Arroyo Seco News

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.

Barack Obama stumped at UNM earlier this year.

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.

Gov’t and Regulation Paperwork Snafu September 15, 2008 By Bill Whaley TAOS DAILY & HORSEFLY

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.

Famed Pakistani journalist Shuja Nawaz contacted Horse Fly yesterday inquiring about potential second homer, Pervez Musharraf. The ex-Pakistani President, according to postings on the Internet, is allegedly building a house in Taos, due to his close relationship with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

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.

Scott Carlson Pottery offered the jazz musings of Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue at the Seco Stroll last evening. Hailing from Tremé, the most musical neighborhood in the most musical city – New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews has made the leap from child prodigy to Professional Master Musician.

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.

Workshop Duration: One and half days. Friday, August 8, 7-9:30 PM at the Bareiss Gallery, Saturday all day out in nature (time and place to be determined by the group on Friday). Cost of Workshop: $100. Items to bring: For Friday night, a potluck dish and earth poem. For Saturday snacks, lunch, water, sun protection. PLEASE RSVP: Rivers & Birds at 776-5200

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."

Fantastic images of the Arroyo Seco Fourth of July Parade from Rick Romancito of the TAOS NEWS.

Northern New Mexico is like a treasured friend, where a visit can prove tonic and revitalizing.

Arroyo Seco Parade starts Noon on Friday, July 4, 2008. The uniquely American holiday of Independence Day might not be reveled so much these days as a celebration of the Colonies’ adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, which solidified separation from Great Britain. But it is still about patriotism, community and family. The holiday’s modern connection with fireworks, parades, carnivals, barbecues, picnics and baseball games is alive and well, and the Enchanted Circle is no exception.

Beautiful shots of Rio Grande river gorge, i like the old truck and the gift shop looks so inviting.. i'd love to go inside.... i look forward to viewing tomorrows shots.... - Smile ; ) LOVE the mural - are the ...

A New Mexico jury has awarded $2.15 million in damages to an Arroyo Seco woman whose earlier default judgment was ignored by an insurance company.