Margaret E O'Hara

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara

Fran Larsen isn't quite sure why she decided to let visitors into her home and art studio at The Montecito Santa Fe senior housing community. "All I know is that somebody came and said, 'Would you like to do this?' " she recalled.

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday issued an executive order declaring a wildfire that has burned more than 24,000 acres north of Silver City an emergency in Grant County and directed additional resources toward fighting it. The executive order authorized $750,000 in emergency response spending on the Trout Fire, which ignited June 12, including the deployment of the New Mexico National Guard.

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara

Wastewater in Deming has tested positive for measles, based on a June 10 sampling by the New Mexico Department of Health. While the detection can't indicate the timing, location or number of people infected with the virus — nor does it count as an official measles case — the positive wastewater test indicates at least one person in Deming with measles has gone undiagnosed, state Department of Health Medical Epidemiologist Dr. Daniel Sosin said Tuesday in a news release.

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara

With contract negotiations looming, the union that represents most workers at the long-beleaguered Alta Vista Regional Hospital in Las Vegas, N.M., is raising concerns about the facility's staffing levels and financial stability — fears the hospital's CEO dismissed as "totally inaccurate." District 1199NM of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, which represents the hospital's employees other than administrators and security staff, is set to start collective bargaining...

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Margaret E O'Hara

The appointment marked Octavio Vega Saenz's first time in a dental exam chair in a very long time. How long? "Since I've been Octavio," he joked in an interview in Spanish. A painful molar had brought him into Villa Therese Catholic Clinic on Hopewell Street in Santa Fe on Wednesday morning. Dental assistant Virgie Lovato flitted around one of the clinic's dental exam rooms, capturing X-rays of Vega Saenz's teeth, while the dentist, Dr. Ron Romero, was on hand to perform his exam.