Pojoaque News

Line Camp lessons Of all the bars, nightclubs, and music venues that influenced my career as a journalist, none compared with the Line Camp in Pojoaque.

Photo: The Line Camp owners John Harvey, left, and Julian Harvey, right, are joined by their sister, Jean Brasser, for the nightcluba TMs closing night.

Photo: Professional show jumper Janet Hischer of Scottsdale, Ariz., practices Thursday on the 1.4-meter course at Las Campanas Equestrian Center.

Photo: Pojoaque Pueblo Gov. George Rivera stands by the statue he created, Buffalo Thunder, in front of the entrance to Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino last summer.

Pojo's Country Store, on N.M. 502, is in an iconic space. It occupies a building where Ponce Lujan's Service Station served Pojoaque Valley patrons for approximately 50 years.

DOT sues LujA n for road land The New Mexico Department of Transportation has filed a land-condemnation suit against Speaker of the House Ben LujA n, D-NambA©, to allow for improvements to U.S. 84/285. The petition asks a judge to approve the DOT's offer of $60,000 for six parcels of land, totaling about 18,000 square feet.

Jerome Block Sr. said Wednesday that he hopes a golf tournament fundraiser next week in Pojoaque can help him put at least a dent in legal bills stemming from the elections-related criminal case pending against him and his son.

Earlier this month, a send-off party held for Manny Aragon, the prison-bound former president of the New Mexico Senate, created controversy .

Photo: Pojoaque Valley Farmers Market manager Cindy Talamantes talks with Gil Ortiz about the jams and salves she is selling at the marketa TMs a community table.a TM Talamantes says the market is a about helping people help themselves.a TM Cool crops are hot sellers at valley's growing farmers market John Knoll 6/14/2009 - 6/12/09 The Pojoaque ...

If Pojoaque Pueblo's lieutenant governor had struck and killed a fellow American Indian on U.S. 84/285 in April, she likely would not be facing charges in connection with the death, U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt said Thursday.

Pojoaque lieutenant governor indicted Pojoaque Lt. Gov. Linda Diaz has been indicted in the hit-and-run death of a ChimayA3 man in April, KOB-TV reported Wednesday night.

After he lost his job in construction, Fred Arellano spent nearly every day looking for a new one.

Seventeen miles north of Santa Fe, on the west side of U.S. 84/285, there's a compelling sign that reads: Psychic Healer, with a picture of a dark-haired woman, hands cupped around a crystal ball.

After months of delay because of a once-missing document at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Santa Fe County is now moving ahead with plans to develop a 3-acre community park in Nambe.

Photo: Pojoaque Valley water master VIctor Chavez checks a measuring station near an acequia in NambA©. Chavez has long been a water master in the valley, one of the most contentious basins in a state where water battles are common.

Photo: Gurney gallop: Peds Running team members Virginia Turner, left, Dr. Stephen Lucero and Natasha Trujillo push Dana Morgan during a gurney race Friday, part of Christus St.

Even though two new casinos came online in the past year, New Mexico casino net wins dropped by almost $2.5 million in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same time period last year, records show.

Photo: This sandstone sign was recently installed in front of the Sacred Heart Church on N.M. 503.

It was no way to run a school. Even administrators in the Pojoaque Valley School District concede that the first year of operation of the Sixth Grade Academy a ' educational home to about 150 students a ' was pretty much a disaster with an fancy sounding name.

Photo: Pojoaquea TMs Ernestine Romero, 21, released her sixth album, Sin Ti , May 1. Romero says the album, recorded in San Antonio, Texas, took two years to complete.