Doña Ana County celebrates jetport runway expansion

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Doña Ana County is celebrating the widening and strengthening of Runway 10-28 at the Doña Ana County International Jetport with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The ceremony will be held at noon on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 8014 Airport Rd. in Santa Teresa.

What the county is calling a “major infrastructure project” was made possible through $20 million in funding from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham as part of the state’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) allocation, positioning the Jetport to handle larger aircraft like the Boeing 757…

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