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SOUTH VALLEY INK prints news fit for conversation. We cover the South Valley, Los Lunas, and the Westside. We distribute 4500 copies through small businesses along Isleta and Coors, and through Albertsons in the South Valley and on the West Side as well as Los Lunas. Crime Stoppers is offering $8,000 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of person responsible for killing death of Arabian Horse in the South Valley. Call 843-7867.
We're always looking for story ideas— so contact us if you have a question or story idea. Our current issue is pictured to the right. If you would like a copy, simply click on the picture and download a PDF directly to your desktop. At the very bottom of this screen you can find past issues of SVI
New Features: Scroll all the way to the bottom to find audio recordings of the pro/con forum for a new town as well as audio recordings of the Los Padillas Acequia Election meetings.
Stories for November:
- BernCo firefighters respond quickly, prevent fire spread It was as a cold morning around 2 a.m. when a fire broke out in the far South Valley at the end of November. Less than eight minutes after the reporting of the fire, the first firefighters arrived on the scene, equipped themselves, and set about putting out the fire.
- Save the South Valley Group says
Police/fire service suffer
if new town voted in on Jan. 5 At the end of November a new group opposed to the South Valley becoming a new town appeared on the horizon, and in December their signs started popping up. Save the South Valley (STSV) is a grass roots organization that formed to fight the battle against making the South Valley a new town named Valle de Atrisco.
Its signs state, “Save the South Valley, Vote Against Incorporation, January 5, No New Taxes.”
The UNM Bureau of Business and Economic Research study notes that the revenues for the new city would be around $22 million, but cost of the city would be around $32 million. (Bernalillo County estimates that the cost is more in the $36 million range.)
One of the public spokespersons for the Save the South Valley group is William Walker, and for the month of December, STSV has been meeting at the Westside Community Center at 6:30 p.m. every Monday.
In case you missed the pro/con forum on the new town, here it is. Click on the link below.
Pro/Con Forum on the new South Valley Town.
Below is a recording of the Los Padillas Acequia when it seated commissioners. The election has landed in court and the recording is of acequia memebers objecting to an election in which non-irrigators and not-landowners voted.
Acequia seats commissioners/case has landed in court
Below is recording of the actual election of the Los Padilas Acequia. Note: The quality is extremely poor. The audio is in two parts.
Part I Part II
Below is a meeting of the Los Padillas Acequia Commisioners Nov 27 meeting
Special Commisioner meeting Nov 27 Los Padillas Acequia
If you want to hear what the Los Padillas Acequia did at its March meeting, scroll down and you can hear for yourself how the acequia is run...
The recording begins with James Maestas calling South Valley
Ink Editor Pat McCraw a witch— we can only guess that this is because
the LP Acequia was forced to follow state law and it was unable to
comply. The recording has 17 minutes of discussion before the meeting
actually begins. No resolutions were passed, and McCraw was ejected
from the meeting for asking to have discussion on a proposed resolution
that was not passed. Later on, another woman was ejected for pointing
out 15 people out of 40 didn't constitute a majority.
Video Recording of Los Padillas Acequia Meeting
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