Local News Releases

Author Ria Bonneamie will visit the library on Friday, November 14, 3:00pm to read from her latest mystery novel Dual Issues. Dual Issues is a sequel to Bonneamie's first mystery, A Dual Affair, featuring unusual twin detectives solving multiple mysteries at once. The twins often reflect on the aspects of their gender duality. She is a dreamer, an artist and the intuitive one. He questions, rationalizes and keeps them both focused and safe. In Dual Issues they face internal conflicts, with the help of unconventional locals such as a seer and her young autistic companion looking for a Navajo two-spirit people. 

Bonneamie also wrote Quantum Pulse, seven arcane tales of the subconscious mind ranging from dreams to past lives, to a convergence of time and space, all conveying the ubiquitous aspect of any action past, present and future within oneself. 

Ria Bonneamie lived the first part of her life in Europe and Northern Africa. She studied art and psychology, and traveled extensively through much of the northern hemisphere. After settling in the USA, she worked as a mother, a chef, a rancher, a hypnotherapist and a visual and literary artist. 

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Julia Robinson, author of Early Jewish Merchants of Silver City, will lead her Lunch and Learn audience to learn how many features of our modern town came directly from the leadership of early Jewish merchants. 

Noon, Wednesday, November 19, in room ABC in the Resource Center on the WNMU campus at the corner of 12th and Kentucky Streets, Robinson's presentation will offer photographs from her most recent book.

Asked how she became interested in the Jewish pioneers, Robinson says, "I first wondered why I had heard of all the other 'outstanding' early Silver City residents, including Billy the Kid, the madams, and Rebecca Brewer, even the Chinese and Buffalo Soldiers who had stayed in the area, but had never heard of any early Jewish settlers.

Silver City Mayor Ken Ladner would like to invite your input, ideas and inspirations toward making our town even better than it already is. 

This month's "Monday Meeting With The Mayor" will be November 17th, in the J. Cloyd Miller Library Forum Area at Western New Mexico University anytime between 9:00AM to Noon.

All are invited to stop by anytime between 9:00 AM to Noon and share  your insights and ideas with Mayor Ladner.

Drinks and coffee will be furnished compliments of WNMU.

The Grant County Community Concert Association presents C Street Brass on Friday, November 14th in the WNMU Fine Arts Theater at 7 PM.

C Street Brass is the project of five incredibly handsome friends. On stage their brass instruments come alive as they take you on a tour of musical styles you will recognize from the past on into the future. They deliver on their mission to connect music lovers from all walks of life through concert experiences that are energetic and engaging.

During an Ensemble in Residence at Carnegie Mellon University from 2012 – 2015 the group fell in love with the thriving music scene of Pittsburgh, PA where the group is now based. They have been featured in a number of performing arts series around the United States and internationally.

Holly Noonan, director of the Crooked Forest Institute, will speak to Rotary at noon Nov 18th at the GMC conference room. The Institute is a sustainable community and economic development project in Grant County. 

Holly partnered with veteran Earthen Architect Joseph Kennedy to develop business scenarios where small, non-toxic adobe homes could once again become housing for low- and moderate-income New Mexicans. The inspiration for the project came from her own experience of homelessness after an illness made her too sensitive to chemicals to live in a conventionally built home. By pairing a Vocational Education program with a Nonprofit Housing Developer program, Crooked Forest Institute aims to create durable, fireproof and carbon-negative neighborhoods on a local Community Land Trust. 

High concentration of illness-causing microcystins detected

QUEMADO, N.M., Nov. 10, 2025—The Gila National Forest has issued a public health and safety area closure of Quemado Lake due to a harmful algal bloom. The area closure prohibits public access to Quemado Lake and National Forest System lands south of Quemado Lake Road (Forest Road 13). This includes Cove Day Use Area, Juniper Campground, El Caso Campgrounds 1 - 3, Largo Trail #14, Quemado Lake Fishing Trail #144, Lakeshore Access Trail #1441, Juniper-Lake Access Trail #1442, and Cove-Lake Access Trail #1443.

Tuesday, Nov. 4

Disturbance
Main Street – 10:13 p.m.
Caller stated two named sons are intoxicated and fighting/they are fist-fighting/she is afraid they are going to hurt her/they have gotten in her face/they are in the living room and kitchen/not fighting anymore/they are separated/advised she has one in cuffs. Officer requested EMS for a 28-year-old male punched on the left side of his face multiple times. EMS advised arrived at 10:51 p.m./advised clear of scene at 11 p.m. Caller called back advising the two boys went after (redacted) as soon as the officers left.

Friday, Nov. 7

Breaking and entering – Bard Street

Sunday, Nov. 2

Suspicious activity
N. Hurley Road – North Hurley
Assisted GCSO with a male who followed caller's daughter home and got out of his vehicle and started yelling at the daughter.

Disturbance
East Street -- Bayard
Assisted BPD with a female who was outside residence yelling and honking her horn. Female was issued a CTW for location and left upon request.

Welfare check
East Street -- Bayard
Assist BPD with a male who was possibly a runaway who left in mom's vehicle and hasn't returned the vehicle.