The past 100 years
From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Aug. 16, 1917: Las Vegas Optic: New Mexico Pinto beans are attaining fame that is their just due. Besides providing the best kind of eating material, they are getting for this state some advantageous advertising. They are known from Belgium to California, and are successful rivals of the old standard “navy” in its most delightful form, “Boston Baked.” Colorado has seen the point, and has begun raising these beans in large quantities and sending them out as “Colorado Pinto Beans.” New Mexico agricultural college suggests that New Mexico keep its position of advantage as a bean growing state by sending out all its legumes in sacks conspicuously marked, “New Mexico Pinto Beans.” …
Aug. 16, 1967: Santa Fe School Board members found themselves on the firing line last night, facing three rows of anxious-looking parents from the “forgotten area” of West Alameda where students evidently have been riding the bus to and from school and walking home for lunch.
“We need,” said Board President George Graham, “to have a school transfer policy before we go into the individual problems our policy is going to create.”
The board, therefore, voted forthwith and unanimously to adopt new transfer regulations requiring every student to register in the school located in the school district. For a change, that was just what the Alameda parents living in the area west of St. Francis Drive and between Alameda and Agua Fria were there for: to ask that their children be allowed to go back to Larragoite School — within walking distance, they pointed out — instead of being bussed to Carlos Gilbert, as planned under the new zoning adopted last month by the board.
Aug. 16, 1992: A little more than halfway through his second term Santa Fe Mayor Sam Pick is faced with a City Council he no longer controls. Last week, he hinted that he won’t run for mayor again in 1994. “I’m pretty much leaning toward not running,” he said. Pick said he’s frustrated with the council and is bored with long council meetings. He frequently walks in and out of sessions and sometimes disappears altogether, leaving proceedings in the hands of Mayor Pro Tem Phil Griego.
“I hate the meetings,” Pick said. “Everything has become a hassle.”