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[This is the first of a series of articles on the Grant County Commission meeting on March 12, 2024.]
By Mary Alice Murphy
Grant County Commissioners heard three presentations at the March 12, 2024 work session.
The first presentation came from the High Desert Humane Society president Heidi Ogas. She gave the annual report for the Grant County Animal Shelter, which is run by the HDHS..
By Roger Lanse
Sunday, Mar. 10, 2024, Grant County sheriff's Office deputies were dispatched to 23 H.L. Watkins Road, Silver City, at about 5:45 p.m. in reference to an unwanted subject call. A male had been reported squatting on their property for an hour and refusing to leave, although now he was reported leaving.
By Roger Lanse
On Monday, Mar. 11, 2024, at about 9:01 p.m. a Silver City Police Department officer was dispatched, while patrolling, to the Food Basket at 1220 N. Hudson Street in response to an unwanted subject call. The officer was told by the Grant County Regional Dispatch Authority, the male, reportedly, had consumed beer without paying for it and was refusing to leave. Arriving at the location, the assistant manager of the business directed the officers to the store's restroom where they observed a male inside without a shirt and wearing jeans.
By Frost McGahey, Investigative Journalist
On June 13, 2023, Chief Hector Carrillo of the Bayard Police filed a formal complaint with the State of New Mexico Ethics Committee against City Councilwoman Frances Gonzales. The impetus for this was the pending charge of False Reporting, but there had been other incidences.*
The first incidence was on July 30, 2022 at the Cobre Consolidated School District's Summerfest. Annette Acosta, the school official and the event coordinator, had received a complaint from Sami Morales. Morales explained she had been walking by the city council tent when she overheard Councilwomen Gonzales state she was very unhappy that the Republican Party tent was so close to her party's tent.
By Roger Lanse
A Santa Clara Police Department officer was dispatched to 610 N. East Street on Saturday, Mar. 16, 2024, at approximately 5:19 p.m. to a disturbance call. When the officer arrived at the address, he was met by the 48-year-old male victim, who stated his nephew, Matias Marquez, 23, of Santa Clara, was "destroying his house," declaring his nephew "threw a crazy and started breaking things in his house." The victim told the officer, Marquez had lived at this address prior but had been kicked out a 'few months ago' and had been living at the homeless shelter. He returned yesterday.
Photos by Lynn Janes
Article by Mary Alice Murphy
NM MFA representative Julie Halbig was featured speaker.
Chamber Biard Member Sabrina Pack served as emcee.The Silver City-Grant County Chamber of Commerce held its monthly luncheon on March 7, 2024. Julie Halbig of the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority served as featured speaker.
Halbig, NMMFA director of compliance and initiatives, said the agency is reaching out all over the state "because we know that housing, and affordable housing in particular, is impacting all our communities. It will take all of us together to be the solution."
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