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Video: First crop of Hatch chile is roasted

A strike of nurses and technicians at Santa Fe’s hospital has been averted as union members vote to accept a contract with Christus St.

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Video: First crop of Hatch chile is roasted

City making improvements around three West Side schools

Students and parents of three West Side schools will see major changes when the school year begins in August.

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Rio Grande water restored to Albuquerque customers

Albuquerque’s water utility has resumed delivery of Rio Grande water to metro area customers.

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Three-year-old boy nearly drowns in pool

A three-year-old boy nearly drowned in a pool Sunday as his uncle looked on. According to Albuquerque police and witnesses, the uncle was intoxicated.

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Martinez appoints new Court of Appeals judge

Governor Susana Martinez has appointed an Albuquerque attorney to the Court of Appeals.

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Martinez appoints new Court of Appeals judge

Man’s memory honored with ghost bike

Dozens of bike riders rode to the intersection of Washington Street and Indian School Road Saturday, where Matt Trujillo was hit by a car.

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$20 for $40 Worth of Quilting and Sewing Supplies at Quilts Olé

America has enjoyed a long tradition of textile manufacturing, from Betsy Ross cross-stitching the Constitution to Neil Armstrong knitting the Eagle lunar lander. Start your own textile tradition with today’s Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of quilting and sewing supplies at Quilts Olé in Corrales. The fabric hunters at Quilts Olé maintain a stockpile of over 3,000 bolts of fabric and an encyclopedic selection of patterns and kits. Wax-dyed batik fabrics can be found en masse, and a cornucopia of flannels await transformation into huggable bed sheets or basketball jerseys for a team of lumberjacks. Patterns such as the chili quilt ($20) are scalable into crafts of multiple sizes, so the finished product can be used as a wall hanging or lap throw, and quilters can add shimmer to quilts with fabric in colors such as shell and mint ($9.35 / yd.) from Michael Miller’s Fairy Frost collection. New fabrics are delivered often, and seasoned sewers lead free demonstrations of quilting techniques and advanced calculus on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Creative Discipline Ideas Teach your children well, build a robot, and feed them on your dreams. Read more…

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Buck 65: Every Available Color

Calling a musician “original” has largely lost its value in 2011. It’s overused and wrongly applied so much that we think someone’s meat dress is something new in a post-Warhol age.

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DWI arrests plummet in Albuquerque

Albuquerque police arrested the fewest number of drunk drivers last year that they have in 25 years.

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Fire closures ending as moisture rises

The Santa Fe National Forest is lifting fire restrictions for portions of the forest starting Saturday and several state parks are reopening as monsoon moisture reduces the fire risk.

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Fire closures ending as moisture rises

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