Hatch Daily Digest Thursday, September 24, 2026
Ty's Take
Michelle Renee Sanders, who spent forty-three years teaching in the Las Cruces schools, passed this week at eighty-four. That's a career that spanned generations in a region where teaching jobs don't come easy and don't pay like they do elsewhere, which means anybody who stuck it out that long did it because they believed in something. The Mesilla Valley loses institutional memory when teachers like Sanders go, the kind of person who knew the families, watched the kids grow up, and understood what it took to run a classroom in a community where resources were always tight and need was always wide. She's the kind of loss that doesn't make headlines the way a budget cuts story does, but it hits different when you're sitting at a desk trying to figure out what you're teaching and who you're teaching it for.
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Las Cruces Bulletin
Michelle Renee Sanders, born June 14, 1970 in Clinton, OK, passed away on September 9, 2026 in Oklahoma City, OK at an advanced age. She grew up in Lawton, OK, graduated from Cameron University with a degree in Criminal Justice, and served as one of the first female firefighters for Exeter...
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