Carrying on always begins here

Happy Thursday, dear friends,

The new Bulletin lands today with a front page story about how leadership in Las Cruces contemplates a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld a local ordinance in Oregon that criminalized sleeping outdoors, or in a car, in public.

With this issue, Desert Exposure’s new editor, David Salcido, has taken the helm of the Bulletin’s arts roundup following the departure of Elva Österreich after 10 years. He is also hard at work on the August edition of “Dex.”

To hear from Elva on her transition, Justin Garcia sat down with her for a Q&A you can read here.

Elva’s contributions as a staff reporter, editor and photographer, as well as her institutional memory, are already greatly missed. We wish her the best in her next chapter and are also happy to welcome Salcido back to the Bulletin full-time.

I write to you on the last day of my visit to my hometown of East Providence, Rhode Island. I am learning that if it’s been a long time since you’ve gone home, you need at least a week for the place to begin to look familiar again. Much has changed, naturally, yet it gets dull for my sons if all of my conversation is about what used to be here, what used to happen there, all the things that are gone with newer things in their place.

It has been a valuable demonstration of impermanence. My sons see what is there now, and my childhood is a memory. Some of the eyesores and dangerous spots have been smoothed out, made into grassy spaces or gardens or new buildings. Some valuable things are gone, too.

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The Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra is gearing up for its 66th season, which begins in September and continues through spring 2025 with live performances in Las Cruces of beloved popular and classical … MORE

Las Cruces’ parks and recreation department announced that open registration for the fall youth cheer program opens July 18.

The program is open to all genders between the ages of 5 and … MORE

The small brick library nestled under the water tower where I once spent my summer vacation days is now a child development center, where a young boy was playing hide-and-seek outside with his young mom. The memory of the library is mine to treasure; what’s here now is treasured by that young family.

Tomorrow we return, where there is much to do, working with the palette of what’s here to carry our aspirations and hopes forward. Why not? What else should we do?

Stay with us.

Algernon D’Ammassa
Managing Editor

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