The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Sept. 24, 1917: The tale of a runaway team that dashed madly along a Sandoval county road until it reached the Angostura crossing of the Santa Fe railroad, between Algodones and Bernalillo, and there stopped until a Santa Fe passenger train came along and demolished the wagon to which it was hitched, is told in the petition filed in the United States district court today by Elias Vigil, a Sandoval county resident, who wants $15,000 damages from the Santa Fe railroad. It was Vigil’s team that ran away and stopped on the crossing, and it was his wagon that was demolished, and when the train hit the wagon he was thrown for a great distance, according to his petition, and his right knee cap and right leg so badly injured that he is now able to lift the leg only by means of a strap.

Sept. 24, 1967: State School Superintendent Leonard DeLayo has asked motorists to comply with traffic signs around schools.

Youngsters receive safety training in school but sometimes forget the rules they have learned, DeLayo said, in urging drivers to slow down when they are near school and playground areas, and to stop when a school bus stops.

Also a member of the New Mexico Traffic Safety Commission, he noted traffic accidents already have killed about 70 children so far this year.

Sept. 24, 1992: Tano Santa Fe will get to build its proposed 610-acre resort-style development and in exchange, the city will get up to $2 million for affordable housing and cottage industries in the next few years, according to an agreement reached Wednesday in a longstanding lawsuit between the developers and the city.

The 1990 lawsuit was filed against the city by developers of the controversial north-side subdivision when the city refused to approve changes the developers wanted to make to an initial master plan.