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BY: Mason Mastroianni, Mick Mastroianni and Johnny Hart
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- Category: Front Page News
Photos, video and article by Martha Hamblen
About a hundred people toured the workshop spaces at the Future Forge Makerspace Open House and Fundraiser on Saturday, June 29th.
Children, adults and teens were painting, planting and crowding around the numerous pieces of equipment in the 4,000 Sq. ft. building at 307 East College Avenue. It was the perfect way to showcase what Future Forge is all about.
- Category: Front Page News
Photos by article by Mary Alice Murphy
Silver City has the honor of having a world-renowned surgeon treating patients at his clinic and at Gila Regional Medical Center.
Dr. James "Butch" Rosser, former football player and member of SAGES, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, has worked to develop a program called Stealth Learning. With the help of Stacey Cox, "we have submitted a grant application for funding.And today is the coup de grace, with us introducing the program to stakeholders."
The event on Thursday, June 27, 2024, at the Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center and hosted by Fight Like a Girl, whom Rosser gave kudos to, introduced about a dozen students and interested adults to the computerized video games teaching one how to fly a drone and land it and learn to do some of the things that surgeons do in surgery. They will learn about the STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering, math—to develop career opportunities. He said the program that day would also expose them to validated video games for good.
- Category: Weather
[Editor's Note: The county and region are seeing thunderstorms often these days. It is impossible to post every one of them. Please take responsibility for your own safety. Do not rely on these reports. Look out the windows and pay attention.]
Southern Gila Foothills/Mimbres Valley NM-
Southern Gila Region Highlands/Black Range NM-
Central Grant County/Silver City Area NM-
513 PM MDT Tue Jul 2 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTH CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY
THROUGH 545 PM MDT...
At 513 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Pinos Altos, moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Pinos Altos, Hanover, Fierro, Mimbres, Fort Bayard, Camp Thunderbird,
Georgetown, Upper Mimbres Valley, Bear Canyon Lake, Cherry Creek
Campground, and McMillan Campground.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
- Category: Weather
ROAD ADVISORY
FLOODING – Virden Area
NM 91 from milepost 0 to 5 has water running over the roadway at low water crossings, roadway is still passable. NMDOT is currently monitoring and will notify as conditions change.
When the roadway is flooded do not cross and seek an alternate route. Turn around, don't drown.
- Category: Front Page News
By Roger Lanse
The owner of Artisan Painting, at 3130-A E. Highway 180, informed the Grant County Regional Dispatch Authority, Saturday, June 29, 2024, at about 10:50 a.m., of a burglary at his business. When a Silver City Police Department officer arrived at the address around 11 a.m., the victim told the officer he arrived at his business about 10 minutes earlier to find the combination lock to his utility trailer missing.
According to an SCPD incident report, the victim stated when he opened the rear door to a utility trailer, he saw that a Graco Magnum X7 paint sprayer valued at $700, along with a 50-foot air compressor hose valued at $200, were not there. The last time the equipment was seen, the victim said, was two days earlier.
- Category: Front Page News
To download a PDF of the release, please visit the following link: Freeport Commences Commissioning of New Indonesian Smelter and Provides Update on Second-Quarter 2024 Copper and Gold Sales
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Â Freeport (NYSE: FCX) announced today that its Indonesian subsidiary, PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI), substantially completed construction of its new Manyar smelter in Gresik, Indonesia in June 2024 and has commenced commissioning operations. FCX expects the smelter will begin producing copper cathodes in the coming months and continues to target full ramp up by the end of 2024 in line with previous expectations.
Richard C. Adkerson, Chairman of the Board, and Kathleen L. Quirk, President and Chief Executive Officer, said: "We are pleased to announce this important milestone for our new smelter in Indonesia. Our team executed this large and complex project extremely well and is prepared to deliver the ramp-up to full production safely and efficiently. The completion of the project positions PT-FI as a fully integrated producer in Indonesia, providing a foundation to extend its long-term operating rights."
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