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6 days ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara
Terri Rodriguez remembers dialing her mother from a pay phone one Saturday night in the summer of 1967 to ask a big question. Then 16, Santa Fe native Rodriguez was on an island off the coast of New York, attending the first-ever Sing Out Festival. The event was organized by Up with People, an international nonprofit aimed at teaching youth to become globally minded through musical performances.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara
Madison Schaeffer described it as her favorite call. As an epidemiologist and director of the New Mexico Department of Health's NMHealth Helpline, Schaeffer and her staff had fielded their fair share of health care-related questions. They have helped New Mexicans find primary care doctors and specialists, scheduled vaccines for children and adults, responded to concerns about bites from various real and mythical creatures — monkeys and javelinas, chupacabras and Bigfoot.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara
The Trump administration Monday framed its "self-deportation" procedure as a cost-saving measure and a "dignified" way for immigrants to leave the country without encountering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara
The Trump administration on Monday framed its "self-deportation" procedure as a cost-saving measure and a "dignified" way for immigrants to leave the country without encountering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara
The Santa Fe school board "mishandled" its investigation into accusations of sexual harassment against the district's former superintendent, whose "rights were violated at every turn," a tort claim notice alleges. Hilario "Larry" Chavez, who stepped down from Santa Fe Public Schools' top job Feb.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara
The Santa Fe school board "mishandled" its investigation into accusations of sexual harassment against the district's former superintendent, whose "rights were violated at every turn," a tort claim notice alleges. Hilario "Larry" Chavez, who stepped down from Santa Fe Public Schools' top job Feb.
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2 weeks ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara
The New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department wants to hear from seniors and their caregivers. The department is accepting comments through May 15 on a draft of the State Plan on Aging for Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept.
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2 weeks ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara
Rob Peach, an education and prevention specialist with Solace Sexual Assault Services, faced a tough crowd Wednesday morning at Monte del Sol Charter School: a group of eighth graders. It remains a challenge to engage middle schoolers when their science class becomes a week of sexual health education. But Peach slowly drew out students' responses to his question: What are the attributes of a healthy relationship? "Trust," one group of students said. "Respect," said another.
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2 weeks ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara
The calls can come at any time. Sometimes the phone rings in the middle of the night. Other times it rings at 9 a.m.The calls can come from anyone: a police officer, a parent or a worker from the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department. Whatever the time, whoever the reporter, one of Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center's sexual assault nurse examiners is on call.
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2 weeks ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara
As New Mexico still struggles to educate students with disabilities up to the same standards as their peers, the state's inaugural head of special education has left after less than two years on the job. Margaret Cage, who was selected in October 2023 as the inaugural director and deputy secretary of the Public Education Department's much-touted Office of Special Education, has departed for a new role in Maryland. Her last day of work at the department was Tuesday.
