New Mexico State Film Office Announces Film Industry Town Hall in Las Cruces
Santa Fe, NM - New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis today announced a Town Hall meeting to take place in Las Cruces on Friday, January 8, 2016. Maniatis will discuss the state of the film...
View ArticleBike Master Plan Meeting Cancelled
The Town of Silver City Bicycle Master Plan public meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 5, 2016 has been cancelled due to the weather. It will be rescheduled in the near future. For additional...
View ArticleRotary Club Seeks Candidates for 2016 Youth Leadership Awards
The Rotary Club of Silver City has announced that it is accepting applications for the 2016 Rotary District 5520 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program. Successful candidates will attend the...
View ArticleHit and ‘run’ driver causes serious injuries
By Roger Lanse On Wednesday, Dec. 23, Rhyker Grijalva, 23, of Mimbres, driving a red 1997 Ford pickup collided with a white 1996 Chevrolet pickup driven by a Silver City teenager at the intersection of...
View ArticleShooting sends man to hospital
By Roger Lanse Silver City police department officers were dispatched to 3613 Los Encinos on Saturday, Jan. 1, at about midnight, in relation to a reported fight. While en route to the address,...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Call on Sen. Michael Sanchez to Agree on Driver’s License...
Santa Fe, NM – Speaker of the House Don Tripp sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez today calling on the Senate to compromise with the House on a proposal that will stop the dangerous...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Dale Zimmerman publishes memoir
Dale Zimmerman, Acclaimed Naturalist Details Life of Research In East Africa Silver City, NM – Dr. Dale Zimmerman’s life experiences are as colorful as the birds documented in a new memoir, Turaco...
View ArticleSilver City Police Department Blotter – Dec. 28 - Dec. 31, 2015
Monday, Dec. 28 Welfare check Pope and 20th streets Officer advised that the front gate of a residence appears to have been pried open. Burglary 1956 E. Highway 180 Caller advised that the propane...
View ArticleSilver City Police Department Blotter – Jan. 1 - Jan. 3, 2016
Friday, Jan. 1 Shooting Los Encinos Caller advised five people can be seen fighting in the street. Advised that it looks like all vehicles are leaving including an older dark Toyota 4Runner blowing...
View ArticleNMDOT Difficult Driving Conditions: Lordsburg area 010416
ROAD ADVISORY:DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS: LORDSBURG AREANM 90 from mile marker 10 to mile marker 25 Roadway is snow packed and icy. Crews are plowing, salting, and cindering.
View ArticleNMDOT: Difficult Driving conditions throughout Grant County
DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS: Throughout the Silver City Area (Grant County)Roads are snow packed and icy. Snow and blowing snow are reducing visibility. Motorists are advised to slow down and use...
View ArticleHeinrich Announces Resources To Help N.M. Ranchers Impacted By Winter Storms
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 4, 2016) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) encouraged livestock producers in New Mexico who have suffered eligible disaster-related losses from recent winter storms to...
View ArticleDoris E. Russell, 88, of Santa Clara, NM
Doris E. Russell, 88, a resident of Santa Clara, NM entered eternal rest Sunday, December 27, 2015 at Gila Regional Medical Center. She was born May 13, 1927 in Monrovia, CA to Edmond and Margery...
View Article12th Night Dance for 2016
Annual "Breaking Up Christmas" 12th Night Dance with the Big Ditch Crickets and the Fiddling Friends. January 9, 7 – 10 p.m. Old Elks Club, 315 Texas Street. Suggested donation $5 - $10 at the door....
View ArticleEstell Palmer 84, of Silver City, NM
Estell Palmer 84, passed away Friday January 1, 2016. She is survived by one son, Andy Palmer and his wife Elizabeth, daughter Rita Kay Baker and husband John, one sister Jonell Brown, many nieces,...
View ArticleDolores Gamboa Trujillo, 82, of Santa Clara, NM
Dolores Gamboa Trujillo 82 a Santa Clara resident entered eternal rest Sunday, January 3, 2016 at Gila Regional Medical Center surrounded by her loving family. Dolores was born in Deming to Hildonfonso...
View ArticleSilver City business in shambles due to drunken destruction
Silver City business in shambles due to drunken destruction By Roger Lanse The Allstate Insurance building near the intersection of Hudson Street and College Avenue suffered considerable damage during...
View ArticleScottish Music to be performed for Burns Night
Scottish music with Mountain Aire Folk Music -Sunday, January 24, Yankie Creek Coffee House, 112 W. Yankie St., Silver City, 1-3 PM. "Burns Night” is a Scotland tradition held around the world,...
View ArticleScheherazade Story Teller
By Barbara Jorgen Nance Once upon a time, before time was counted, stories began. As a visual artist, I felt my paintings and sculptures told their own stories. On the other hand, the written word...
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