Posts by Jeff Proctor

A Rio Rancho municipal court judge on Thursday, Oct. 3, ordered Albuquerque Journal Executive Editor Patrick Ethridge released from the Sandoval County Detention Center, where the 47-year-old newspaperman had been jailed for eight days on a petty misdemeanor shoplifting charge he picked up at a Rio Rancho Walmart in August.  That’s a wild sentence to write,…

Feeling some gloom in your life? Of course you are, but what to do? If you’re a New Mexican, you burn it. That’s the concept behind Zozobra, a 50-foot marionette meant to represent the troubles, hardships and other obstacles of the past year. Into this monster we pour that which has been done to us,…