TO OUR READERS

The New Year can signify a new beginning to many, but before you can look ahead you have to clean up the past. Sometimes literally, as in clearing out space.

Features writer Elaine D. Briseño tackles that chore in our cover story, offering ways and means to get your home and life organized. And that goes beyond merely emptying boxes, our experts say — unless you adopt new habits, you’ll end up with the same clutter again.

Radio is alive and well in New Mexico, especially low-power FM stations that are giving small communities a voice.

Features writer Rosalie Rayburn profiles three of those small stations, broadcasting from Madrid, Placitas and Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights.

In Arts, Assistant Editor Kathaleen Roberts looks at “Art of Devotion — Historic Art of the Americas” at the Peyton Wright Gallery in Santa Fe, an exhibit of 100 Spanish Colonial artworks. The paintings, furniture and other objects in the exhibit would have been in colonists’ homes as an expression of their Catholic devotion.

And Arts Editor Adrian Gomez profiles a 17-year-old Bosque School senior who gets his big break playing Leonardo DiCaprio’s son in the new movie “The Revenant.”

In Travel, we visit the snowy playground of Durango, Colo., a popular destination for local skiers and snowboarders.

Looking ahead, next week Features Assistant Editor Donna Olmstead will explore how successful people stick to their resolutions and goals and how some of what they’ve learned can work in our own lives.

Enjoy a happy New Year’s and ring in 2016 safely.

Until next week,