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Hubble Space Telescope spots geysers on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. With liquid water and energy from the moon’s internal tidal forces, the moon could fit the scientific definition of a habitable world. LIFE & SCIENCE, A-12
The Universit University of New Mexico men’s basketball takes on flagging Jayhawks on Saturday. SPORTS, B-1
Oil fuels backlash in Lamy
Lawsuit: Officer fired for reporting prostitution An ex-state officer says he was fired after reporting that a fellow cop was having sex with prostitutes. PAGE, A-5
S.F. High principal takes AD position Leslie Romero-Kilmer to replace Kim Loomis, who resigned in September By James Barron The New Mexican
Parke Duttenhofer walks along the railroad spur by the Lamy Rail Road Depot on Friday in Lamy, where it is proposed that railroad tankers will be loaded with crude oil from semitruck tankers. Duttenhofer is one of the residents in Lamy who is concerned about plans to offload crude oil from tanker trucks to railcars near the old depot for shipment to refineries. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN
Plan to unload crude oil at old depot sparks fears in residents By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
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anta Fe Southern Railway might have discovered a way to make some money by allowing tanker trucks to offload crude oil into specialized train cars at the company’s property in Lamy. Revenue from the project could help revive the excursion train between Santa Fe and Lamy that was shut down last year. But the idea worries some Lamy residents. “It surprised us,” said Parke Duttenhofer, a custom cabinetmaker who serves as president of the Lamy Community Association. Duttenhofer, who lives across from the site where the tanker trucks would transfer oil, said the rail company’s owner had called him a couple of
months ago about the plan. “As a community, we are very concerned about spills,” he said. “It is within a few hundred feet of our community well. I’m not an expert, but I would think one spill would be bad. “We’re also concerned about fire hazards and traffic on our two-lane county road [County Road 33],” Duttenhofer said. “Six to eight tanker trucks a day would impact us a lot.” Bob Sarr, who worked for decades with Santa Fe Southern Railway, told the Lamy Community Water Association board recently that six to eight tanker trucks a day would move the oil. Karl Ziebarth, owner of Santa Fe Southern Railway, said the project isn’t firm yet, “but we have had inquiries from shipping companies. It is economically attractive for them to bring the oil by truck to the railroad,” Ziebarth said. He said shipping crude oil and natural gas by rail is nothing new and that Burlington Northern Santa Fe, which owns the main track that Santa Fe South-
ern Railway connects with in Lamy, are experts in hauling crude oil and natural gas. Santa Fe Southern Railway owns property along the rail line, the Lamy Y siding and the Lamy Depot. Lack of money forced Santa Fe Southern Railway to stop running its Lamy excursion train out of the Santa Fe Railyard. Ziebarth said contracts for hauling freight, such as delivering boxcars of beer to the Premiere Distributing site in Santa Fe, had supported the train operation. That contract ended when Burlington Northern Santa Fe changed its operations. “If we’re going to get our little train back to Lamy, we have to be able to generate the revenues that come from something besides the excursion service,” Ziebarth said. Oklahoma-based Pacer Energy Marketing is interested in Lamy as a possible transfer location. The company is closed on Fridays and no one was
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Leslie Romero-Kilmer’s work with the athletic department at Santa Fe High School caught the attention of Santa Fe Public School administrators. So much so, they offered the Santa Fe High principal the district’s athletic director position, which RomeroLeslie Kilmer accepted Romeroon Friday. RomeroKilmer Kilmer, who has been principal at the school since 2012, will start her new position on Jan. 6, and Santa Fe High Assistant Principal Patrick Lenihan will take over Romero-Kilmer’s duties in the interim. Romero-Kilmer takes the position vacated by Kim Loomis, who resigned in September at Capital High School amid a rash of academically ineligible players who caused the Jaguars to forfeit wins in varsity
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Not only in Newtown: 91 kids killed by gunfire in ’l2 By Greg Jaffe, Julie Tate and Jennifer Jenkins The Washington Post
Byrnes to step down as head of Santa Fe Community Foundation Organization plans to launch nationwide search for president next month By Anne Constable The New Mexican
Brian Byrnes is stepping down as president and CEO of the Santa Fe Community Foundation next year to pursue a more contemplative life. “He’s been chewing on this [plan] for some time and is in a new spiritual place,” said Hervey Juris, chairman of the board of the nonprofit. “It’s a different path consistent with his interest in social justice.” Earlier this year, Byrnes was ordained a Zen priest and has been giving public dharma talks on topics such as generosity, philanthropy and leadership at the Upaya Zen Center on Cerro Gordo Road.
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The foundation will begin a national search next month to replace Byrnes. He will remain in his position until July 1 to help the board find his replacement. As president of the foundation since 2009, Byrnes Brian Byrnes increased its philanthropic assets under management from $25 million to nearly $70 million, according to a news release. And under his leadership over the past four-and-ahalf years, the foundation has distributed $16.5 million to organizations in Santa Fe, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel and Taos counties. Byrnes’ national contacts, Juris said, “were useful in connecting us with national foundations” and “bringing national thought into the community.”
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Santa Fe Desert Chorale The 2013 Winter Festival opens with Carols and Lullabies, 8 p.m., Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place, $15-$65; discounts available, desertchorale.org, 988-2282.
Budgettogetvotes Senate expected to pass bipartisan budget legislation. PAGE A-3
Obituaries Today Partly cloudy. High 35, low 19.
Katherine R. Casados, Dec. 9 Zane M. Goodwin, 82, Dec. 7 Frances Padilla Martinez, Dec. 10
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The man with the gun burst into the apartment and opened fire. The first victim was a young woman, dead at 21. The second victim was her 25-year-old roommate. But it was the third victim who would cause the most anguished screams when the bodies were discovered. Shot in the head, he was a 6-month-old boy. The killing of Carlton Stringer Jr. was the first of nearly a hundred such killings of young children in 2012, a year that would include the deaths of 20 students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The Newtown killings horrified the country and provoked angry debates over access to the most lethal firearms. A year later, the anger and grief caused by the deaths continue to be felt. So, too, do the ripples from the other killings, of which there were at least 71, bringing the year’s total to at least 91, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. The list, which focused on children 10 years of age and under who were victims of a deliberate shooting, was compiled
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