One of Our 50 Is Missing: March 2024
DELIVERING THE GOODS A resident of greater Boston, BETSY MILLANE wrote to chronicle the struggle she encountered while trying to send an expedited package through the United States Postal Service…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: January/February 2024
Illustration by Chris Philpot. GIVE AND LET LIVE During the holiday season, Albuquerque’s V. ORGANICK ordered a gift for her husband from Amazon. The item’s two-day Prime shipping originated in…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: December 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE CAROL MOHOLT moved to New Mexico three years ago. “I enjoy reading your monthly reports,” she writes. “But I couldn’t believe it could happen…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: November 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. DEEP SOUTH Both BRUCE MORRISON of Elephant Butte and CATHARINE STRINGFELLOW of Rio Rancho wrote to apprise us of a web article making the rounds titled “The Best Lake…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: October 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. FULL PLATE White Rock resident STEVE FOLTYN was getting ready to register a “year of manufacture” license plate for an antique car when he fell into a rabbit hole about…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: September 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. NM FOR THE WIN HEATHER MCCLENAHAN of Las Cruces alerted us to the fact that NBC “lost” New Mexico in its prerace coverage of the 107th Indy 500. One of the factoids…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: August 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. WHERE’S THE BEACH? Years ago, RAYMOND PUFFER was a brand-new ensign in the Navy, assigned to what was then Sandia Base, in Albuquerque. Back in Michigan, his mother, a…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: July 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. A PRESCRIPTION FOR FRUSTRATION Former Rio Rancho resident NANCY BELL once traveled from New Mexico to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. While there, she needed to refill a…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: June 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. ROAD TRIPPER A 1972 graduate of St. Pius X High School, in Albuquerque, LOUIE CASTORIA was hanging out at the Ace Hardware in Half Moon Bay, California, when a…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: May 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. SALAMI SHENANIGANS In 1966, RAY GOLDSTEIN was a graduate student in Las Cruces. As a native New Yorker in the land of green chile, he was also sorely missing the taste…
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