The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 22, 1918: A temperature of 22 below zero was recorded in Las Vegas early this morning, according to Secretary of State Antonio Lucero, who telephoned from that city. Mr. Lucero said the cold was intense and there was some suffering because of it. It is not known if Mr. Lucero got his information from the official observer in Las Vegas, though the unofficial thermometers usually do not read more than a few degrees at variance from the government tube.

… Santa Fe again shivered yesterday in a temperature which reached 1 below zero and did not rise above 22.

Jan. 22, 1968: PECOS — A plea to preserve New Mexico’s Hispanic heritage by teaching Spanish language and culture in school was voiced by a University of New Mexico professor here Friday.

Dr. Sabine R. Ulibarri told participants in a workshop on teaching Spanish to the Spanish-speaking child that language and culture are so closely linked that “to know one is to know the other. To destroy one is to destroy the other.”

Dr. Ulibarri, for many years a leading exponent of bilingual education in the state, is a native of Rio Arriba County. An associate professor of Spanish literature at UNM, his publications include a book of short stories, two volumes of poetry and a critical work on Spanish poet Juan Romero Jimenez.

Jan. 22, 1993: Santa Fe may be the last state capital in the country to get a public transportation system, but it’s the first U.S. city to get one that’s run completely on an alternative fuel.

“What we are doing is clearly on the cutting edge,” said David Armijo, general manager of the city’s transit services department. “We’re the only one in the country that has a (natural gas) dedicated fleet. Everyone else is moving slowly toward doing this.”