By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media While the rain was a welcome sight to the Raton city commission Tuesday evening they weren’t as happy about the interim budget they are sending to the state. According to City Manager Berry this budget is very conservative especially in light of the Pioneer…
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By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media RPS suffered a power outage that lasted several hours Monday afternoon as a result of a lightning strike near the Burro Canyon substation that damaged a lightning arrestor. Tri-state was not able to make repairs on the arrestor until Tuesday afternoon so Raton was switched over…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Springer Electric Coop officially dedicated their new one megawatt solar array Tuesday morning May 26 at their substation just north of the Springer. Funding for the $3.4 million project came from the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development along with an additional $10.6 million…
UPDATE at 4:00 PM Tuesday: RPS has alerted KRTN that at 5PM today there will be a planned power outage to switch power back to Tri-State. The switch could be instantaneous or last up to 30 minutes according to officials at RPS. Update from RPS (Raton Utilities) as of Tuesday,…