TorC will purchase electric smart meters for $1 million
…be required to “bring their building up to code” in order to be “compatible” with the new meters. Easley said the “40 or 50” commercial customers will keep their old…
Neomi Martinez-Parra, Democratic candidate for New Mexico Senate, District 35, responds to questions on healthcare, personal finances and more
It took about three weeks, but Democrat Neomi Martinez-Parra, who is running against Crystal Diamond for the state Senate, District 35, which includes Sierra County, answered the Sierra County Sun’s…
Preview of Truth or Consequences City Commission July 8 meeting
…and then subletting space on water tanks and other towers to communications companies. Further, the company manages, operates and maintains the communications equipment and leases. The lease they are seeking…
Crystal Runyan Diamond, candidate for N.M. Senate seat District 35, wouldn’t answer questions
…specific about what you did? 8. Common Core is gone. New Mexico is 50th in the state–when its grades could be compared via national Common Core tests, that is. How…
County Manager and Sheriff’s report on coronavirus management
…over investigations, there have been four complaints, “three from the same person,” Hamilton said. None of the four complaints investigated were determined to be violations of the Governor’s order, he…
Preview: What’s on the agenda for the Truth or Consequences City Commission meeting, Oct. 9
The Truth or Consequences City Commission has two major items on the Oct. 9 regular-meeting agenda. It will consider borrowing money to rehabilitate its vacuum sanitary sewer. A federal loan…
Water rights are only holdup in New Mexico Copper Corporation’s start-up of mining operations
…a year from William Frost and Harris Gray for $1.5 million, which it completed in recent years. That amount was the estimated maximum of “four production wells” on the mine…
Follow-up: TorC will borrow nearly $400,000 to fix sewer vacuum system serving 300 customers
The City of Truth or Consequences City Commission approved an ordinance that will be advertised, giving it legal authority to borrow $373,000 to fix a vacuum system that serves about…
Elephant Butte drafts “conservative” budget, bracing for “tight” year
…was given Sierra del Rio Golf Course in 2018, which includes a restaurant and pro shop. The City has also experienced a lot of staff turnover, which compounded financial problems,…
Sheriff Glenn Hamilton deputized a church; public fears power given to religious sect, lack of vetting, mixing of church and state
…sites at this point, but many people viewed it on Sierra County NM Square’s Facebook page before it was deleted. Of the over 100 people who commented, the vast majority…