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farmers market decisions irk vendors New board member leads effort for more locally grown, produced items in market food concessions, mercados By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
Some vendors are concerned over how the popular Santa Fe Farmers Market is managed and things came to a head during a board meeting Thursday night. The board was voting on whether
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to kick off one of its elected members, young farmer Sean Seifkin, who had run afoul Bryan Adams, the market’s executive director, and other board members. Even Seifkin’s supporters describe him as hot-headed and undiplomatic, but they agree with him about problems at the farmers market. “He might be a little radical,” said 30-year market veteran and
orchardist Pat Montoya. “Nonetheless he has some valid points.” Seifkin, a snowboarder turned farmer, was elected by vendors to the 16-member farmers market board last fall for a three-year term. Seifkin said among other issues, he and several vendors think the market’s two food concessions should sell more locally grown food, the mercado in the pavilion needs to carry more local-produced goods and there
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Judge tosses man’s damage claims over Xanax refusal
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About 2,500 sign up for Sunday’s 28th annual Santa Fe Century ride
Doctor says gun-toting security guard tried to intimidate him
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The 28th Santa Fe Century takes place this Sunday, which means drivers should prepare for crowded roads in the area. The 105-mile bike ride begins at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. From there, riders travel down St. Michael’s Drive to Cerrillos Road. Ride organizer Charles Loesch said that these roadways will be packed with cyclists from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. May 19. Loesch said the majority of riders begin at 7:30 a.m., but that he allows riders to start whenever they please to avoid the logistical hassle of a mass start. About 2,500 riders have signed up for this year’s century. That attendance is down from last year’s 3,000 riders, but some will register for the ride at the last minute. “Many wait to see what the weather looks like,” Loesch said. The route goes through or near Madrid, Golden, Stanley, Lamy and Eldorado before ending back at the hospital. As riders come back into town, they’ll travel along Old Las Vegas Highway to Old Pecos Trail, or they’ll cycle on the Interstate 25 shoulder to the Old Pecos Trail exit. Loesch said riders can chose whichever route they prefer. Loesch said that returning rider traffic is spaced farther apart than departing traffic, which means motorists should be less affected later in the day. Riders can also opt for a 50-mile or 25-mile course, but those routes start and end along the same roads as the full ride. Support vehicles will patrol the routes until 5:30 p.m. The New Mexico State Police, the New Mexico National Guard and the Santa Fe Police Department will also have units along the route.
Vendors at the Santa Fe Farmers Market are concerned about how the market is being managed. A move to oust a vocal board member failed to garner enough votes.
By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican
A Santa Fe County magistrate on Friday tossed out a man’s claim for damages against a doctor who refused to give him a prescription for the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. Fabian Duranoma, 48, said he went to see Dr. Christopher Fletcher at the Santa Fe Family Practice on Dec. 26, seeking a three-times-a-day prescription for the drug due to stress that was aggravating his diabetes and high blood pressure. Fabian Fletcher, 61, said he turned down Duranoma Duranoma because he believes Long Island Xanax is an addictive drug that accent shouldn’t be taken long-term, that gives wrong other doctors also had rejected impression Duranoma’s request for the drug and that he thought Duranoma was trying intimidate him by carrying a pistol in a holster and wearing his security-guard badge in the clinic. “I just think it’s sort of a weird twist on the whole usual thing of either you walk in and you try to rip off a pad when they’re not looking or you try to
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‘8’: a reading Santa Fe Performing Arts Adult Company presents a reading of the play by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black chronicling the legal challenge to California’s Proposition 8, 7 p.m., Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $60, preferred seating and admission to after-party $125, 984-1370.
TOP: Anastasia Kortjohn, 13, of Colorado Springs, Colo., practices Friday at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center for the 2013 Santa Fe SkateFest/ FunFest Competition. More than 120 skaters are participating in the regional ice skating competition that runs through Sunday. RIGHT: Chase Belmontes, 17, of Colorado Springs, Colo., left, takes a break next to his coaches, Tom Zakrajsek and Becky Calvin.
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FBI art sleuths chase down purloined Picassos By Phil Mattingly
Santa Fe Century volunteer Richard Chilcott helps load boxes of food Friday that will be taken to the six food stops along the 105-mile route. About 2,500 cyclist have preregistered to participate in Sunday’s ride that starts at the Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center parking lot. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN
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WASHINGTON — Stored inside a laptop at FBI headquarters are photos of thousands of paintings, sculptures and artifacts, works by Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne — international treasures worth millions of dollars each. All are missing.
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The computer belongs to Bonnie Magness-Gardiner, who holds a doctorate in Near Eastern archeology and leads the agency’s art-theft program. She considers herself one of the least-likely employees walking through the doors of the J. Edgar Hoover Building headquarters in Washington each morning. As wealthy investors seek to diversify their assets and Wall Street art
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enthusiasts like SAC Capital Advisors founder Steven Cohen beef up their collections, art crime is a growth industry and an increasingly important target for the FBI. “It’s history, it is high value, it is true crime and it is mystery,” said Robert Wittman, a former FBI special agent and senior investigator on the agency’s Art Crime Team. “We’re dealing with things that have an
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interest and a value to society and to culture and to civilization.” Art theft, while impossible to pinpoint its scope, has been estimated by some groups as totaling as much as $6 billion a year globally. Though it has been investigated by the FBI for decades, the agency’s efforts got a boost in 2004 with the creation of the
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