Local News Releases

Open Technology Lab August 7
The next Silver City Public Library open technology lab will be Wednesday, August 7, 3:00pm-5:00pm. Anyone can drop in and ask any tech question, no registration required. Participants are invited to bring their own devices. Look for this tech help opportunity on the first Wednesday of each month! To learn more, visit silvercitypubliclibrary.org or call 575-538-3672. The library is located at 515 W. College Avenue in Silver City.

Felix KM Galanti Performance
Friday, August 16, 3:00pm
On Friday, August 16, at 3:00pm Jazz musician Felix KM Galanti will be performing live at the Silver City Public Library. Come and enjoy as Felix treats listeners to various styles of jazz played on his vibraphone.

Celebrate National Farmers Market Week this Saturday, August 10 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Mimbres Valley Farmers Market's new Mimbres Marketplace location.
Live music by Mimbres' own Singing GranPa, Terry Ploekelman. Shop for fresh produce, feta cheeses, preserved foods and plants with locally handcrafted things for home and garden. Menu: Smoked Brisket & Sides, Homemade Root Beer, Baked Goods. Solar cooking demo.

Extra produce from your garden? Drop it off at the new community produce table to sell or swap or donate.

Silver City Mayor Ken Ladner would like to invite your input, ideas and inspirations toward making our town even better than it already is and in the process make ourselves even better than we already are

The next "Monday Meeting With The Mayor" will be at The Javalena Coffee House located at 117 West Market Street, on the corner of Market and Texas Streets, on Monday, August 12, 2024, from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

All are invited to stop by anytime between 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM. and share your insights and ideas with Mayor Ladner.

And, enjoy a soda or cup of coffee, compliments of the mayor.

Bayard Police Department

Friday, Aug. 2

Unwanted subject
Tom Foy Blvd.
Female going through the dumpster/want her issued a CTW. Officer – out at a Grant Street address/attempting to make contact with female/at back of Food Basket with male screaming for help/everything is okay/dogs chasing a male/unable to make contact at the street address/all gates are padlocked.

Welfare check
Winifred Street and Hurley Avenue
Female lying on a bench. NMSP officer – female was okay.

Friday, Aug. 2

Welfare check
Country Club Drive – Silver Acres
Caller has not heard from two named subjects, ages 45 and 51-years-old, in over 24 hours. Deputy – subjects are okay/spoke to caller.

Domestic disturbance
Fawn Circle
Caller advised her husband just pointed a gun at her/a black handgun/male told the female he put the gun in the safe but unknown if he actually did/he is under the influence of alcohol. Female started screaming and the line was disconnected. Dispatch made contact with female again/advised the male had hung up the . . .

Friday, Aug. 2

Aggravated assault
1040 E. Highway 180
Caller advising front desk clerk pulled a gun on him/advised he was upset because he couldn’t get into his room/was talking to the clerk about it then the clerk pulled out a gun from the back. **advised the clerk is running away. **advised clerk locked himself in Room 104/believes he hid the gun/unknown where/caller is in the lobby. Officer ran one DL.

Welfare check
Virginia Street
Caller advising he is having pain in his pinky and doesn’t know what to do/said his mom was asleep then said he lived alone. Non-emergency/14-year-old with left hand pain/negative on lights and sirens. EMS3 – clear with signed refusal.

Golden Columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha) Photo by Elroy LimmerCalling all gardeners to the Gila Native Plant Society (GNPS) annual native plant sale on Saturday, August 17, 2024. It will be held from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the parking lot on the corner of 12th and Pope Streets, across from Gough Park. Five native plant vendors will be selling a wide variety of native trees, shrubs, perennial flowers, grasses, cacti, succulents and vines. Purchasers can select the plants they want and discuss their placement and care with native plant growers. Cash and checks only, please. The public is welcome.

The vendors will be Lone Mountain Natives from here in Silver City, Honey Hawk Homestead from the Mimbres, Whisky Creek Zócalo from Arenas Valley, Spadefoot Nursery from Cochise County and Gila Watershed Partnership from Safford, AZ.

ROAD ADVISORY
LANE CLOSURE – Silver City Area
NM 90 north and southbound from milepost 25 to milepost 26 all lanes will be closed intermittently for road maintenance. A flagging operation will be in place. Motorists are asked to reduce speed, obey posted signs, and be cautious of personnel and equipment in the area. The closure will be lifted at approximately 4:00 p.m.