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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."
[Editor's Note: This is part 2 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 about the Grant County Commission work session on Feb. 11, 2025 continues with presentations.
Joseph Hill, director of prevention and community collaborations at the Center for Health Innovation-Public Health Institute (CHI-PHI), presented the Grant County Community Health Council quarterly report. He began with the council's mission statement, which is to bring together to assess, plan, prioritize and coordinate local efforts to empower the community. He said: "Our vision is to form a diverse and passionate group of individuals that unite to strengthen local resources and build new opportunities in Grant County. And so I just want to show you some highlights of how we've been doing that over the past six months."
[Editor's Note: Members of the public have reached out to the Beat to share information about what happened to Dr. Shepard, but wish to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. One has claimed that there is an ongoing group meeting to further harass Shepard headed by a downtown businessman.]
By Frost McGahey, Investigative Reporter
“Governor Grisham had planned on joining the Harris Administration in D.C. after the election,” a source said. “She was shocked when Trump won.”
“The plan was for Howie to become governor, and other people would move up in the administration. They were so dumbfounded by the election results that they had to regroup. It was after that the Santa Fe attacks began with the first one being done by the State of New Mexico Auditor.”
By Lynn Janes
The town of Hurley had a special meeting February 19, 2025. Mayor Ed Stevens, Mayor Pro Tem Reynaldo Maynes and Pete Ordonez attended. Two council positions have been vacated.
The council approved the agenda with one change the deputy clerk position that will be voted on would be for Dezinae Salas. They also excluded the judge's report and library report on the consent agenda.
Public Input
By Lynn Janes
[Author's note; article partially written (after executive session) using the minutes provided by the Village of Santa Clara due to technical issues.]
The Village of Santa Clara held a regular meeting February 13, 2025. Mayor Arnold Lopez called the meeting to order. Mayor Pro Tem Albert Esparza, trustees, Peter Erickson, Olga Amador and Ralph Trujillo attended.
The council approved the minutes with the change of moving the executive session after the mayor's report. They also approved the minutes from the last two meetings and the department reports.
Mayor's report
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