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PETERS NAMED DETENTION CENTER DIRECTOR FOR DOÑA ANA COUNTY - 09/25/2019
Doña Ana County Manager Fernando R. Macias announced the appointment of Daniel Peters as Director of the Doña Ana County Detention Center.

In this role, Peters will be in charge of the entire detention center facility. He brings broad experience in public service and as an independent consultant to private prison corporations. Most recently, Peters was warden at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility for the New Mexico Corrections Department in Las Cruces.

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PET OF THE WEEK FOR SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 - 09/23/2019

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CRAWFORD ROAD TO CLOSE TUESDAY FOR CULVERT REPLACEMENT - 09/23/2019
A portion of Crawford Road, near the New Mexico state line just north of Santa Teresa, will be closed to through traffic beginning Tuesday, Sept. 24 while Doña Ana County roads crews replace a damaged culvert.

Traffic will be detoured to Gardner Road and Borderland Road during the project, which is expected to be complete on Thursday, Sept. 26.

Warning signs will be prominently posted. Motorists are advised to slow down, exercise caution, and expect delays in the construction area

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GONZALEZ WILL HOST COMMUNITY MEETINGS IN DISTRICT 2 - 09/18/2019

Dist. 2 Doña Ana County Commissioner Ramon S. Gonzalez will host four community meetings for residents, throughout September and October, as follows:

Date	Time	Site	Address
sEPT. 25	6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.	Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church classroom	1320 Mercantil Ave. La Union
Oct. 9	6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.	Delores Wright Community Resource Center	400 E. Lisa Dr. Chaparral
Oct. 16	6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.	Chamberino Fire Station	301 S. Medina Rd. Chamberino
Oct. 30	6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.	Jetport Hazmat Building	8014 Airport Rd. Santa Teresa

PET OF THE WEEK FOR SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 - 09/16/2019

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SANCHEZ WILL HOST DISTRICT 5 MEETINGS IN PLACITAS AND RADIUM SPRINGS - 09/13/2019
Dist. 5 Doña Ana County Commissioner Manuel A. Sanchez will host two community outreach meetings for residents this month.

The first meeting will be on Tuesday, Sept. 17 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Placitas Community Resource Center, 241 Monticello Avenue in Hatch.
The second will be on Wednesday, Sept. 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Radium Springs Community Resource Center, 12060 Lindbeck Road in Radium Springs.
Sanchez encourages constituents with questions, ideas or suggestions about how to improve their community to attend.

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FIRST RESPONDERS TEST RADIO COMMUNICATION BEFORE POTENTIAL EMERGENCIES - 09/10/2019
Before a potential disaster strikes, several Doña Ana County first-response agencies participated in a test exercise Tuesday to check radio communication interoperability between one another.
The exercise was organized jointly by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and the Local Emergency Planning Committee. Area agencies that participated include New Mexico State Police, Las Cruces Police, the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office, Doña Ana County Fire and Emergency Services, the U.S. Border Patrol, American Medical Response, Civil Air Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, Sunland Park Police and Fire Departments, and the Mesilla Valley Regional Dispatch Authority (MVRDA).

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TARGET PRACTICE IN NORTH DEL REY AREA CONCERNS NEARBY RESIDENTS - 09/10/2019

Hunting season is open and about a dozen residents in the North Del Rey Boulevard neighborhood are concerned about target practice on and near their homes throughout the day or night, they said.
Almost a dozen residents from that area reached out to Doña Ana County representatives recently, concerned for their own safety and for Interstate 25 drivers and passengers. Doña Ana County Manager Fernando Macias, Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division Commander, Captain Manion Long and Office of the Flood Commission Director John Gwynne met with the constituents to discuss their concerns and viable solutions.

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PET OF THE WEEK FOR SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 - 09/09/2019

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K9 ‘DALLAS’ JOINS DASO - 09/06/2019

Dallas, the six-year-old giant schnauzer that was introduced to Doña Ana County in 2015 as an addition to the detention center’s Special Operations Response Team, has received a new assignment at the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office.
The transfer took place this week at the Doña Ana County Detention Center. Dallas, who was purchased as a riot-disturbance K9, is also a drug-sniffing dog and will be used at DASO to reestablish the department’s K9 division.
A series of retirements earlier this year forced Sheriff Kim Stewart to temporarily shelve the program.
According to Stewart, Dallas will be placed with a handler within her agency while she posts for a collateral duty assignment among current deputies. The selected deputy will attend specialized K9 training along with Dallas.

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