Town leaders said they were prepared for floods. First responders disagree.

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https://sourcenm.com/2026/10/21/town-leaders-said-they-were-prepared-for-floods-first-responders-disagree/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53305717

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Dear volunteers and troop leaders, I'm writing to share that Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails has completed the sale of Rancho del Chaparral to the Pueblo of Jemez. We wanted you to hear directly from us before this news is shared more broadly with families and the public.

Rancho holds decades of memories for many in our Girl Scout community. This sale is also significant because of who will steward the land next. We are grateful that the Pueblo of Jemez will shape its future.

In language provided for the announcement, the Pueblo of Jemez shared: "The land will give tribal members the opportunity to rediscover and explore the cultural landscape that is mentioned in the Pueblo's tribal history."

The sale creates a one-time opportunity to invest in the council's long-term sustainability. It will also help put the Every Girl Strategy into action, with better support for the troops and volunteers serving girls today and new ways for girls to participate.

It was announced earlier this year that GSNMT was unable to maintain their Rancho Del Chaparral Scout Camp and was having to sell it. I was very worried some rich asshole would buy it and turn it into some commercial hunting grounds.

I am very happy to hear that it was purchased by the Pueblo of Jemez.

Socorro County is getting hit hard by a storm moving through the area and is issuing an emergency declaration to request funding from the state while emergency personnel work to keep the community safe. After receiving 3-4 inches of rain over the weekend and 3 and a half to 4 inches expected Tuesday, county officials said they haven’t seen anything like this before.

For context this area gets ~10-12 inches of precipitation annually, and already had another 3-4 inches the week before.

Edit: one source puts their rainfall this year at over 12", with almost 6 of those inches this month alone.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputies took a man into custody Wednesday after he showed up outside their headquarters with multiple Flock cameras in the back of his pickup truck.

Authorities arrested Jevon Martinez for damaging Flock cameras in Rio Rancho in May. Then, Wednesday, he posted video on social media appearing to show him driving around Albuquerque and taking down automated license plate readers once again.

In those videos, he comments that since the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office ended its contract with Flock last month, those cameras should no longer be out on the streets.

"Just for the record, I am not stealing these. I am not destroying them. I am simply returning them to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department,” he said in one video.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Thursday announced his support for two legal challenges to the Project Jupiter data center pending before the state Supreme Court.

Two environmental groups — the Santa Fe-based New Energy Economy and the national Center for Biological Diversity — in August filed petitions with the New Mexico Supreme Court challenging proceedings for the massive Oracle and OpenAI data center campus under construction in Doña Ana County

New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard on Thursday shot down a Canadian company’s pitch to build a solar-powered data center at Spaceport America.

Green Data CEO Jason Bak has been in talks with Spaceport officials for years about building a data center on the property, which is on leased state trust land. Bak has engaged in those talks on behalf of another one of his companies, Aetherion.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico man was arrested after allegedly shooting and killing his cousin during an argument over whose plate of green chile enchiladas was hotter.

Ervin Joaquin Gutierrez, 22, was charged with an open count of murder in the Aug. 27 killing of 25-year-old Nathaniel Cavazos.

State working to launch new livestock inspector program to fill ‘critical’ need

Owner of well-drilling company says he was ‘just doing what I was asked to do’ under federal contract

Local officials said in addition to grappling with natural disasters, they were also responding to a new AI news outlet named Prism McKinley County that they say has regularly published false and misleading information in a time of crisis.

For instance, within the last week, Prism published a story about a woman drowning in floods, but the death occurred last year, according to Matt Robinson, Gallup’s tourism and marketing manager. The misleading story caused people to believe the recent floods caused her death, he said. The recent flooding has not caused any deaths or injuries, according to city officials.

“They’re taking things that happened years ago that are negative, bringing them to light, scaring people, and sharing false information,” Robinson said. “It’s really not a good thing.”

Other misleading or false stories include one July 18 that reported that two women were robbed and beaten at a Walmart. The article goes on to say that the robbery actually occurred March 3, 2020, and Police Chief Erin Toadlena-Pablo told Source NM she does not know where the outlet got its information.

Beginning Saturday, roughly 500 Democratic Party of New Mexico members will begin casting ballots to replace Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver as the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor in the Nov. 3 general election.

Toulouse Oliver dropped out of the race June 18 citing health reasons shortly after handily winning the June 2 primary election against State Sen. Harold Pope (D-Albuquerque). In the month since, candidates waged a mini-campaign targeted at members of the Democratic Party’s State Central Committee, composed of party insiders that members elect at the county level.

Four candidates — Pope, Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard, Geoffrey Luehring and Toni Pinedo — have jumped in to replace Toulouse Oliver, though Pope and Garcia Richard have done the most campaigning. Haaland endorsed Garcia Richard as her running mate.

The New Mexico Environment Department will hold a public hearing in Sunland Park in October over whether to approve data center Project Jupiter’s controversial air quality permit application.

Developer Yucca Growth Infrastructure’s application shows plans to use fuel cell technology to power the OpenAI and Oracle data center. The technology can convert natural gas, biogas or hydrogen into electricity and documents filed as part of the air quality permit application shows they rely on natural gas pipelines. The permit, if approved, would allow the project to emit more greenhouse gases annually than Albuquerque and Las Cruces combined.