2024 True Heroes: Loren Anthony
EARLY LAST WINTER, the fresh snowfall was melting, mixing with the red earth and caliche to become a thick, treacherous mud. The air was bitter cold in the way it gets around Gallup, where…
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2024 True Heroes: Logan Fleharty
ON JUNE 17, the swift ferocity of the Salt and South Fork fires swept into Ruidoso, catching the people of the tight-knit mountain village off guard. “I’ve never seen so much heat and smoke so…
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The Hood Celebrates Art and Culture
THE PLAYFUL definition printed on the door of the Hood in Las Cruces sums up what awaits inside and beyond: the hood (slang) noun : short for “neigh · bor · hood” : community · culture · barrio :…
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True Heroes 2023: Holly and Noelle Chavez
DEBORAH DINGWALL’S 39-YEAR-OLD SON was living at home when he began struggling with mental illness. Despite her efforts to help, she had to ask him to leave when he became aggressive. Suddenly…
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True Heroes 2023: Carmen Baca
THE SPRING MORNING started the same as any other for writer Carmen Baca. But around 2 p.m. on April 6, 2022, from her home in Cañoncito de las Manuelitas, Baca noticed smoke snaking across the sky off…
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2023 True Heroes
Join us on November 16 at 7 p.m. for New Mexico Magazine's True Heroes recognition ceremony on YouTube: @newmexicomag Presented by New Mexico Magazine and KOB 4. CARMEN BACA The longtime Las Vegas…
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Nurturing Community in La Madera
LA MADERA TUCKS INTO A NOOK OF green surrounded by sun-burnished canyons. A few houses perch on gnarled, rocky slopes dotted with dark piñon and juniper trees, but most line the valley floor along the…
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True Heroes 2022: Dr. Jodi Casados & Dr. Levi Maes
DOCTORS JODI CASADOS AND LEVI MAES remember their first Covid-positive patient at La Clínica del Pueblo de Río Arriba, in Tierra Amarilla. Maes put on every piece of the clinic’s personal protective…
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True Heroes 2022: Elizabeth "Liz" Bradford
DURING RAMADAN LAST YEAR, Liz Bradford and her daughter were bringing food to the home of a recently arrived Rwandan student, to break the holy fast. As a teacher with the Albuquerque Public Schools…
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True Heroes 2022: Dr. Sanjeev Arora
ONE MORNING IN 2001, DR. SANJEEV ARORA entered his university clinic in Albuquerque to find a woman and her two children already waiting for him. The woman, who had been living with untreated…
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