Community activist Ariel Dougherty has approached the City of Truth or Consequences to amend its renewable-energy ordinance, pointing out the need for the City to encourage, not discourage private citizens and businesses from going green. The City’s ordinance makes it cost-prohibitive to go green because it limits the size of the system. The limit ensures […]
Ralph Edwards Park will be renovated for some undisclosed amount of money, breaking ground about April 2020, forcing the Fiesta to hold its May activities elsewhere and displacing the Farmers Market through August 2020, according to O.J. Hechler, Truth or Consequences parks department manager. Hechler presented the park-renovation plans to the Truth or Consequences City
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Water rates will have to go up 35 percent or more if the City of Truth or Consequences wants to keep a $9.4-million loan-grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is a condition of the loan-grant that the city take in over $1.3 million in revenue a year in water-utility fees, in order to
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Morris Madrid, employed one year as city manager, was evaluated by the Truth or Consequences City Commission in executive session, Dec. 11, 2019. The City did not release the results. A two-year contract was signed by Mayor Sandra Whitehead the next day, setting his pay at the same amount, $95,000 a year, from Dec. 28,
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The Elephant Butte City Council will hold two public hearings on land-use matters at the 2 p.m., Jan. 22 meeting. ORDINANCE 174 A public hearing will be held to determine if zoning code should be changed to no longer allow storage containers permanently in residential districts. The amended ordinance would allow them temporarily if the
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There are three “discussion/action” items on the Truth or Consequences City Commission agenda, none of them listed as public hearings, with scant information in the packet. LIVE/WORK DOWNTOWN Once again Mayor Pro-Tem Kathy Clark has put “live/work downtown” on the agenda for the fourth time in two years. It is a discussion/action item. At the
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DIANA TITTLE January 7, 2020 Maggie Toulouse Oliver New Mexico Secretary of State Office of the Secretary of State 325 Don Gaspar, Suite 300 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 Dear Secretary Toulouse Oliver: Last August, Sharon Pino, then the deputy secretary of state, denied my request for an investigation into the impact of security and
Just as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently met behind closed doors with special-interest groups on Spaceport America, so did local elected officials, only they didn’t announce they were doing so to the press. The Sierra County Sun heard about the possible formation of an informal group at an open Elephant Butte City Commission meeting in
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The Truth or Consequences City Commission approved an application it will submit jointly with the Village of Williamsburg for $1.5 million to replace Mona and Doris streets’ sewer and water pipes in the Village, and to fix the streets after construction. The City owns the water pipes in the Village. The City will pay a
UPDATE, January 20, 2020 January 14 was the day candidates could withdraw and write-in candidates could declare themselves. Julie Rackow, a candidate for Seat 2, withdrew, leaving four people running for the seat. Kathy Clark, currently mayor pro tem and occupying Seat 4, withdrew, but Sophia Peron filed the empty slot as a write-in candidate.
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What is and isn’t on the agenda as well as what is or isn’t in the information packet are equally important for business to be or not to be conducted at the Truth or Consequences City Commission meeting Jan. 8, 2020. Not on the Agenda Not on the agenda is the local residents’ initiative ordinance
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GERONIMO SPRINGS MUSEUM HISTORY CLUB Geronimo Springs Museum’s History Club was created to give the citizens of Truth or Consequences and Sierra County a chance to come together and explore all the various aspects of this incredible place. With a history going back 500 years, a rich prehistory of millennia and coming right up to
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There’s still time to express your opposition to Holloman Air Force Base’s proposed expansion of its F-16 training airspace by as much as seven million additional acres over southwestern New Mexico. The expansion will enable the Albuquerque AFB to double its F-16 training sorties to nearly 20,000 annually, during which pilots will discharge an estimated
Philip Lee Goldston passed away at 3:37 AM on October 24, 2019 at home in Truth or Consequences, NM. He was 82 years old. Philip was born in 1937 in Washington D.C. where his father was a policeman in the White House. He went to school early and always remembered a visit to the White
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Barbara Pearlman is running for school board primarily “because I see a lack of respect for teachers, parents, students and schools. We need better communication.” Pearlman the only candidate with experience as a public-school teacher, has been retired for two years. She is intimately familiar with the local school system, having served in teaching positions
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It’s ironic that H. Joe Waldrum, the artist most known for capturing New Mexico’s adobe churches and moradas of the mysterious Penitente brotherhood, was himself not religious. That is not to say he didn’t understand. His severe style perfectly mirrors the architectural purity that expresses their devoutness. With a secular devotion he did much to
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“Ando en Cueros is based on my belief that the art world has fallen in with bad company and lurched awry. Herein are some of my thoughts: some are old, some are fresh, some are intransigent, some are faltering as I turn sixty and wiser.” ––Ando en cueros (I Walk Stark-naked), Harold Joe Waldrum, 1994As
The Elephant Butte City Council didn’t act at the Oct. 2 meeting, but decided to continue negotiating with Spirit Golf Management on a management agreement for Sierra del Rio Golf Course. A sticking point is how to handle the negative returns in the first few years it will take to make the golf course, restaurant
After being without a city manager for three months, the Elephant Butte City Council hired Vicki Ballinger at the Oct. 2 meeting. She was not in attendance, but on a social media account she said, “Super excited to announce that on October 21 I will assume the role of City Manager for the City of
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