The Corrales Comment

Viva Corrales All Month Long

Celebrate all things Corrales

¡Viva Corrales! Is back and it’s bigger and better this year.  ¡Viva Corrales! is the village’s returning headline event kicking off on April 28th that celebrates everything in the village. This year’s event spans an entire month, taking place every weekend, unlike last year’s inaugural single-day event. “It’ll become our…

See the entire ¡Viva Corrales! event calendar in this story.


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Corrales

Corrales Studio Tour Showcases Work From 87 Artists

‘It’s a really good opportunity for serious art collectors and people who just want to come out and see art’

The annual Corrales Art Studio Tour is an annual eclectic showcase of local talent and creativity, and one of the…

Therapy is For the Dogs

In need of some canine cuddle time? Ready to read to a dog? Research has shown therapy dogs can reduce stress…

Lightning Fries Water Pumps

Two pumps go down at Siphon Beach

A lightning strike was identified as the reason the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) pumps went down at Siphon…

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ARTS

Considering Operational Costs of Multi-Use Facility

Guest Column Ken Duckert

Ken Duckert was a member of the Arts, Community and Education (ACE) Committee, the first ad hoc committee appointed by the mayor to look into a proposed multi-use facility in Corrales. He has served as president and cast director for the Corrales Society of Artists and is a supporter of…

Songs and Stories of New Mexican Music Comes to the Old Church

Lone Piñon performs free on Jan. 21

Soak in the sounds of authentic New Mexican music when Lone Piñon visits the Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales for a free event at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 21. It would be all music from the four musicians that make up the group. Members of Lone Piñon will…

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Community

Planting for Pollinators

Local guides from the county and local pesticide-free guides

Pollinators are essential for the health and growth of our gardens. Two of the most important pollinators are bees and butterflies, both of which have declining populations due to urban growth and less vegetation for food. Bees Bees are beneficial to our yards because they pollinate our plants. Bumblebees and…

Getting Rid of Garden Pests

Tips from a bee and butterfly-friendly nursery

Many commercial nursery and greenhouse operations have a continual routine of spraying with pesticides, virucides, fungicides, fertilizers and PGRs (Plant Growth Regulators) to bring perfect, lush and consistent products to retail garden stores and the consumer.  Road’s End Farm and Nursery located between Edgewood and Moriarty doesn’t follow that approach…

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Los Ranchos

Mandy’s Farm Offers Youth Adaptive Horse Programs for Free

Outdoor recreation grant fuels program

Studies have shown that oftentimes children with intellectual and developmental disabilities are not able to participate in outdoor community recreation programs. This can be due to the lack of adaptive…

Los Ranchos Development Spurs Voters to Elect New Mayor

Craig unseats Lopez in four-way race

By Ryan Lowery, For the Corrales Comment Elections are decided by voters, but two mayoral candidates in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque agree that it was a 12-acre plot of land…

Craig Wins Mayoral Election

Kueffer, Reinow win trustee seats

Incumbent Mayor Don Lopez lost his job by a large margin to outspoken opponent Joe Craig. Lopez also came in behind two other contenders sitting Trustees Gilbert Benavides and George…

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COMMENTARY

A Better Way to Run a Railroad

There’s nothing like a road trip to make you appreciate another mode of transportation – trains. They keep motorists company along many a New Mexico highway. Before we left the federal Department of Transportation unveiled a new railroad rule, so I was paying more attention to trains. On April 2…

A Medical Cost You Didn’t Know About

Most of us have never heard of independent medical examinations. We might need to know a little more about them.  An independent medical examination (IME) is an exam performed when there is litigation related to a sick or injured person’s medical condition that requires more than the opinion of the…

American Global Resolve is Shaky

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, trying to simultaneously do the right thing, not trigger former President/current GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, and keep Congressional howler monkey Marjorie Taylor Greene from formally moving to remove him as Speaker (a “motion to vacate”), announced on April 15 his intent to split…

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Letters to the editor

Letter to the Editor: Looking for New Mexico Stories

Dear People of the Great State of New Mexico, Greetings! My name is Maria Jose Ontiveros Machuca and I am a 5th grade student at Salida Elementary School in Salida, California. We live in the central valley located east of San Francisco. This year we are each going to complete…

Letter to the Editor: We Need Clean Air for All Now

Submitted by Marcy Brandenburg and Dennis O’Mara, Co-Chairs of Clean Air for All Now! The Albuquerque Journal’s recent article on Intel New Mexico’s new “massive factory” in Rio Rancho celebrated the jobs and benefits from the investment, but made no mention of the public health and environmental concerns that we in the…

Letter to the Editor” Vision of Multi-Use Facility is a Bad Dream

Submitted by Bob Belinoff, Corrales resident When I first heard about the Village’s plans to spend eight million dollars on a destination theater – a mini-complex of sorts-  in the middle of downtown Corrales I thought it was a joke.  Then I learned the land had already been purchased, not…

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