Taos News

09/01/2025

NM health officials: Valencia County man diagnosed with plague but recovered

A 43-year-old Valencia County man has been diagnosed with plague, the New Mexico Department of Health announced Monday. The man was hospitalized but has since been discharged.

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A 43-year-old Valencia County man has been diagnosed with plague, the New Mexico Department of Health announced Monday. The man was hospitalized but has since been discharged. It’s the state’s

09/01/2025

Forest Service hiring for fire positions

The Carson National Forest is hiring positions to support fire operations, the agency announced Monday (Aug. 25). Jobs include dispatchers, fire engine operators, fire prevention specialists and hotshot crew members.

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The Carson National Forest is hiring positions to support fire operations, the agency announced Monday (Aug. 25). Jobs include dispatchers, fire engine operators, fire prevention specialists and …

09/01/2025

‘Tis the season to roast green chile

The unmistakable aroma of roasting green chile is wafting through the New Mexico air as locals kick off chile roasting season now through October.

From Deming to Chimayó, chile roasting is in full swing, and local farms are now firing up their roasters to meet the demand. Residents and visitors alike can look forward to roadside stands, farmers’ markets and grocery stores offering fresh, roasted chile ready to peel, bag and freeze for use all year long.

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The unmistakable aroma of roasting green chile is wafting through the New Mexico air as locals kick off chile roasting season now through October. From Deming to Chimayó, chile roasting

09/01/2025

The BunchQuitters are a trio of friends with over thirty years of musical adventures together. Individually, they are Susan Douglas Taylor, who sings, plays guitar, and writes much of the group’s material; her husband, Cary Taylor, who adds vocals and is always in demand for his wonderfully musical bass playing, and multi-instrumentalist Danny Harlow, who contributes vocals, mandolin, fiddle, and tenor guitar to the group’s arrangements.

The BunchQuitters were on the platform for the 2024 Michael Hearne’s Big Barn Dance. Their tight harmonies, down-home styling, and gracious stage presence delighted the crowds. In an intimate private performance at the Taos Inn in 2024, they drew an immediate and spontaneous crowd. We are delighted to welcome them back for two evenings in this special venue.

The BunchQuitters offer a wonderful collection of original and eclectic material drawn from their many years of playing together. Join them at the Historic Taos Inn on September 2 and 3. We think you’ll find much to like about this group of old friends—and the songs they love.

08/31/2025

Rising star Josh Tafoya uses family-inherited weaving traditions to thread magic into the now

The brujas are out tonight. The witches circle the runway in Hotel Willa’s courtyard as the sun sets on 8/8, making way for full moon. It’s the opening reception for Taos’s up-and-up-and-up-and-coming weaver-designer Josh Tafoya’s first solo exhibition, "Woven," at the Gallery at Hotel Willa, showing through Oct. 31 in collaboration with The Paseo Project. The diverse crowd of over 100 people pulses with La Madre's Desert Water (mezcal sparkly drink) and DJ Oliver’s beats.

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The brujas are out tonight. The witches circle the runway in Hotel Willa’s courtyard as the sun sets on 8/8, making way for full moon. It’s the opening reception for

08/31/2025

High desert garden abundance

Tucked away off a dirt road in El Prado is an oasis of color and life: SpiriTaos Garden. From the outside, the garden is almost hidden, but as you step through the front gate into a welcoming courtyard with water trickling through channels and into ponds, the beauty comes into view.

Right now, there is an explosion of pink, purple and yellow flowers cascading over walls and lining the pathways that wind throughout the acre-and-a-half site. Horticulturalist Dan Jones has lovingly created this garden over the last 13 years. It was grass pastureland when he purchased it in 2011.

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Tucked away off a dirt road in El Prado is an oasis of color and life: SpiriTaos Garden. From the outside, the garden is almost hidden, but as you step

08/31/2025

Picuris Pueblo reopens storied museum

At an ancestral site in Picuris this week, sunlight shone on Braylon Quiver, a budding archaeologist and enrolled member of Picuris Pueblo, as they knelt beside a shallow pit in the earth.

Dust clung to Quiver’s hands as the 16-year-old searched beneath layers of rocks, roots and time for artifacts left by the tribe's ancestors.

“What stuck with me was it made me proud to be Picuris, because these are my ancestors — this is where they farmed, they lived and this is who they were,” they said. “As someone from Picuris, doing archeology in Picuris was really special for me because of the things we were finding, like the amount of pottery, tools and shells.”

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08/30/2025

Taos' Public Defender's Office celebrates 25 years

Up until the turn of the millennium, low-income criminal defendants across Taos County had few options to exercise their constitutional right to fair representation. The county relied on contract defense attorneys to take on cases, and there weren't very many here.

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Up until the turn of the millennium, low-income criminal defendants across Taos County had few options to exercise their constitutional right to fair representation. The county relied on contract …

08/30/2025

State warns against Eagle Nest Lake algae bloom

Visitors to Eagle Nest Lake are being urged to use caution as a potentially harmful algae bloom forms, the New Mexico Environment Department advised in a press release Monday (Aug. 26).

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Visitors to Eagle Nest Lake are being urged to use caution as a potentially harmful algae bloom forms, the New Mexico Environment Department advised in a press release Monday (Aug.

08/30/2025

Two Graces gallery finds new home

Two Graces gallery, a shop rife with rare books, local artwork and centuries-old curiosities, has found a new home at 135 North Plaza in historic downtown Taos.

For the last 20 years, Robert Cafazzo and Holly Sievers have transformed Two Graces into a curated treasure trove including authentic Hopi Kachina dolls, retablos, local artwork, Southwest literature and Spanish Colonial furniture.

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Two Graces gallery, a shop rife with rare books, local artwork and centuries-old curiosities, has found a new home at 135 North Plaza in historic downtown Taos. For the last

08/30/2025

Tigers scratched another win in Sangre de Cristo

The Taos High School varsity boys' soccer team secured another win Friday (Aug. 29), this time against the Portales Rams, with a final score of 3-1, in the Sangre de Cristo Classic tournament held in Taos Eco Park.

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The Taos High School varsity boys' soccer team secured another win Friday (Aug. 29), this time against the Portales Rams, with a final score of 3-1, in the Sangre de

08/29/2025

Weather Service warns of severe thunderstorms, flash flood risk

The National Weather Service in Albuquerque is advising of increased flash flood risk through Saturday (Aug. 30) as persistent rainfall increasingly runs off soils already saturated by recent thunderstorms in North Central, Eastern New Mexico and other parts of the state.

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The National Weather Service in Albuquerque is advising of increased flash flood risk through Saturday (Aug. 30) as persistent rainfall increasingly runs off soils already saturated by recent thunderstorms in