It’s seen better days, the Historic Taos County Courthouse. And as U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D-NM, toured the iconic building on the Taos Plaza on Wednesday (June 2), she saw first-hand the need for a planned rehabilitation of this long-standing piece of town history.
Town of Taos Mayor Daniel Barrone, Taos County Manager Brent Jaramillo and Taos County Commissioners Darlene Vigil, AnJanette Brush and Candyce O’Donnell presented their proposal to Leger Fernández with the hope she would deliver nearly $1.3 million in support of it.
“It’s a little bit disheveled because we are in the midst of demolition, and organizing things and exploring,”said Richard Sanchez, construction manager for Taos County. “There’s a lot of things that have been done over…