By Lynn Janes

The Silver City Consolidated Schools held a work session and regular meeting February 17, 2025. Members in attendance Ashley Montenegro, Michelle Diaz (came later in meeting), Patrick Cohn, Mike McMillan and Kimberly Klement. Superintendent William Hawkins also attended.

Work session

Hawkins had an update on the district and bonds. The district had just received approval to start the process, so he didn't have a lot to report. Instead, he talked about the process and what they had learned. He said the public school capital outlay council has been a hurry up and wait. He asked the board to keep in mind they would be contributing 37 percent of the projects but said Cliff Schools would be a higher percentage. He has been meeting weekly with their liaisons, Martin Vasquez with the public school capital outlay council (PSCOC).

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.CRITICAL FIRE DANGER THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON WEST OF THE DIVIDE... ...EXTREMELY CRITICAL FIRE DANGER ON MONDAY ACROSS THE REGION... A cut off low will bringing windy south to southwest winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts of 35 to 40 mph to the area this morning through this afternoon. Min RH values in the single digits are in the forecast coupled with gusty winds and very dry fuels which will lead to dangerous fire weather conditions across southwest New Mexico. Another, stronger storm system will cross the area on Monday and bring west to southwest winds of 25 to 40 mph with gusts of 50 to 60 mph possible. These winds will combine with RH's in the 5 to 15 percent range and very dry conditions to create very critical fire conditions.

CRITICAL FIRE DANGER LATE SATURDAY MORNING INTO SATURDAY AFTERNOON WEST OF THE DIVIDE... A cut off low will bringing windy south to southwest winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts of 35 to 40 mph to the area late Saturday morning through Saturday afternoon. Min RH values in the single digits are in the forecast coupled with gusty winds and very dry fuels which will lead to dangerous fire weather conditions across the Watch area.

...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH
MONDAY EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RH VALUES FOR FIRE WEATHER
ZONE 110
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR SATURDAY FOR FIRE WEATHER
WATCH ZONE 110..

Chase Dobrinski

SPARTA, Illinois—Chase Dobrinski of Silver City, NM, has been selected to the 2025 Sub-Junior (under the age of 15) All-American Trapshooting First Team, according to the Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA), which determines the teams. More than 100 years old, trapshooting is a competitive sport of shooting at clay targets with a shotgun.

The ATA hosts both the Grand American (the 11-day world tournament which in August drew more than 4,000 contestants to the World Shooting & Recreational Complex, in Sparta, Ill.) and a series of "satellite" Grands (smaller, regional tournaments providing Grand American-style trophies and competition). The association also sponsors five zone shoots.

Photos by Mary Alice Murphy

Stephen Lindsey, co-founder of the Future Forge Makerspace, along with co-founder Mary Stone, planned and produced a dinner, with an awards ceremony. They room filled with members of Future Forge and community members that support the effort.

The mission of the program is: 

[Editor's Note: This is part 3 of a multi- part series of articles on almost six hours of Grant County Commission meetings on Feb. 11 and 13, 2025.)
By Mary Alice Murphy

This article on the Grant County Commission Feb, 11, 2025 work session begins the county department head reports.

Grant County Fire Chief Roger Groves spoke first.

"Currently I've been working on a project for assisting our state fire marshal with financial work," he said. "That's taken a considerable amount of time. We're coming to the end of that pretty quickly on a meeting with our support service representative."