistant Editor | Oct 12, 2019
A Rio Rancho robotics team learned what a lineman risks for the sake of power at the...
Read MoreBy Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Oct 11, 2019
Stepping in again for injured starting quarterback Jeff Davison, junior Trey Ortega ran for 194...
Read MoreBy Argen Marie Duncan | News Editor | Oct 11, 2019
The City of Rio Rancho is funding several road projects with almost $1.7 million of unexpected...
Read MoreBy Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Oct 11, 2019
Former Ram Baker is MWC Player of Week University of New Mexico junior forward Leilani Baker was named the Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week as it was announced by the league office on Oct. 7. Baker, a native of Rio...
Read MoreBy Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Oct 11, 2019
Zach Vigil; scored four first-half touchdowns Thursday evening at Nusenda Community Stadium, where...
Read MoreBy Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Oct 10, 2019
Six days after fire destroyed Rio Rancho’s 49-year-old country clubhouse, investigators said...
Read MoreBy Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Oct 8, 2019
If there’s anything to suspicions of DNA leading into an offspring’s talent, this may...
Read MoreBy Stephen Montoya | Oct 7, 2019
The owner of the defunct Club Rio Rancho has said he still plans to revitalize the property and he...
Read MoreBy Rio Rancho Observer | Oct 7, 2019
Over the past two months the Observer has put the spotlight on our area’s businesses via our new business page, which appears the third Sunday of every month. Since its inception, this section, via the suggestion of some...
Read MoreBy Submitted | Oct 7, 2019
In my experience, when a controversy arises over the performance of a single public employee or...
Read MoreBy Stephen Montoya | Oct 7, 2019
BERNALILLO — Representatives for the New Mexico Department of Transportation gave the Sandoval...
Read MoreBy Submitted | Oct 7, 2019
Editor: I would like to say a big thank you to the Parks and Rec guys who were working down in the Willow Creek bosque on Sept 30. A friend of mine walks down there every day. He is on crutches and needs a place to rest when he...
Read MoreBy Submitted | Oct 7, 2019
Editor: Nothing says NOT New Mexico more than a six-story black high-rise set in a neighborhood of one- and two-story earth tone buildings, next to a residential neighborhood. (See Sept. 29 Observer for story that prompted this...
Read MoreBy Submitted | Oct 7, 2019
Editor: On Sunday, September 29, at about 12:15 p.m., I was headed eastbound and stopped at the intersection of Corrales Road and NM 528 when a group of about 100 motorcyclists was turning east on Corrales Road from northbound...
Read MoreBy Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Oct 6, 2019
It’s not easy to repeat as a state champion in practically every sport — and in boy’...
Read MoreBy Argen Marie Duncan | News Editor | Oct 6, 2019
As fall gets underway, people practicing Judaism mark a New Year, observe a time of repentance and...
Read MoreBy Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Oct 5, 2019
Pendley vies to be Olympian Three Oklahoma softball alumni will participate in the USA Softball Women’s Olympic Team Selection Trials held Oct. 2-6 at the USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City. Among them is...
Read MoreBy Rio Rancho Observer | Oct 5, 2019
A Mora man has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a Rio...
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