Services were held Friday for World War II veteran John Q. Lott who died at the Veterans Administration Hospital last month. No one claimed his body. He was indigent and had no local next of kin. The Veterans of Foreign Wars made it possible for Lott's remains to be buried with military honors at Santa Fe National Cemetery today.
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
Updated: John Q. Lott was buried this afternoon at Santa Fe National Cememtery. A World War II veteran who died at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Albuquerque and had no kin in the area to claim his remains, will be buried today at 1 p.m. at the San ...
See time-lapse video of the installation of "Family" at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center Family, a 14-foot diameter clay relief by Santa Clara Pueblo
artist Roxanne
Swentzell, was installed this week at the Santa Fe Community Convention
Center. The work, comprising multiple sections and mounted in the main
lobby,
marks the last of the first phase of commissioned artwork for the
convention center by the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission.
Audit: Suspect spending in school districts Three sport utility vehicles purchased for school administrators from an out-of-state dealer. A $91,000 tow truck. Thousands of dollars for iPods for ...
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The li ...
Sportsmen protesting White Peak land swap Anyone with a few million dollars can bid on 7,000 acres of mountainous state trust land in northeast New Mexico around a popular hunting spot called ...
David Salcido has patiently watched the Mora High School girls basketball team from the bench, content to let long-time head coach Mark Cassidy be the front man as the Rangerettes annually contended for the Class AA state championships, winning one in 1998.
Salcido remained in the background, even as he contributed to the team's success as an ...
Editorial: Taos mass arrests take punishment over the top The news that 32 people were arrested and most carted off to jail, accused of causing a disruption in Judge Sam Sánchez's Taos courtroom is unsettling.
Disrupting the court is uncalled for, but a mass arrest, with no distinguishing between guilty or innocent, is a miscarriage of justice. One deputy told The Taos News that three or four audience ...
All's Fairey in national politics The image is iconic in contemporary political art. And it's been inside your head for more than a year. Art critic Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker has referred to it as "the most efficacious American political illustration since 'Uncle Sam Wants Y ...