The past 100 years

June 4, 1917: Never before in the many years of her illustrious history has Santa Fe had such an opportunity to give public expression to the patriotism and loyalty of her people as she will have tomorrow. Tuesday, June 5th — the day proclaimed by the President of the United States for the Registration of America’s manhood for service in the armed forces of the Nation.

June 4, 1967: The meeting, all in all, was a big bust.

Supposed members of the newly named Federation of Free City States, formerly known as the Alianza Federal de Mercedes, began a slow trickle that never reached flood state into the small community of Coyote about 7 a.m. Saturday.

They found themselves badly outnumbers.

Law enforcement officers and reporters, both of which were at the scene in force, vied for words with and pictures of the group that made it all possible.

June 4, 1992: It might have been easier to imagine nobody showing up for opening night at the Santa Fe Opera or Zozobra going up in flames at an empty Fort Marcy Park than to picture Emilio Naranjo getting drubbed on election night in Rio Arriba County.

Rio Arriba County and the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse have to belonged Emilio Naranjo since 1956, a year before the opera in Santa Fe was founded. The figure Naranjo cut in Rio Arriba political circles has been even more imposing than that of Zozobra towering over Santa Fe’s annual fiesta.

… Naranjo, 73, has been a state senator from Rio Arriba since 1988 and won re-election to his Senate post Tuesday by nearly 1,300 votes, according to unofficial results.

… But Naranjo lost three key positions contested Tuesday.