Photo by Gaea McGahee – DECEMBER 2020: COMMUNITY NEWS Angels Among Us at the Food Pantry, by Staff Writers: A truckload of 240 turkeys purchased from the Questa Center Supermarket was distributed at the North Central New Mexico Food Pantry on November 20. An anonymous angel among us donated this gift to the community. Thank you, angel! 
Photo from Wikipedia: JANUARY 2021: FISHING, RECREATION & WILDLIFE Helping Birds Through the Winter, by Bryce Flanagan: Our communities have the opportunity to help out the local bird population this winter as temperatures and snow begin to fall. 
Photo by Martha Shepp: FEBRUARY 2021: QUARANTINE QUISINE Valentines Day and Chocolate: Ancient Ritual in a New World, by Caroline Yezer: As it turns out, southwest indigenous peoples were the first chocoholics in North America, consuming the beverage in Chaco Canyon over 1,000 years ago! 
Photo by E. Wilde: MARCH 2021: COMMUNITY NEWS OCHO art + event space, End of an Era, by Lou McCall: The building at #8 Highway 38 in downtown Questa has a rich multifunctional history as religious space, dance hall, boxing ring, union hall, light industrial building, and most recently: art studio and gallery. Barrie Andrews and Min Jae Hong, the current owners, have decided they will put the property on the market. 
Photo by Martha Shepp APRIL 2021: ARTS & CULTURE Northern NM Music: Past & Present project, by Martha Shepp: Musician and Project Director Chris Arellano has interviewed men who have been part of Los Penitentes Brotherhood who were willing to share the traditions, tunes, and lyrics. He describes, “There is a deep spiritual journey through the lyrics (prayers) and the melodies are sung a capella.” 
Courtesy Photo MAY 2021: COVER STORY Renee Martinez awarded NM municipal clerk of the year, by Lynn Skall: Congratulations to Questa’s own Renee Martinez for receiving the New Mexico Municipal Clerk of the Year Award! She was recognized at a surprise luncheon in the Questa Village Council Chambers on April 15. It was a festive occasion, with lots of photos and food provided by Mayor Mark Gallegos and El Monte Carlo Grill. 
Photo by Carrie Leven: JUNE 2021: COVER STORY Grand Opening Celebration of Questa History Trail on National Trails Day, by Staff Writers: The founders of Questa’s History Trail were amazed to learn just how much our remote village is a microcosm of northern New Mexico’s past. If you’ve not yet been introduced to the trail, you can be amazed by this local history yourself on Saturday, June 5, when local historian Flavio Cisneros leads a guided walk along the half-mile route. 
Photo by Daniel Hutchison JULY 2021: COVER STORY Bud Wilson, Adventure and Service, by Daniel Hutchison: Bud Wilson was born in 1925 in the suburbs of Chicago, but forged his connection with northern New Mexico when he was just 16 years old, on a high school summer research trip to San Cristobal, NM. He worked as a ranch hand in the Latir area. The year was 1942, and he recalls that the highway turned to dirt at the New Mexico border! 
Photo by Patrick Hutchison AUGUST 2021: EDUCATION Vida Day Camp, Summer 2021, by Rachel Kuc: This summer, 52 kids from the Questa area came to Vida Day Camp, organized by Localogy in partnership with Vida Del Norte, Taos Behavioral Health, Questa Farmers Market, Questa Stories, Yoga Sala, Trout Unlimited, QEDF, Questa Public Library, North Central Food Pantry, and the Village of Questa. Kids explored our resilient watershed and foodshed with trips to local farms and streams. 
Photo by Ann Gonzales SEPTEMBER 2021: COVER STORY Questeño Daniel Gonzales Wins Emmy! by Lou McCall: Daniel Gonzales spent years with his team, perfecting the technology that led to their Sports Emmy for coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ in Paris in the category of Outstanding Technical Team Studio. 
Coutesy Photo OCTOBER 2021: BUSINESS PROFILE Northern Designs, Designing for the Region, by Jennifer Mooney: Celina Rael Trujillo of Amalia has creatively developed products to promote area businesses, causes, families and organizations. “We do embroidery, hats, T-shirts, jackets… we can print your logo on mugs, banners, or water bottles.” 
Photo by Toner Mitchell NOVEMBER 2021: 4TH ANNUAL VETERANS ISSUE AWOL Angler, by Toner Mitchell: “In the military, you always have support and a common mission… Then you come home, and suddenly you’re searching for who you are.” Perhaps unwittingly, Dyer found his way back to fly fishing and decided to get good at it. He found that the harder he tried to master angling, the more thoughts of trout supplanted the stuff of his recurring nightmares. Fly fishing gave him something to look forward to, “a new horizon” as he puts it.
