Work may soon begin on a library upgrade project in a small village in southern New Mexico.
Exactly $150,000 in state funds have now been secured for work on the only public library in the village of Corona.
Located at 481 Main Street, the Village of Corona Public Library has a volunteer staff and more than 14,000 books.
The library, which was officially opened in 2004, serves a village population of around 130 residents, and is housed in a nearly 7,000-square-foot, one-story structure that is also the home to the Corona Village Hall, a health clinic, and a local New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division office.
State lawmakers gave the green light to the $150,000 in state capital outlay spending for general improvements to the Corona library earlier this spring, a figure subsequently approved by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.
That $150,000 is a piece of a larger $4.8 million in projects approved for Lincoln County which also includes $75,000 for upgrade work to the town of Carrizozo’s water system; and $135,000 for the building of a veterans’ memorial in Ruidoso Downs.
Additional funded Lincoln County work: $55,000 for improvements to Corona’s natural gas system; and $40,000 for upgrade work to the offices of the Upper Hondo Soil & Water Conservation District in the village of Capitan.
May 2, 2025
By Garry Boulard
Photo courtesy of Unsplash
