“The Rifters” at Hillsboro Community Center
Set aside Saturday July 20th for “The Rifters” at the Hillsboro Community Center as part of their Summer Concert Series.
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Vets home occupancy delayed due to lack of city water pressure
Truth or Consequences has provided insufficient water pressure to the hospital, elementary schools and the vets home. What other businesses or facilities are suffering? The hospital and vets home paid for and fixed the problem on their own. Your public funds at work--double time.
Political considerations, 6.26.24
The impending retirement of New Mexico's state engineer raises the question of whether it is time to reform state law requiring that influential officeholder to only have expertise in engineering when alternative green infrastructure approaches to water management hold such promise?
Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert
Review of a memoir by Daniel Asa Rose, published by High Road Press, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press, 2023; 296 pages
Stuff you need to know, 6.24.24
How the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Texas and New Mexico's settlement of their decade-old Rio Grande water dispute.
NMFA $16M award requires the city take out a $1.6M loan
Emergency waterline repairs needed south of the hospital and radiating out from Veater Street are a year away. Final design and going out to bid will take that long. The fix will replace 17 percent of the city's water pipes.
Elementary schools can’t flush due to city’s low water pressure
It's a good thing students are on summer break. The fancy new roundabouts and the city's required relocation of its water and sewer pipes may be the source of pressure problems, or it could be that cluster of leaks resulting from the massive water leak on Arrowhead Street.
Upcoming Art Show & Sale
Turtleback Mountain Resort and the Sierra County Arts Council Art Show & Sale will take place June 21st, 22nd & 23rd featuring 50 different local artists.
Sierra Vista Hospital out of compliance with loan—again
Oh for reality-based leadership instead of hunkydoryism. Elected officials bought too much new hospital, evidently expecting more people would move here and pay more in property taxes and gross receipts taxes--the revenue sources expected to pay off the loan. It wasn't enough then and it isn't enough now.
Another taxing district? We’re already taxed for flood control
The Sierra County Commission is trying to get the question of a flood control taxing district on the Nov. 5 ballot without telling the people it is a taxing district.
Stuff you need to know, 5.31.24
"Stuff you need to know" and "Political considerations" are going on summer break.
Gila Wilderness Centennial Kingston events
This series of events happening in Kingston this coming weekend were meant to be included in the previous posting. Please join the folks in Kingston and the surrounding communities for their Gila Wilderness Centennial festivities.