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Testimony begins in Christmas murder Joe Rivera, 19, is accused of killing two men at a party south of Santa Fe on Dec. 25, 2012. PAge A-7
New leaders usher in new era Gonzales, city councilors take oaths in emotional ceremony
Going inside WIPP Workers to enter the nuke site for the first time since employees were exposed to radiation. PAge A-7
Attorney General Gary King finished last in the field of five gubernatorial candidates, with about 10.5 percent of delegate votes.
King to continue in race for governor Despite last-place finish at convention, AG says he has enough support to make primary ballot
Passport theft probe Officials investigating two passengers who boarded missing plane with false identity papers. PAge A-3
By Barry Massey
The Associated Press
Review board to weigh final changes to Valdes House Site to offer housing for those with memory loss By Paul Weideman The New Mexican
The Valdes House, located along East De Vargas Street in the Barrio de Analco Historic District, which once boasted an inviting patio with shade trees and a white picket fence, is soon to reopen as a modern facility for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The Garden, part of El Castillo, a nonprofit continuing care retirement community at 250 E. Alameda St., will provide 11 studio apartments for residents with memory loss. The final hearing before the Historic Districts Review Board is at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall. El Castillo is seeking approval for rooftop appurtenances, a large metal “hotbox” containing a water backflowpreventer and a double-wide Dumpster on the east side of the property. Some in the preservation community mourn the visible changes to
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Digest This! Coffee & etiquette SITE Santa Fe’s weekly series related to themes and concepts in the exhibit Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art continues with a presentation and tasting with Tai Ayers of Ohori’s Coffee Roasters, followed by Bizia Greene from the Etiquette School of Santa Fe, 6-7 p.m., SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, $10.
‘L.A. Times’ crossword returns Back by popular demand, the Los Angeles Times crossword can now be found every day in The New Mexican classifieds section. The New York Times crossword will continue to run on the Time Out page.
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Mayor Javier Gonzales with daughters Cadence, 9, and Cameron, 15, waves at the crowd at the Greer Garson Theatre during his inauguration Monday night. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
By Daniel J. Chacón
The New Mexican
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anta Fe’s new mayor and the four city councilors who won election last week took the oath of office before a large and sometimes lively crowd Monday night at the Greer Garson Theatre. The hourlong event, which included a send-off to outgoing Mayor David Coss and Councilors Chris Calvert and Rebecca Wurzburger, was marked with tears, expressions of gratitude and repeated references to a bright future for a city that is four centuries old. “I come before you today not just as your new mayor but as a part of the community of Santa Fe. I’m here as one link in a 400-year chain of people with a frontier spirit devoted to building something special,” Gonzales told the audience during a nearly nine-minute speech after he was sworn in. Coss, who served two four-year terms as mayor, said it was an honor and a privilege to watch Gonzales take the oath of office. “Tonight, Mayor-elect Gonzales, we start the
next phase of our journey as a town and as a community,” said Coss, who had endorsed Gonzales for mayor over City Councilors Patti Bushee and Bill Dimas, who both showed up to the event shortly after it started. Coss noted that Gonzales, 47, was stepping into the job at a younger age than most recent mayors. Gonzales, who took a “selfie” with a cellphone camera with his back to the audience toward the end of the event, was accompanied on stage by his daughters, Cameron, 15, and Cadence, 9. “He’s going to be a mayor that can bring the youth of Santa Fe to be even more active in our civic affairs,” Coss said during the event, for which Gonzales’ cousin, former television news anchor Carla Aragon served as master of ceremonies. Signe Lindell, who was elected to represent City Council District 1, said she has “big shoes to fill” because the north-side district “has been represented so well” by Calvert, who did not seek reelection, and Bushee, who has been a councilor for 20 years and still has two years left on her term.
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“I come before you today not just as your new mayor but as a part of the community of Santa Fe. I’m here as one link in a 400-year chain of people with a frontier spirit devoted to building something special.” Mayor Javier Gonzales
Attorney General Gary King is committed to staying in the race for governor despite his last-place finish at a Democratic pre-primary nominating convention, his campaign manager said Monday. King has more than enough nominating petition signatures to secure a place on the ballot for the June primary election, said Jim Farrell, his campaign manager. “Gary King enjoys the strong support of Democrats at the grassroots across New Mexico, but who do not count among the convention insiders,” Farrell said in a statement. “Our 10,000 plus nominating signatures for Gary demonstrates it. Our focus has been, and remains winning the nomination on June 3rd when the rank and file Democrats of our state will decide who has the right stuff to defeat Susana Martinez.” Republican Gov. Susana Martinez is running unopposed in the GOP primary. King has the best name recognition among the Democrats seeking the party’s gubernatorial nomination. He’s a two-term statewide elected official, a former state legislator and the son of the late Bruce King, the state’s longest-serving governor. But at Saturday’s convention, King finished last in the field of five gubernatorial candidates, with about 10.5 percent of delegate votes. Candidates needed 20 percent support to automatically earn a place on the ballot, but they can remain in the race if they have enough nominating petition signatures. Farrell said King’s campaign submitted nearly 10,400 signatures to the secretary of state when filing for office in February. That’s more than twice as many as needed. Candidates who don’t earn the party’s endorsement at the convention must have a total of 4,373 petition signatures from registered Democrats. Two-term Sen. Howie Morales of Silver City finished first at the convention, with 29 percent. Political newcomer and Santa Fe businessman
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Father of Sandy Hook shooter speaks out
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Peter Lanza calls son who killed 26 at Conn. school ‘evil,’ wishes he had never been born
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By Marc Santora
The New York Times
Peter Lanza had not seen his son, Adam, for two years before the day Adam walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and killed 20 schoolchildren and six adults. Since that morning, Lanza cannot go an hour without thinking
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about his child. And now, he says, he wishes his son had never been born. “You can’t get any more evil,” he said in his first public comments Adam Lanza since the shooting. “How much do I beat up on myself about the fact that he’s my son? A lot.” In a series of emotionally wrenching interviews with the writer Andrew Solomon, Lanza detailed his son’s medical history and increasing isolation, his ex-
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wife’s struggle to deal with their troubled child and his own role as the father of the person who committed one of the worst mass shootings in the nation’s history. Solomon, the author of the book Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, recounts the interviews in an article in this week’s issue of The New Yorker magazine. Adam Lanza, 20, shot his mother, Nancy, before going on his shooting rampage at Sandy Hook on Dec. 14, 2012, and then shot himself just as the police were arriving at
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Obituaries Jeannette Margaret Johnson Paul Russel Kniss, 86, Santa Fe, March 7 Ruperta Lopez, 86, Pojoaque, March 7 Joe Lujan, 57, Pojoaque, March 8 Manuel J. Rodriguez, March 4 Pasqual Sanchez, March 5 Margaret Susan Zeilik, 91, Santa Fe, Feb. 1 PAge A-8
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