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Alamogordo, NM – Mayor Sharon McDonald’s annual city-wide clean-up initiative is back on July 18th, giving residents an excellent opportunity to clear out unwanted items and beautify the community. This year’s event, themed “Dump Your Junk,” is hosted and coordinated from the historic Dudley School Community Center and Park.

“Dump Your Junk”
Saturday, July 18, 2026
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon
Headquarters & Volunteer Assignment Location:
Historic Dudley School Community Center and Park
523 Maryland Avenue, Alamogordo, NM
Services Offered:
• Free dumpsters at multiple convenient locations throughout the city.
• Yard clean-up assistance available for Seniors, Disabled residents, and Military families.
• Free document shredding at headquarters from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon.
Dumpster Locations:
• Indian Wells & Scenic
• 2201 Puerto Rico Avenue (Senior Center)
• 817 North Scenic (New Beginnings Church Parking Lot)
• Panorama Blvd (next to Fairfield Inn)
• Walker Road (Baseball Park)
• Oregon School – 1500 Oregon Avenue
Get Involved
Volunteers will receive their assignments at the Dudley Community Center starting at 7:00 a.m. Residents needing yard cleanup assistance or wishing to volunteer are encouraged to contact organizers promptly and complete any required sign-up and waiver forms.
Contacts:
Sharon McDonald – 575-295-2155
Vesta Sherrie – 510-410-6487 or vestasherrie@gmail.com
For the full flyer, registration details, and more information, visit: https://coa-utilities.com/342/Sharon-McDonald
Mayor McDonald’s annual clean-up has become a beloved community tradition, fostering civic pride and helping keep Alamogordo clean and welcoming. Whether you’re dropping off junk, volunteering your time, or requesting help with your property, this is your chance to contribute!
about as useful outcome as could be hoped for...but i still wonder about the commission meeting on the 22nd - trust but verify.
Sunny, with a high of 91 and low of 69 degrees. Sunny during the morning, patchy rain nearby for the afternoon and evening, clear overnight.
any city/town/village not looking after their water supplies, treatment facilities and delivery systems is being administered by idiots, i.e. timberon. and another opportunity to repeat that no data centers should be considered viable in the southwest unless they give prior commitments to supply <
First of all this “environmental activism” is mostly a group of failed bureaucrats doing interpretive dance in the town square, hoping someone will clap, because Bonito never drew crowds so much as it collected stray shopping carts and the occasional confused goose—so pouring money into keeping it open for a few tho
More comments from people afraid to use their real names. Makes their comments worth zero. Sorry, bumble bee tuna. Show yourself out.
and their comments need to be preserved to illuminate the fact that many people are simply fools. years ago, i read that the Mescalero Apache's were the highest per capita income native-american nation in our country. they had the good fortune to be banished to a place that had no oil/gold/diamonds/copper/or any o
When they say avoid spreading unconfirmed info they mean only spread the police's confirmed biased version of events! One example is there has been no transparency, has to how a man with his arms raised up above his head justifies means for deadly force.
Would you be so kind as to publish with a real name? It is an interesting talk to text comment, unfortunately I place very little value in a statement made by someone who is not brave enough to stand by their own words.
this is why body-cams and dash-cams are best practice public policy.
this will be a highly significant vote by the commissioners - it will be the first test of the new four vote majority that rehired the old/new city manager - and i'd make a sporting wager that they stick together.