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Despite the ongoing pandemic, St. Felix Pantry and the Garza family McDonald’s kept their tradition of offering free meals on Thanksgiving Day going strong after 3½ decades. St. Felix Vice President of Development Rachael Miletkov said organizers served a little more...

Not long after Rio Rancho Mayor Gregg Hull provided the Rio Rancho Roundtable NAIOP meeting on Nov. 4 at Premiere Cinemas with the eight-minute video of his State of the City address and answered a few questions, the Observer had a question of its own: What are the...

If you can’t get out to see something of historical interest, sometimes history will come to you. Such is the case at Loma Colorado Main Library in Rio Rancho, which has through Nov. 13 a traveling exhibition that examines motives, pressures and fears that shaped...

A private practice is available for patients looking for a primary care provider in Rio Rancho. Merit Family Medicine moved to the Boardwalk building, 4101 Barbara Loop, Ste. C, in March and held a ribbon-cutting Sept. 23. Certified nurse practitioner Brandy Heaton is...

“Broad support from community members and the results of the recent NCS survey of residents convinced me to seek a third term,” Mayor Gregg Hull said last week. In seven years, the Hull administration has increased police and fire services, replaced over 5,000 water...

The City of Rio Rancho’s 2021 Citizen Survey results indicated most participants are pleased with the city and its services. Survey results are available at rrnm.gov/2021survey. The city conducts a statistically valid survey every two years to gauge citizen...

Timing is everything, it’s been said, and thus having Rio Rancho’s new Campus Park as the topic of the NAIOP Rio Rancho Roundtable Zoom meeting this month fit that bill. It’s part of a strategic plan, aimed at making City Center and all that’s around it — including...

We’ve been diligently watching progress made throughout construction of the new Campus Park, once the “home” for auxiliary parking for events at Santa Ana Star Center, namely high school graduations. Truth be told, it wasn’t that great of a parking lot. Today, though,...

The city’s new Campus Park didn’t actually open with a bang last Sunday evening, but it concluded its first outdoor concert there with a plethora of bangs. Of course, fireworks are a mainstay for City of Rio Rancho Independence Day celebrations, and with the response...