Steve Cox, risk management and safety director at the New Mexico State Veterans Home, and Kathy Kunkel look down at the pool at the annex building at the New Mexico State Veterans Home that was built in 2017 but never worked due to failed water pumping system. Thanks to recent funding, there are renewed hopes to get the pool functioning in the coming months. Photograph by Gabriela Campos/The New Mexican
Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.