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Little Walnut Road Improvements to Continue this Summer; 32nd Street Nears Completion
Silver City -- With just one month to go before the official arrival of spring, Public Works Director Peter Peña and staff are gearing up for a new season of road improvements, while 32nd Street improvements slowly move toward completion, after construction delays, due to shallowly buried fiber optic cables.
"We're now looking at completing the improvements to 32nd Street by the end of March," said Peña. "It's taken the utility companies a bit longer than we anticipated to get those cables buried at the proper depth, so that we can move ahead with that project, Peña added, but we're close. We appreciate the community's patience through this process."
[Editor's Note: This is the second of a series of articles on the Feb. 6, 2024, Grant County Commission work session. This continues the director reports.]
By Mary Alice Murphy
The next report at the Grant County Commission Feb. 6, 2024 work session came from Emergency Manager Scot Fuller.
With a smile on his face, Fuller said: "We finally have access to IPAWS (Integrated Public Alert and Warning System) since last week. Grant County is officially designated as a COG (council of governments), with access through the CodeRed/OnSolve software. I played with it and loaded some pre-existing maps and a bunch of material from the local COG. I put in a map of Hurley, so I can go in and if there is a tank spill, for example, I can click on it and send the alert out to the folks in Hurley. It took a while, with some issues with FEMA. As they say, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, so if you stay with it long enough, they will finally listen to you. I worked with Adam (Baca, IT director) and we will have a banner scrolling across the top of the new website for alerts, and if you click on that it will take you to more information on the website."
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By Roger Lanse
Silver City Police Department officers responded to a shoplifting at Walmart at about 6:41 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. Officers met with an asset protection employee who advised that two females stole items and took off, one of them leaving her wallet with identification behind.
According to an SCPD incident report, the AP told officers that two females each filled a cart with an assortment of groceries, clothing, and other items. They then proceeded to the self-checkout where they failed to pay for all the items and walked out of the store with the two carts containing the stolen merchandise, refusing to show receipts to Walmart employees. The AP stated both females participated in the shoplifting.
By Frost McGahey, Investigative Journalist.
In 2021 New Mexico was 26th in number of burglaries. The next year the state was first in the nation.* What was the cause of the dramatic rise in burglaries?
On April 12, 2021, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, signed the bill to legalize adult recreational use of marijuana, the Cannabis Regulation Act. It had been passed by the state legislature rather than being put to a popular vote.
By Roger Lanse
On Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, at about 5:33 p.m., Silver City Police Department officers were dispatched to the Skate Park in reference to a bomb threat. The unidentified female caller said she heard five men, all wearing masks and in a black Chrysler, talking about blowing up the courthouse and probation office. According to an SCPD incident report, the caller said all five were between 20 and 30-years-old, were heard 15 to 20 minutes ago, and had a red dufflebag with 12 to 15 guns inside. The caller also requested that no courthouse should be opened the next day, Monday, the 12th.
Both magistrate court judges, the Sixth Judicial District Courthouse, the Silver City Municipal Court, other municipal courts within Grant County, Bayard Police Department Chief Hector Carrillo, and the Adult Probation and Parole Office, were notified by SCPD officers, the report stated. Extra patrols for all these locations were initiated by law enforcement.
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