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Groups hoping to reduce marijuana possession penalties are making a push to get the message on the November ballot. PAGE A-7
Superintendent blasts state evaluations By Milan Simonich The New Mexican
Public won’t know if ‘Bachelor’ says ‘yes’
Santa Fe public school teachers generally received lower ratings than their peers across New Mexico in evaluations released Friday by the state, but Superintendent Joel Boyd immediately denounced the results as incorrect.
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“There are a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies,” Boyd said in an interview. “We can’t draw any conclusions based on this.” A spokesman for the state Public Education Department said its ratings are accurate, and Boyd knows it. The state issued evaluations for 20,899 teachers across New Mexico. It concluded that almost 73 percent
of them were rated as effective, highly effective or exemplary. Santa Fe Public Schools’ teacher ratings were much lower. Just under 50 percent of the disJoel Boyd trict’s teachers were ranked as “effective” or higher. This was a significant drop from a preliminary evaluation that
the state released last month. In addition, almost 10 percent of teachers in the Santa Fe district were evaluated as “ineffective” by the Public Education Department. That was more than twice as high as the state total of 4.2 percent. Boyd called the ratings illogical, based on the fact that the standardized test scores of Santa Fe students rose this year, while the state as a
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County judges will require people to check in daily to see if they must give urine sample. PAGE A-7
The Governor’s Office says Interior Department lacks authority to implement compact with Pojoaque.
Experts say day hikers often fail to prepare for trouble
State land visitors with no permit face ticket
Governor sues over gambling compact Martinez wants to stop feds from OK’ing deal with Pojoaque Pueblo
Game officers cracking down on 2009 law
By Barry Massey
By Staci Matlock
The Associated Press
The New Mexican
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish officers are cracking down on people who visit some state lands without a permit. The permit, known as GAIN, or Gaining Access into Nature, is required of anyone over 18 who doesn’t have a hunting, fishing or trapping license and wants to recreate on State Game Commission wildlife management areas — including sites in Pecos Canyon, McAllister Lake, Edward Sargent, Rio Chama, Bear Canyon and a dozen other properties around the state. The GAIN permit is required for anyone who wants to watch wildlife, hike, bike, take pictures, ski, snowshoe or horseback ride. The permit requirement went into effect in 2009, but game officers have spent a few years trying to educate the public about it. Beginning in summer 2013, officers became more serious about requiring the permit, according to Lance Cherry, a spokesman for the Department of Game and Fish. “Those individuals that ignored properly posted prohibitions or officer requests for voluntary compliance could receive citations,” Cherry said in an email. The GAIN permit costs $20 for one year or $9 for a temporary permit, good for five days. The permit includes a fee for habitat management and a vendor fee. Adults recre-
Robin Zammas of Santa Fe hikes with her dog Django at the Chamisa Trailhead on Thursday. Zammas was lost in the woods in 2007 and survived. Django and another dog, Zora, was with her during that incident. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
By Robert Nott and Staci Matlock The New Mexican
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obin Zammas set off on what she thought would be a short hike one Sunday morning in mid-July 2007. She climbed the Winsor Trail from the ski area parking lot to Wilderness Gate, then turned left, just as Audrey Richman Kaplan did July 30. Zammas was looking for big views and wildflowers. Kaplan was searching for mushrooms. Zammas survived two nights in the mountains; Kaplan was found dead five days after she went missing. Both were unprepared. Zammas had a bottle of water and one energy bar, no matches and no sense of how to start a fire. “It’s very easy to get disoriented up there,” she recalled of her ordeal. “You look around, and all you see are trees. It was gorgeous on the one hand. Terrifying on the other hand, in terms of, ‘How am I going to get out of here?’ Everything looks the same, like a maze.” Realizing she needed water to survive, Zammas followed a creek,
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WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET LOST OUTDOORS u Stay in the location where you first realized you were lost. u Send off emergency signals: three shots or whistle blows. Pause, then repeat. u Make a fire if conditions permit. u Stay as warm and dry as possible.
which eventually led to a river where a search and rescue team found her standing on a large, fallen tree — picking raspberries — 48 hours after she got lost. She heard a whistle from across the river and said, “Hello.” They called out her name, and she replied, “Over here.” Adrenaline and the need to care for her two Australian shepherds — Django and Zora — kept her going. Kaplan was not so lucky. Last Monday, her body was found about
U.S. bombs as Iraq crisis worsens Extremists capture hundreds of women By Diaa Hadid and Bram Janssen The Associated Press
IRBIL, Iraq — The U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against militants of the Islamic State group Friday amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. The extremists took captive hundreds of women
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from a religious minority, according to an Iraqi official, while thousands of other civilians fled in fear. Many of America’s allies backed the U.S. intervention, pledging urgent steps to assist the legions of refugees and displaced people. Those in jeopardy included thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority whose plight — trapped on a mountaintop by the militants — prompted the U.S. to airdrop crates of food and water to
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them. American planes conducted a second airdrop of food and water early Saturday for those trapped in the Sinjar mountains, said Pentagon chief spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. Escorted by two Navy fighter jets, three planes dropped 72 bundles of supplies for the refugees, including more than 28,000 meals and more than 1,500 gallons of water, said
u Consume warm or hot liquids as circumstances allow. Even hot water is good. u Make a simple shelter. Protection from high winds and cold rain are the main concerns. If there is sufficient snow cover on the ground, use a stick to cut blocks to set up a square, small seating shelter. Use pine branches for insulation under feet, seat and behind your back.
1.2 miles northwest of Wilderness Gate. Hikers, skiers, bikers, horseback riders, hunters and anyone else who spends time in the great outdoors can get lost or injured. Most of the people who get in trouble are day hikers who don’t foresee spending a lot of time in the wild and thus don’t prepare, several experts said. Since 2008, New Mexico Search & Rescue has conducted more
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Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration has sued the federal government to stop the Interior Department from approving a new gambling compact for Pojoaque Pueblo and imposing it on New Mexico. The Governor’s Office filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, contending the interior secretary doesn’t have the authority to implement a compact under procedures being followed by Pojoaque after it failed to negotiate a new gambling agreement with the state. Interior Department spokeswoman Emily Beyer said Friday she could not comment on pending litigation. Jessica Hernandez, the governor’s deputy chief of staff and attorney, said in a statement that Pojoaque “is attempting to use regulations from the Department of Interior to conduct gaming in a way that is contrary to the best interests of New Mexicans and neighboring pueblos.” A federal appeals court ruled in a Texas case in 2007 that the federal agency couldn’t impose a gambling compact on the state using that process, but that decision isn’t binding on federal judges in New Mexico. Pojoaque Gov. George Rivera said, “The Department of Interior will be able to defend their position very well, and I think the compact between the Pueblo of Pojoaque and the Department of Interior will move forward.”
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Obituaries Antonia Lupardus, July 30 Meredith Ruth Barnes, Aug. 3 John Houghton Phillips, July 15
Lea Flower, July 29 Andrew William Manges, 50, July 25 Maxine S. Goad, July 28 PAGE A-10
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