AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoTrail Access & Parking: Santa Fe County is weighing a purchase of a 22-acre Rio en Medio parcel to ease ongoing Rio en Medio Trail parking conflicts, after the trail’s closures and reopenings tied to fires and flooding left hikers and neighbors at odds. Wildland Firefighter Housing Crunch: A new report spotlights federal wildland firefighters living in vans and struggling with low pay and scarce housing—an issue that can hit travel plans too when smoke and staffing shortages worsen. Local Arts & Culture: Santa Fe’s Burning of Zozobra will honor Dolly Parton with a remixed “Jolene” beach-ball moment on Sept. 4, and Silver City’s Silco Theatre is set to reopen in mid-September after renovations funded by state and grant dollars. Literary Tourism: New Mexico poet laureate Manuel González received a $50,000 Poet Laureate Fellowship to expand his Voces de la Tierra spoken-word and workshop program statewide, including tribal and rural communities. Community Safety & Weather: Gas prices and storm updates continue to roll in, with New Mexico seeing minor flooding from recent storms and ongoing dust advisories in Albuquerque.
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