At the request of our interim General Manager Mark “Spanky” Harding, a reporter from Searchlight New Mexico, Michael Benanav, came to Timberon a few weeks ago and interviewed several people in town. He spent a lot of time, talked to several residents, and took a lot of pictures. Unfortunately, I was not at work that […]
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Our long-time postmistress retired and consequently, the Timberon Post Office closed after 40 years of service to the Timberon community. It was a contracted site, and the contract agreement did not cover the actual costs of maintaining the post office inside a building for the community, so nobody picked up the contract to continue it.
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On my bi-weekly shopping trip, I was turned around in Cloudcroft. Big fire engine blocking U.S. Route 82 (the main road to Alamogordo from Cloudcroft). The fire department personnel working the traffic let me know that there was a rockslide on the Alamogordo side of the tunnel, and it would be closed all day and
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I was at work, of course, so I took the picture from the front of the building. That’s the new fire station in the background. It melted as soon as it hit the parking lot asphalt, but it was pretty while it lasted. Big fat flakes. It’s early this year. Word on the mountain says
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The Timberon Golf Course, which looks like a dead field most of the year, always comes back during the monsoon season. Lots of rain followed by sunny days really kick it up, and she looks beautiful. Maybe not to a golf pro, but to me she does. In the evenings, the deer and elk come
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On my bi-weekly shopping trip today, I passed the Army’s all-terrain snow tractor parked in its designated spot on the Sunspot Highway. I look forward to seeing this guy every year. The front plate reads US ARMY. I’ve never seen it deployed, but apparently, it can go anywhere. It’s armored, like a little tank, and
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