Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
I remember the early morning mental image as clear as the ringing in my head that followed. Walking over to pick up the auger from the last in my line of ice holes, I was suddenly staring at my boots pointing skyward and felt the impact along my shoulders and the back of my head against the hard surface of the frozen lake. The flash in my field of vision that followed with the pain and dizziness s...