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March 11, 2024
73rd Annual T or C Fiesta Golf Tournament
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February 22, 2024
Input on plan and design ideas for a newly constructed skate park located at Ralph Edwards Park
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February 21, 2024
Information regarding the March 19, 2024 Special Election
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January 23, 2024
City Advisory Board Vacancies
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January 12, 2024
Our New Website is LIVE!
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May 02, 2023
Revize websites come with Citizen Engagement Web Applications
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A LITTLE ABOUT TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
The area is noted for its hot springs, and the first public bath in the area was built at John Cross Ranch over Geronimo Springs in the late 19th century. The hot springs are part of the Hot Springs Artesian Basin. However, major settlement did not begin until the construction of Elephant Butte Dam and its reservoir in 1912; the dam was completed in 1916. It was a part of the Rio Grande Project, an early large-scale irrigation effort authorized under the Newlands Reclamation Act of...