Oct. 8, 2025: City Manager Mark Scott says he has seen a draft report on a study to determine the feasibility of rebuilding the destroyed Soldiers' Monument — toppled by protesters on Indigenous Peoples Day in 2020 — and restoring it on the Plaza. The findings have not yet been released to the public.

March 16, 2025: A member of the fraternal organization Union Protectiva de Santa Fe shows The New Mexican photos of fragments of the obelisk held in storage at the Santa Fe Regional Airport, after the group had visited the site. Virgil Vigil, the group's president, said, “The stone pieces of the obelisk are so destroyed that you can’t put it together."

Feb. 26, 2025: The Santa Fe City Council approves $100,000 for the study on the toppled obelisk.

Jan. 13, 2025: City crews begin the

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