El Rancho News

Remains of what appear to be a sheep s skeleton were uncovered during excavation at the site of the New Mexico History Museum.

Group withdraws music school idea El Rancho de las Golondrinas Foundation has withdrawn its request for a variance from residential zoning so it could operate a music school at the Paloheimo house at 614 Acequia Madre.

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray LujA n will hold open office hours Monday in Santa Fe. He will meet with constituents for five minutes each.

The city of Santa Fe filed suit Monday against more than a dozen parties, including the Santa Fe County clerk and El Rancho de las Golondrinas, seeking to settle claims to water rights worth an estimated $1 million.

On Tuesday, Vangie Montoya decided that angels walk on Earth. That was the day she got a call from Anthony Roybal, executive director of the nonprofit weatherization program Los Amigos in Santa Fe.

Photo: Jaycob Trujillo, 8, a student at Los Ranchos Elementary School in Albuquerque, watches as Sara Bogle, a volunteer weaver and spinner at El Rancho de las Golondrinas living history museum, extracts amole, a kind of soap, from yucca root Thursday at the museum.