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🌱 Meet the Grants High grad now leading national NASCAR coverage

Grants, New Mexico Patch AM: a 3 min read

Greetings Grants! We’re your go-to source for what’s happening in town. Read on to get plugged in! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Meet the Grants High grad now leading national NASCAR coverage

Also on today's calendar: A Fundraiser Event for Albuquerque's Unhoused.

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Increasingly windy, with a high of 76 and low of 37 degrees.
  • Thursday: Breezy and not as warm, temps: high: 66, low: 28.
  • Friday: Breezy in the afternoon, with a high of 69 and low of 35 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• NASCAR at Talladega April 2026: Odds and more info (theracingexperts.com) — A Grants native, Dominic Aragon, now editor-in-chief of The Racing Experts, is covering this weekend’s NASCAR action at Talladega while still living in Grants with his family. The piece previews race times, TV and radio coverage, and betting odds, but also spotlights Aragon’s roots at Grants High School and his journalism career that began here.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Kroger Family of Companies posted a job opening for Grocery Clerk in Grants. Apply here.
  • Tractor Supply posted a job opening for Team Member in Grants. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Grants here.

🗞 Nearby News

Gallup

  • Gallup-McKinley Tradeport Leaders Convene To Accelerate Transformational Economic Initiative (ladailypost.com)
  • Everyday Heroes: The Little Sister Who Faced Down an Armed Militia (voiceofthesouthwest.org)
  • Go See Diné Artist Eric-Paul Riege's Largest Show to Date at the Henry Art Gallery (seattlemag.com)

Los Lunas

  • Rio Grande already showing dry spots in Valencia County amid record-low snowpack (krqe.com)

Rio Rancho

Ok Grants! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Grants

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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Grants

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.