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A sign posted at the ramp of the Plaza Community Stage on Thursday alerts Plaza-goers that the bandstand is ‘for permitted use only.’ LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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A Las Vegas, Nev., company plans to help revive the Santa Fe Southern Railway excursion trains between the Santa Fe Railyard and Lamy, which stopped operating last year. A train travel service known as X Train announced this week that it has entered a contract with the privately held Santa Fe Southern. The deal calls for X Train to provide “the capital necessary to bring the track and equipment operational,” while Santa Fe Southern will operate the tourist train. Karl Ziebarth, chairman and CEO of the Santa Fe-based short line railroad, said in a news release, “While [Santa Fe Southern Railway] will not receive any immediate cash from this transaction, it provides a way to restore a vital and living part of history. This has been the central goal of [Santa Fe Southern Railway] since its inception in 1991, and this contract provides the best way to offer the service on a sustainable, attractive basis.” The tourist train carried passengers and some freight between Santa
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he bandstand on the Santa Fe Plaza occasionally has become a platform for bad behavior, prompting the city to chain off entries and post “no loitering” signs around the gazebo. “We were experiencing a lot of trash, vomit, really unsavory kinds of things,” said Isaac “Ike” Pino, director of the city Public Works Department, which oversees city parks. “So, we went back to putting the chain on and making sure that people know we didn’t want to have any loitering on the bandstand,” he said. “Those other things are not only unsightly for the Plaza, but they’re unhealthy.” The Plaza, perhaps the most treasured piece of land in the city, has drawn increased attention, particularly under the administration of Mayor Javier Gonzales. Since Gonzales was elected in March, the city has beefed up police patrols, and he began pushing a plan to close all the streets adjoining the Plaza park to
vehicular traffic. The city also is working on changes to an ordinance that regulates street performers amid complaints from merchants and residents. Annette Gonzales, a vendor who sells jewelry and other wares from a table next to the gazebo, called the Plaza Community Stage, said the city’s decision to block off the bandstand was a wise one. “It was horrible here,” she said. “Horrible.” The Community Stage is a popular gathering spot for locals and tourists alike, especially during the annual free Santa Fe Bandstand summer concert series. But in recent months, the stage had been attracting people who were fighting and sometimes smoking marijuana in broad daylight, leaving a bad impression on tourists, Gonzales said. “You don’t now what we went through the last six months here. It was a nightmare,” she said. “They would even pee on the stage.” Deborah Potter, co-owner of a Plaza business who was instrumental in helping get the bandstand built,
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Three Americans were killed at a private hospital in Kabul on Thursday morning when an Afghan police officer
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making sure that people know we didn’t want to have any loitering on the bandstand.” Isaac “Ike” Pino
3 Americans fatally shot by guard at Afghan hospital
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Rhiannon Montoya has spent the past 18 months in jail, awaiting trial on allegations that she planned the beating death of her 64-year-old uncle in Chimayó in October 2012. Her trial was scheduled to begin Monday, but a District Court judge postponed it Thursday amid claims that prosecutors had violated evidence rules. An attorney for the 36-year-old Española woman, public defender Ian Thomson Loyd, said Thursday that the District Attorney’s Office had repeatedly denied the existence of some evidence in the case and had introduced new witnesses and evidence as recently as Wednesday, which gave the defense team no time to prepare for the trial. Assistant District Attorney Peter Valencia, one of two prosecutors handling the case for the state, blamed some of the evidence delay on missteps by the Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office. A sheriff’s office spokesman, however, pointed to “bad blood” between Valencia and the office and accused the prosecutor of trying to “cover up his own case mismanagement.” Loyd asked District Judge Mary
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Rhiannon Montoya is accused of planning the beating death of her 64-year-old uncle in Chimayó in October 2012.
turned his gun on them, officials said, in a new eruption of anti-Western hostility in Afghanistan. The shooting took place at Cure International Hospital, a 100-bed facility Dr. Jerry that specializes Umanos in the treatment of disabled children and women’s health issues. One of the physicians who worked there was hosting visi-
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