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Audiences can return to the Renaissance and experience Shakespearean comedy with a modern twist as the Wabash Theater Department opens its fall season with the first musical to hit the Ball Theater …

When Olivia Newton-John passed away in 2022 after a long battle with cancer, memories inevitably turned to her starring role as Sandy in the massively successful 1978 movie Grease, the

The City of Rio Rancho’s fiscal year 2022-23 budget will include funding for a pilot program to address residential roads, city employee raises and improvements to Fire Station 6 in Mariposa. The new budget the Governing Body adopted Thursday evening projects revenues to be about $84.7 million, 19 percent, or $13.8 million higher than the one the city adopted a year ago, $71 million.  

I want to thank the author of this article (“Chronic pain calls for innovative solutions,” Aug. 1 Observer) for her bringing the plight of pain patients to light. I am a severe pain patient (chronic pancreatitis), and Cheryl Everett really understands pain patients’ difficulty trying to continue medication therapy.

Researchers attribute roughly $80 billion a year in wages lost because of chronic pain. How unfortunate to measure the toll of chronic pain in dollars rather than in the quality of human life. But then, safe, effective pain management is not a priority in our health-care system.

Editorial: Opinion or fact? Know the difference Story by Editorial | Apr 25, 2021 | Editorial, Opinion | In the continuation of the Observer’s series “Newsroom 101,” the next lesson is the difference between opinion pieces and news articles. The difference between the two may seem fairly obvious, but the editing process on both sides may not be. News pieces have a fairly simple process. Reporters will fact-check their own stories and format them in Associated Press style before our edit...

Insight: Manager decision could be most important Cheryl Everett One former City of Rio Rancho staffer said to me recently that selecting a new city manager is the most important decision a mayor and council can make. Rio Rancho has been without a permanent city manager since Keith Riesberg left in 2018. His replacement only stayed a matter of months. But the long search for a replacement could be nearing an end. Mayor Gregg Hull has nominated city development director Matt Geisel for the vacan...