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  • TONA Community Meeting and Meet and Greet on May 2nd

    There is going to be a community meeting and meet and greet on May 2nd at the former residence of Jean Louis Bourgeois. It will start at 2pm. There will be a vote on the TONA bylaws. There is one open question about the association bylaws, whether TONA will have a $10 per year annual…

  • Remembering Mike Mabry

    Tres Orejas lost one of its more notable long time residents this week, Mike Mabry. He passed away last Wednesday after a long and interesting life. He left behind his wife Peg,  his daughter Elizabeth, four sons, Michael Lee, Steven, David and Mat, and many grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his eldest daughter…

  • Solare Wins Quiet Title Suit

    A judgment was filed today in favor of Arianna Solare’s adverse possession claim on part of the large parcel of abandoned Great Southwestern land in unit 3 of Carson Estates. The claims of fraud in the color of title were disregarded in the judgment among other details of the ruling. The part of the original…

  • Bourgeois Estate Donates all of Jean Louis Bourgeois’s Property in Tres Orejas to Veterans Off Grid

    At Wednesday’s TONA meeting, Ryan Timmerman from Veteran’s Off Grid showed up and we were informed that all of Jean Louis Bourgeois’s property in Tres Orejas had been donated to their organization. We had a friendly talk with them. This property includes two houses and two large parcels of undeveloped land that Jean Louis purchased…

  • TONA is not a Homeowners Association

    It’s been over 2 months since the Solare quiet title suit trial and as of yet no verdict has been delivered. I’ll report it as soon as it happens. In the meantime, I’m going to respond to a something posted on the Tres Orejas Bulletin board, a cardboard sign saying: NO HOA. I know how…

  • Solare on Trial

    The Arianna Solare/Golden River quiet trial suit finally went to trial yesterday. I was physically present for the first part of the trial in the morning and viewed the rest of it on the Google Meets Taos district court feed. The trial is to establish if she’s has acquired title through adverse possession and, if…

  • Land Grab Attempt Goes to Trial Next Week

    The Golden River/Arianna Solare case goes to trial next week on November 5th and 6th at 9am in Taos District Court presided over by judge Jeffry Shannon. It will be a bench trial decided by the judge, not a jury trial. At the most recent hearing this past Monday October 27th, motions a motion for…

  • Update on the Quiet Title Suit and Neighborhood Association

    This is an overdue update on both the upcoming bench trial in the Solare/Golden River quiet title suit in unit 3 and the Tres Orejas Neighborhood Association meetings we’ve held recently. Last week, the Tres Orejas Neighborhood filed a friends of the court brief in the suit. I authored the text and used information about…

  • History of the First Land Grab Attempt in 2004

    This is the history of the first attempt of Arianna Solare to claim a 50 acre parcel of Great Southwestern Land in 2004. It is referenced from the actual court documents along with coverage by the Taos News and a few other documents. I am going to follow the suit brief by brief and hearing…

  • Monday Update: Solare’s Motion Denied and 3rd TONA Meeting

    There was a hearing this morning on the “Motion to Reconsider the Court’s Order Denying Motion to Reopen Case and Set Aside Default Judgment”. This is the second attempt by Ariana Solare’s two attorneys to reopen the 2004 case. They attempted once again to argue that the intervenors in 2004 had no legal standing to…