SCORE is doing its bit to promote business in Santa Fe.

The business-assistance group will offer eight free seminars starting Tuesday, May 1. All will be at the Santa Fe Business Incubator, 3900 Paseo del Sol, and are sponsored by the city of Santa Fe's Economic Development Division.

For more information, call 424-1140 or visit www.santafescore.org for seminar content and presenter backgrounds.

SCORE's email is scoreseminars@hotmail.com.

All the seminars run from 6 to 8 p.m., with registration at 5:45 p.m.

The first seminar is Developing a Business Plan.

The next seven are:

Wednesday -- Financial Planning and Money Management.

Thursday -- Practical Accounting: Organizing and Using Financial Information.

May 8 -- Legal Structures for Your Business.

May 9 -- Effectively Marketing Your Business.

May 10 -- Creating Your Website and Getting Visitor Traffic.

May 15 -- Web Strategies Buffet.

May 17 -- Social Media Nuts and Bolts.


Marc Bertram of SF Brown Real Estate and David Oberstein confirmed last week that they had purchased a building at 2710 Sawmill Road, Santa Fe, for $2.2 million.

The 38,000-square-foot building is occupied by ABC Supply Co. Inc.

"We continue to see great opportunities in this market as well as [in] Albuquerque," Bertram said in an email. "I believe we have seen the bottom in commercial real estate in New Mexico, and we are looking at further acquisitions in both cities."

Bertram added: "A combination of good values and historically low interest rates make this an excellent time to move back into commercial real estate."

For more information, call 473-7740, ext. 13.


Three different Santa Fe book clubs have chosen the same novel for their May reading selection — The Origin of Sorrow by Robert Mayer.

The local author, who will join in club discussions of the historical novel, says he did not solicit the selections. "The book is just getting wonderful word of mouth," he said.

Under his other cap, that of writing instructor, Mayer is seeking participants for his May-June writing workshop. The weekly three-hour sessions begin May 15. The fee for seven weeks is $285 plus tax. For more information, visit www.writers-workshop.net or call 438-0012.


They're almost done -- the folks on Cerrillos Road, that is.

The Cerrillos Road Reconstruction Project between Cielo Court and Camino Carlos Rey is close to completion, with several temperature-sensitive items remaining.

Drivers are asked to be cautious and obey posted speed limits along Cerrillos Road for their own safety and the safety of workers. For more information, contact Desirae Lujan, project engineer, at 955-6654 or Tom Hunt, project manager, at 975-6634.


Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library is hosting a used book sale at the Southside Branch Library on April 28 to 29. The branch is at 6599 Jaguar Drive.

Hundreds of books of all types will be available. The sale is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. The sale will have specially priced and discounted books. Sunday is "bag day" at $3 a bag.

Funds from the sale are used by the group to purchase new books for the library.