BC Comic for January 26, 2025
BY: Mason Mastroianni, Mick Mastroianni and Johnny Hart
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The Bayard Police Department issued a statement on the threat of a shooting at Snell Middle School. For the full statement, please see the PDF below:
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Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
The Youth Mural program, led by Diana Ingalls Leyba, created a mural on the Rhoda House, the new home for the Western Institute of Lifelong Learning (WILL) program on the Western New Mexico University campus. YCC students and WILL volunteers created the mural design and painted it. The dedication took place on Jan. 24, 2025.
Ingalls Leyba said the funding for this mural came from YCC funding and WNMU funding.
- Category: Weather
Upper Gila River Valley-Southern Gila Foothills/Mimbres Valley-
Southwest Desert/Lower Gila River Valley-Lowlands of the Bootheel-
Uplands of the Bootheel-Southwest Desert/Mimbres Basin-Eastern
Black Range Foothills-Sierra County Lakes-Northern Dona Ana
County-West Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet-
Sacramento Mountains Above 7500 Feet-East Slopes Sacramento
Mountains Below 7500 Feet-Otero Mesa-Central Grant County/Silver
City Area-West Central Tularosa Basin/
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Upper Gila River Valley-Southern Gila Foothills/Mimbres Valley-
Southwest Desert/Lower Gila River Valley-Lowlands of the Bootheel-
Uplands of the Bootheel-Southwest Desert/Mimbres Basin-Eastern
Black Range Foothills-Sierra County Lakes-Northern Dona Ana
County-West Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet-East
Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet-Otero Mesa-Central
Grant County/Silver City Area-Southern Gila Region
Highlands/Black Range-West Central Tularosa Basin/White Sands-
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By Roger Lanse
Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, at about 2:01 a.m., a Bayard Police Department officer responded to the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, NM, in reference to a male with a gunshot wound to his left leg. According to a BPD incident report, the officer spoke to the victim, Leandro Dominguez, 64, of Bayard, at GRMC.
Dominguez stated, the report said, that as he was getting ready to go to bed, the gun, a .38 Special Smith & Wesson revolver, fell from a top shelf and went off. Dominguez stated the revolver had just one cartridge in it, and he wasn't sure how it fell. According to the report, Dominguez thought possibly the belt of the robe he was wearing might have caught the weapon as he bent over to lower the heater.
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[Editor's Note: This is part 4 of the Grant County Commission January 7, 2025 work session and Jan. 9, 2025 regular meetings. This begins the work session review of the regular meeting agenda and presentations made at the regular meeting.]
By Mary Alice Murphy
At the Grant County Commissioner Jan. 7, 2025 work session, County Manager Charlene Webb began the review of the regular meeting, which would take place on Jan. 9, 2025.]
The first presentation, at the regular meeting, was a recognition of Toby Rascon for his 30 years of service in the Road Department. Public Works Director Jason Lockett said he has been doing a great job since 1994, and presented Rascon with a jacket with his name and 30 years of service on it.
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