Need to Know: Mountain Business Roundup, Fire Restrictions, and More
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Mountain Business Roundup: Who's Coming, Going, and Growing
Local favorites for sale, new coffee shop opening, bear sightings, and U-Pick season begins June 11. The Reader has the skinny
Cloudcroft, Mayhill, and High Rolls Mountain Park see changes, sales, closures, and new business as we enter the busy summer visitor season.
For Sales and Farewells
The Mayhill Cafe & Hotel is currently closed and on the market. The property, just off Highway 82 in Mayhill, includes a restaurant, hotel, and two short-term rental buildings.
Maggie’s Shaved Ice on Burro Avenue in Cloudcroft is for sale by owner. The property includes the petite building, attached covered patio, and a large concrete pad out back.
The Backcountry and High End Cannabis shops in Cloudcroft are currently closed. Backcountry’s retail space is part of the Village Plaza on James Canyon Highway, and according to one source, it was recently rented out. We’ll keep you posted.
The former High End space is part of the recently remodeled Osha Trail Lodging rental units, which are currently on the market.
Open Season
After a brief closure, Off the Wall, just off the highway in High Rolls Mountain Park, reopened under the same owner. The ceramics, metal, and yard-art venue is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday through Monday.
Just up the hill from Off the Wall, Cadwallader Mountain Farms opens for “U-Pick” cherry picking season on June 11th. The typical picking season lasts 1-2 weeks. Folks can pay by the pound—don’t forget your cash.
A new coffee shop is coming to Cloudcroft village, pending council approval. Located at the former location of Cloud Dogs next to Fernando’s Burritos, the new business was discussed during the May 6th Planning and Zoning meeting. Texas transplant and part-owner of Good Steward Ventures LLC Raul Flores said he hopes to have the business “open by Memorial Day weekend.”
Pool (Filling) Party
The Reader was recently invited to The Grand Cloudcroft Hotel pool-filling by co-owner Dan Hughes and manager Julie Bragg…
FireWise Village, Volunteer Efforts, and New Forest Fire Restrictions
Find out about the Village’s efforts to clean up Cloudcroft, dumpster updates, and an increase in the Lincoln National Forest Fire Danger Rating.
Reader Reels: Be ‘Bear Aware.’ And, Please, Don’t Feed the Bears.
The Reader recently polled our Facebook followers. Here are the results:
With 112 votes this morning (participants could select multiple options), 40% of voters said “Bears in the village are not a public safety issue,” compared to 16% who disagree.
41% of voters said they “know how to prevent a nuisance bear,” while only 3% do not.
The Reader is proud to be sponsored in part by great businesses like Tularosa Communications:
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Fibee, our friendly alien mascot, has been on a mission to share cybersecurity tips with students across our service areas. Most recently, we visited Cloudcroft Municipal Schools to teach kids how to be smart and safe online.
Through fun, hands-on activities, Fibee showed kids how to create strong passwords, avoid online scams, and protect their personal information. We believe that when kids understand how the internet works, they become confident, capable digital citizens.
Stay tuned for upcoming events where Fibee will continue spreading cybersecurity awareness with a healthy dose of fun!
Parents Voice Concern Over Schedule Change; Students Take State; Budget Approved: School Board Meeting and Beyond
Administrators cite safety and staffing concerns for 8th-hour athletics elective while celebrating academic success. Catch up with our school news breakdown:
The Artist’s Corner: Catch Up with Drew Gaines
The Reader’s Contributing Editor Drew Gaines has been busy in the art world this month. He recently delivered work to Marfa, Texas, for the national juried exhibition, Marfa Invitational. If that’s too far a trek, you can catch his newest mural as part of the Alamogordo Mainstreet project, where he documents Holloman Air Force Base “before it was Holloman.”
You can also catch his work in Cloudcroft at The Little Gallery on Burro and Be in the Mountains Yoga.
The Reader is proud to be sponsored in part by great companies like Off the Beaten Path:
Off the Beaten Path is hosting their annual 1Cat fundraiser to fund their trap, spay, neuter, and release program. Check out their artful auction items here.
Cloudcroft Reader recently reached a new milestone. We now have more than 10,400 followers on Facebook.
While celebrating our followers, we want to encourage and advance our future leaders. If you have any interest in learning more about how Cloudcroft works and may want to help, join us. Open to locals and seasonals. Get plugged in.
Leadership Cloudcroft is a new initiative designed to address an old problem in Cloudcroft: developing volunteer leaders who are prepared to take charge.
Leadership Cloudcroft aims to help cultivate the next generation of community champions to address our mountain village's unique challenges by identifying and preparing community leaders who are prepared to take charge in volunteer, civic, business, and community roles.
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‘Why We Sponsor the Cloudcroft Reader’
Meet Robin Faux, Co-Owner of Cloudcroft Therapeutic Massage and a business sponsor of the Cloudcroft Reader.
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“The Cloudcroft Reader fills a need that we've long had in our community: staying up to date on what’s happening in the village.”
"Jim and I appreciate the style in which the stories are told. We like the use of long quotes, allowing your subject and source to speak for themselves.”
“I’m thinking of the article about the village resignations—-quotes from the village employees and trustees gave me a stronger sense of each party’s intentions. I better understood where each person was coming from.”
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