Community Service Announcement: 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, T or C Indivisible, Nov
…of radar-deflecting chaff fibers. INFORMATION YOU’LL NEED TO COMMENT Impact reports, helpfully digesting the AF’s thousand-page Draft Environment Impact Statement (DEIS), are available at www.peacefulgilaskies.com, an informational website organized by…
$50,000 wastewater asset management plan will ID future projects
…wastewater treatment system, implementing the plan and appointing an asset management plan steering committee. But the belated timing of the commission’s enabling resolution is confusing. City staff applied for the…
Making Sense of Sierra County’s 2020 Property Taxes
…the coffers of Sierra Vista Hospital, the Sierra Soil & Water Conservation District and the Sierra County Office of Flood Control. Everyone in Sierra County, whether owners of residential or…
“Riverwalk” ideas get thumbs down from community
…project’s scope of work, described in the Wilson contract, did not come before the city commission for review and discussion. The commission’s involvement was limited to approving the city’s application…
The seeds of independence
…start making space [for organic produce] in either the Community Garden [in T or C] or their personal garden.” Zimmerman said. To further the goal of educating the community,…
City Attorney’s “order” and “findings of fact” offer up alternative reality
…a computer in order to create the bill. The elaborate billing procedure was added to Rubin’s Order before the city commission approved the document, making it appear the city commission…
Debt paid off with utility fees not “debt” according to state law
…claim the City is not and cannot be overextended given state and lender oversight. The Sun focused on the City’s biggest lender, which is also a state governmental entity, the…
Analysis: Why Truth or Consequences City Commissioners don’t have to be transparent
…used to maintain them in good order. In a prior article– READ THE FULL ARTICLE –the Sierra County Sun, using City documents, demonstrated the City is losing nearly 20 percent…
Fact checking Dow’s announcement that she is seeking governor’s office in 2022
…a country where a communicable disease was present.” Title 42 Expulsions are administered by the Border Patrol’s Office of Field Operations, which also oversees Title 8 Inadmissibles. The U.S. Border…
UPDATE: Broadband company working to win BLM construction permit for fiber optics network in southern Sierra County
…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…