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New Mexico Health Secretary, Experts Push Vaccine Message - By Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press New Mexico Health Secretary Dr. Tracie Collins says the state has tapped into a network of community health providers, faith leaders and other local organizers to share information as officials look to boost the number of people who are vaccinated. Collins testified Thursday before a congressional subcommittee on the challenges of combating misinformation surrounding the coronavirus pandemic and the vaccination campaign. She said New Mexico has been a leader in distribution. She said the early...

US Water Managers Warn Of Dismal Year Along The Rio Grande - By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press Federal water managers have released their annual operating plan for the Rio Grande, and it doesn't look good. Flows have been meager so far this year because of below-average snowpack and precipitation. The Rio Grande is one of North America's longest rivers and a major water source for millions people and thousands of square miles of farmland in New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. The Bureau of Reclamation warned Thursday that a stellar monsoon season would be the only saving grace, but the odds...

Famed Laguna Pueblo photographer Lee Howard Marmon dies April 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Lee Howard Marmon, a self-taught photographer from Laguna Pueblo whose photographs are in galleries and museums around the world, has died. He was 95. The Albuquerque Journal reported Thursday that Marmon died March 31 of natural causes at a veterans home in Albuquerque. The newspaper said a private funeral has already been held and Marmon was buried at the Santa Fe National Cemetery. Marmon’s images of Native Americans, many taken on the Laguna reservation, helped to chron...

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Lee Howard Marmon was a self-taught photographer from Laguna Pueblo whose photographs grace books, magazines, galleries, private collections and museums around the world – including the Smithsonian. His images of Native Americans, many taken on the Laguna reservation, helped to chronicle life in the community where he grew up, the blue-eyed, independent and spirited child of a mixed Native and non-Native American marriage, according to those who knew him well. Marmon, 95, died March 31 from natural causes at a veterans home in Albuquerque. ..........

Apr. 15—Lee Howard Marmon was a self-taught photographer from Laguna Pueblo whose photographs grace books, magazines, galleries, private collections and museums around the world — including the Smithsonian. His images of Native Americans, many taken on the Laguna reservation, helped to chronicle life in the community where he grew up, the blue-eyed, independent and spirited child of a mixed ...