CORONA — The locals remember how the RVs emerged in great numbers so that, eventually, these temporary homes of laborers toiling on the sweeping wind farms surrounding the town would come to outpace the volume of houses in this modest railroad village.

John Lucero could feel the shift this fall, staring out from the dim interior of the local feed store at a wind turbine on a nearby hill, well over 100 feet high, and the constant fleet of heavy trucks traveling down the dusty Main Street in Corona.

Others may feel differently, but this owner of a ranch supply and cowboy apparel store is resolute in his dislike.

He shook his head and reflected on how the new deluge of residents in the town prompted him to pull his children from the local public school system over what he described as issu

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