By Lynn Janes
The Silver City Town Council held a special meeting July 23, 2026. Attendance to the meeting included Mayor Simon Wheaton-Smith, and Councilors Nicholas Prince, Stan Snider, Victor Nanez and Angela Salaiz.
The council approved the agenda.
New business
This meeting had been called only to discuss and ask questions about the July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2027, budget.
Jacqui Olea, interim town manager, introduced Randy Hernandez, business operations manager, and Lori Ortiz, finance director.
Hernandez had provided a packet for the council to review on the final budget to be presented to the council at the next meeting for approval.
By Lynn Janes
The Silver City Consolidated Schools held a work session and regular meeting July 22, 2026. Ashley Montenegro, Michelle Diaz, Mike McMillan and Kimberly Klement attended. Superintendent William Hawkins also attended. Patrick Cohn did not attend.
Work session
The board had their work session out of the board room and had done a walkthrough of all the work that had been done at Harrison Schmitt Elementary School over the summer.
Regular meeting started.
The board approved the minutes from the finance meeting June 11, 2026, work session and regular meeting June 15, 2026. They also approved the agenda.
Information and presentations.
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
[Editor's Note: This is part 3 of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. It features th Silver City Museum Ice Cream Social.]
Every year, the Silver City Museum hosts an Ice Cream Social following the Fourth of July Parade. Always part of the festivities are activities for the kids, vendors selling their food and art work, as well as entertaining music and dance.
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
[Editor's Note: This is part two of a series of photo essays for the USA 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declamation of Independence.]
These photos were taken of the flag raising by the Gaffney-Oglesby Martine Corps League,, the singing of the National Anthem by Jaelyn Cruz, and the many vendors, food vendors and informational organization booths.
A belated Happy 250th to the United State of America!
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
[Editor's Note: Great Apologies for just now getting Fourth of July photo essays up. This is the first one. More to come late today, I hope! Better late than never, right? And July zipped by, It surely was not really 21 days!]
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Memorial reception for Private Jose G. Jaurequi 062926 part 3
[Editor's Note: This is part 3 of the June 28, 2026, Memorial reception for Private Jose G. Jaurequi who died as a prisoner of war in the Philippines, following the battles of Bataan and Corregidor. Please visit parts 1at https://grantcountybeat.com/home/news-articles/memorial-reception-for-private-jose-g-jaurequi-062826-part-1-and-photos-of-the-event and 2 at https://grantcountybeat.com/home/news-articles/memorial-reception-for-jose-g-jaurequi-062826-part-2 .
Emcee Fred Baca said: "He was here for the whole program, but he wasn't giving a presentation to the Juarequi family. I'm going to let Mr. Arnold Lopez speak as the mayor of Santa Clara."
Lopez said:"There's a lot of history between Fort Bayard and Santa Clara. It was Central at the time that Fort Bayard began. It wasCentral, and then they changed to Santa Clara. But this is my third year there, and I grew up in when it was Central. So I take a lot of pride from there, and I wanted to say thank you to the Jaurequie family. So from the village, I would just like to present this to you, sir. Thank you so much.
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