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Santa Teresa moves forward on incorporating as a New Mexico city, but Sunland Park opposes Algernon D'Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-News © Blake Gumprecht/Sun-News Mary Gonzales, president of a group seeking to make Santa Teresa a city, stands in front of the gatehouse at the community's entrance. SANTA TERESA - Residents seeking to establish the unincorporated community of Santa Teresa as a city cleared a legal hurdle in December, but there is still a ways to go before a vote to establish themselves as a new municipality. The community is located in the southern part of Doña A...

by Angus Macfarlane WNP member Angus Macfarlane sent us this wonderful summary of the land on the east edge of the OMI, home of a number of civic institutions. In the future we hope to have more from Angus on the fascinating Industrial School, a place where even three-year-olds were sent to be "rehabilitated." Engraving of the Industrial School in the 1880s. , circa 1880 - by Van Vleck and Keith The year 2004 marked the 150th anniversary of the city's first development in the OMI. In 1854, San Francisco purchased 100 acres for $10,000 from John Horner at the intersection of the San Jose Roa...

A critical shortage of substitute teachers during the pandemic may make it difficult for some California school districts to reopen campuses or to keep open schools already offering in-person instruction. A sharp decline in applications for substitute teaching credentials since January, as well an exodus of already credentialed substitutes, have left some districts unable to keep classrooms open, especially as more teachers are quarantined after potential exposure to Covid-19.  Substitute pools at school districts are being drained, in part, because temporary teachers are tired of waiting to...

After frontline medical workers and residents of long-term care facilities receive vaccines, a consensus is emerging among health experts advising officials in California and nationally that teachers and other school staff be high on the priority list to be vaccinated next. In an emergency meeting Sunday, an influential advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control recommended that teachers, school staff and child care workers be among the next group of essential workers to be vaccinated due to the positive impact reopening schools will have on students and their families, and to minimiz...