Employee Problems at the District Attorney's Office
- Category: Front Page News Front Page News
- Published: 26 February 2024 26 February 2024
By Frost McGahey, Investigative Journalist
When Michael Renteria was elected as District Attorney for the 6th Judicial District, he inherited a DA's office of 34 people that were doing 27 criminal and 5 civil trials a year. Of those 34 people, 27 have left and that office, now staffed with 60 people, is doing only 6 trials a year.
On top of that, three Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuits were filed by women in the office who have subsequently left.
One of the complainants is Anjulie Vega who started in the DA's office in 2014 and whose last position was senior legal secretary to Cynthia Clark. "I heard Renteria screaming at Cynthia over the phone. He made her life so miserable she quit under duress. Quitting was the last thing she wanted to do." (Clark later filed an EEOC complaint.)
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Southern Gila Foothills/Mimbres Valley-Southwest Desert/Mimbres Basin-Sierra County Lakes-Northern Dona Ana County-Southern Dona Ana County/Mesilla Valley-Otero Mesa-Central Grant County/Silver City Area-East Central Tularosa Basin/Alamogordo-Southeast Tularosa Basin-Western El Paso County-Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains-Salt Basin-Southern Hudspeth Highlands / Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties-Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County-Including the cities of Cornudas, Tornillo, Mimbres, Indian Hot Springs, Grant County Airport, Hatch, Hueco Tanks, Alamogordo, Spaceport, Fabens, Loma Linda, Dell City, Fort Bayard, Sunland Park, Holloman AFB, Garfield, Derry, Downtown El Paso, Columbus, Orogrande, Faywood, Deming, Vado, Las Cruces, Radium Springs,
Silver City, Salt Flat, Tularosa, Upper Valley, West El Paso,
Truth Or Consequences, Hurley, Fort Hancock, Sierra Blanca, and Crow Flats 305 AM MST Mon Feb 26 2024
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 11 PM MST TUESDAY...
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West Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet-Sacramento
Mountains Above 7500 Feet-East Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below
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Including the cities of Kingston, Sunspot, Pinon, Timberon,
Mountain Park, Cloudcroft, Apache Summit, Mayhill, Mescalero,
Sacramento, and Lake Roberts
305 AM MST Mon Feb 26 2024
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 PM MST
TUESDAY...
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Uplands of the Bootheel-Eastern Black Range Foothills-
Including the cities of Hillsboro, Winston, and Cloverdale
305 AM MST Mon Feb 26 2024
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 PM MST
TUESDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 35 to 45 mph with gusts up to 65 mph expected.
* WHERE...Eastern Black Range Foothills and Uplands of the Bootheel.
Grant County Commission work session 020624 and regular meeting 020824, part 5
- Category: Front Page News Front Page News
- Published: 25 February 2024 25 February 2024
[Editor's Note: This is the fifth of a series of articles on the Feb. 6, 2024, Grant County Commission work session and Feb. 8, 2024, regular meeting. This continues with the work session review of the regular meeting agenda and elected officials' reports.]
By Mary Alice Murphy
The first elected official report at the regular meeting on Feb. 8, 2024 came from Treasurer Patrick Cohn, after Clerk Marisa Castrillo said she had no report.
Cohn talked about the tax maintenance report as of Jan. 31, 2024.
About 100 friends show up to honor Sister Rita Plante
- Category: Front Page News Front Page News
- Published: 25 February 2024 25 February 2024
Photos and article by Mary Alice Murphy
On Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, more than 100 people showed up at a huge potluck at the Silver City Woman's Club to honor, thank and send off with best wishes Sister Rita Plante of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She has served the community for 20 years. She left the following day to return to the Nazareth Motherhouse of the order in Concordia, KS.
The Sisters of St. Joseph have served for almost 100 years in Grant County, as teachers at St. Mary's Academy, and in other positions since the closing of the school. Sister Rita served as a chaplain for many years at Gila Regional Medical Center, as well as hosting a large prayer group, to which many of the guests on Sunday belonged. One photo will show part of the group.