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UPDATE: Broadband company working to win BLM construction permit for fiber optics network in southern Sierra County

by Debora Nicoll | May 6, 2021
5 min read

…schools had received through the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). Since Arrey is not served by Sierra Electric Co-op, SWC is burying the school’s fiber optics cables along Highway 187’s public…


Welcome back: Sierra County Farmer’s Market returns to Ralph Edwards Park

by Diana Tittle with photography by Luis Rios and Nathan Maplesden | June 15, 2021
6 min read

…Rios The Sierra County Sun, a 501(c)3 educational organization that publishes local government and public-interest reporting online at www.sierracountysun.org, will be selling black-and-white and color postcards of iconic Sierra County…


Fact checking Dow’s announcement that she is seeking governor’s office in 2022

by Kathleen Sloan | July 21, 2021
12 min read

…email that also solicited campaign funds.   The Sun did a fact check on each of Dow’s assertions in the July 7 announcement, which is downloadable below. The Sun found…


Crip Camp

by Michael Young | April 2, 2021
7 min read

…about hope and compassion. We see how people, sharing so much in common, learn that they are neither invisible nor powerless. We see them grow from adolescents sitting around the…


Remembering Philip Lee Goldston, 1937-2019

by Kathleen Sloan | November 12, 2019
2 min read

…brother, John Goldston and family; cousins, nieces and nephews. Cremation has taken place and a Remembrance Celebration will be planned. Go in peace…until we meet again! Philip Lee (Goldston’s) websitewww.philipleeartist.com


Neomi Martinez-Parra, Democratic candidate for New Mexico Senate, District 35, responds to questions on healthcare, personal finances and more

by Kathleen Sloan | July 24, 2020
11 min read

…the IRS website. In court records I found A Barclays Bank complaint for debt. I found nothing on the IRS website. Without a fulsome explanation, the public would probably doubt…


Neomi Martinez-Parra, running for state Senate District 35, doesn’t respond to questions

by Kathleen Sloan | July 17, 2020
4 min read

…her website, neomi4nmsenate.com, is vague. Healthcare access in rural areas is a problem, the website states, giving the example of her mother and having to drive her great distances for…


Middle Rio Grande Economic Development Association provides blueprint to guide Sierra County out of its “desperate” economic predicament

by Debora Nicoll | January 18, 2021
6 min read

…on the “Download” button below). At the Sierra County Commission’s December meeting, Swingle informed the commissioners only that the assessment was complete and that elements of it would be implemented over…


Will Elephant Butte Lake’s SOS prompt statewide water management reform?

by Diana Tittle | July 6, 2021
17 min read

…president of the board of the Sierra County Sun), pointed out. “New Mexico only has river water because of the Compact.” Rio Grande CompactDownload THE NEW NORMAL Under the leadership…


Foundation for Open Government determines T or C’s fees to deliver requested electronic documents not allowed under state law

by Kathleen Sloan | June 11, 2021
2 min read

…of government. NMFOG Determination LetterDownload Swingle had informed the city commissioners at their May 12 meeting that the city would start charging for IPRA documents “because it takes up staff…


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