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Group withdraws music school idea El Rancho de las Golondrinas Foundation has withdrawn its request for a variance from residential zoning so it could operate a music school at the Paloheimo house at 614 Acequia Madre.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

The not-so secret shortcut off Airport Road that many take for local trips or to get to various athletic facilities northwest of the N.M. 599 frontage road has been reopened, but county officials say the hundreds of motorists who use it may be trespassing on private property.

FBI agents arrested a Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo teenager Friday for the murder of a 26-year-old man found dead last weekend on a neighboring pueblo, according to court documents.