Month: January 2020

Name: Albuquerque Concert Band Free Summer Concert!
Start: 2022-08-10
End: 2022-08-10
Location: 9201 balloon museum dr ne

Learning nuts & bolts of car repair

By Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Jan 31, 2020

“We need the trades desperately,” says David Latham, and the second step in meeting...

Letter to the Observer: A political cartoon questions electability

By Submitted | Jan 31, 2020

Editor: Are we to assume from the political cartoon in the Jan. 19 issue that someone who condones assassination is more electable than someone who has been unable to prevent the decline of the coal mining industry? Many people...

Letter to the Observer: Art commission supports Sky Room

By Submitted | Jan 30, 2020

Editor: The Rio Rancho Art Commission has seven dedicated art commissioners representing each of your council districts. We are an advisory body to the city council, making recommendations to enhance and promote the arts in Rio...

Gary’s Glimpses: A Jewell of a movie

By Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Jan 29, 2020

Although I don’t often make movie recommendations — except to a handful of friends and...

Letter to the Editor: Government should fear & respect citizens

By Submitted | Jan 29, 2020

Editor: When discussion of the Second Amendment comes up, it seems an interesting aspect of that amendment is seldom talked about, and that is one of the intents of that amendment is, I believe, to give American citizens equal...

Business Sense: Economic outlook showing steady improvement

By Submitted | Jan 28, 2020

Recent economic data indicates that job creation and wages are continuing their upward climb...

PNM explains power outage, communication methods

By Submitted | Jan 28, 2020

BERNALILLO — The Sandoval County Commission meeting Jan. 16 addressed a power outage in November...

Letter to the Editor: Back common sense to spay and neuter pets

By Submitted | Jan 27, 2020

Editor: In 2018, the state House, in a 48-19 vote, and the Senate, in a 30-4 vote, passed a bill to require a very small fee of pet-food companies who sold products in New Mexico earmarked to provide spay and neuter services to...

MLK event speaker says black people won’t ‘fall in line’

By Amy Byres | Assistant Editor | Jan 27, 2020

The guest speaker at the 10th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Luncheon in Rio Rancho...

Cleveland boys burned in ‘Ring of Fire’

By Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Jan 26, 2020

Traditionally, the Cleveland High boys basketball team has had its problems playing in Volcano...

Insights: State government ethics – for real or for show?

By Submitted | Jan 26, 2020

In 2016 Rio Rancho joined the ranks of New Mexico cities enacting an ethics ordinance to put...

Family spruces up RR school

By Amy Byres | Assistant Editor | Jan 26, 2020

Diaz Landscaping Management is a small business giving back to Rio Rancho Public Schools in a big...

Our View: Observer encourages free speech, didn’t hang campaign sign

By Rio Rancho Observer | Jan 25, 2020

It’s that time again, when political arguments become even fiercer and more venomous, and accusations are thicker than pigeons around a pile of spilled popcorn. Yes, it’s an election year. With city elections...

RRPS, others address teens’ social media use

By Gary Herron | Sports Editor | Jan 25, 2020

(Editor’s note: This is Part One of two in our series “Behavioral health answers:...

Police arrest man in fatal wreck

By Submitted | Jan 24, 2020

ALBUQUERQUE — Authorities say they’ve arrested a man accused of using meth before driving...

Man arrested after barricading himself inside his RR home

By Argen Marie Duncan | News Editor | Jan 24, 2020

A 43-year-old man was taken into custody by Rio Rancho police about 9 a.m. Wednesday, after he barricaded himself inside his Northern Meadows home and threatened to harm himself and others, said Rio Rancho police spokesman Capt....