Local News Releases

The 34th Annual Lighted Christmas Parade will be on Saturday, November 30, 2024 from 7pm to 8pm. The deadline for entry applications is Thursday November 21st at 12:00 pm. The Lighted Christmas parade is sponsored by the Silver MainStreet Project and the Town of Silver City.

All entries are judged for awards. Judges consider three criteria in assigning points to the entries:
child appeal, lighting, and originality. Entries are judged in three categories: commercial, nonprofit/civic, and individual. Awards are for first, second, and third place in each category along with MainStreet Gift Certificates this year!

Parade entries will be assigned a line-up position on the Monday before the parade. You will need to bring your parade entry to your assigned space by 6:00 pm and have all your participants ready to go by
6:30pm.

Friday, Nov. 15

Welfare check
915 Silver Heights Blvd.
Female slumped over the wheel. Officer ran one named female.

Welfare check
2435 E. Highway 180
Female in the parking lot screaming/on the other side of the fence towrd O'Reilly's/she is screaming help/caller advised she is hallucinating. Officers out with named female/everything is okay.

Please join the Hi Lo Silvers for our Christmas concerts on Friday evening, December 13 at 7:00 and Sunday afternoon December 15th at 3:PM . Concerts will be at the Presbyterian Church (The Hearth Event Center) at 1915 N Swan Street in Silver City. The concerts are free. Nada Dates will direct and Rhonda Gorog will accompany on piano. Many selections will include Becky Harwood on bass and Melinda McClanahan on percussion.

After ten year as Director, Nada Dates is retiring. Valdeen Wooton, founder in 2001 of the Hi Lo Silvers, will again direct the chorus.

November 24, at 10 am, 3845 North Swan Street – "Ribbon of Life: Discovering the Wild Animals Winding Secretly and Triumphantly Through Our Cities, Suburbs and Countryside"

Sharman Apt Russell will discuss her recent book, "What Walks This Way: Exploring the Wildlife Around Us Through the Tracks and Signs," which deals with identifying wildlife tracks and signs, with an emphasis on the need for a better vision of how we manage and protect wild animals in North America. She hopes to convince everyone to go outside and look for the signs of coyotes and gray foxes, pocket mice, and mountain lions in our own backyards as well as along trails and dirt roads. She will describe a new national movement in wildlife advocacy that started here in New Mexico and that could bring important changes in our relationship with all the wild animals with whom we share this world.

Doors open at 5 pm - see flyer below

We will be having our monthly chess club meeting. Come learn how to play chess and play chess against others on Tuesday, December 3 at 4pm

We will be having a Roblox day! Come play the video game with us on Tuesday, December 10 at 4pm.

Minecraft club! Come play the popular video game. Explore, fight mobs and go on adventure. Or you can log into the Realm and play with us from home. Thursday, December 12 at 4pm.

We are doing another Smokey Bear Reading Challenge Event. Finish out the challenge with a party! Saturday, December 14 at 1pm.

We have a teen window paint craft. Teens can come make art using window paint for our teen room. Tuesday, December 17 at 4pm.

Come make some food with us, just in time for the holidays. We will be making no bake cookies. Thursday, December 19 at 4pm.

Future Engineers and Squishy Circuits. Play with connective dough. Or make whatever you can think off with LEGO. Saturday, December 21 at 1pm.

Come program and build robots. Come code and build! Thursday, December 26 at 4pm.

Minecraft Club! Come play the video game with us. Explore Realms and go on adventures, Saturday, December 28 at 1pm.

New Year's Craft! Come make hats and decorations for the New Year! Tuesday, December 31 at 4pm.

Wilderness Ranger district to conduct prescribed fires during early December

MIMBRES, NM, Nov. 15, 2024 – The Wilderness Ranger District is planning to conduct multiple prescribe fire projects, including the 250-acre Upper Terry Canyon Prescribed Fire along Forest Road 150. The district will also look to implement the 128-acre T-bird Prescribed Fire directly behind Camp Thunderbird in the 3 Circles Project Area. Other units that may be implemented are near the Sapillo Campground area and additional units adjacent to Terry Springs Prescribed Fire.

Bayard Police Department

Monday, Nov. 11

Fraud/embezzlement
1101 Tom Foy Blvd.
Last night employee was called by an unknown subject who told her they were with the FDA and needed the money from the store to pay for licenses, etc. for the building. Caller believed them and took money from the cash register to a "bitcoin box" at the Bayard Snappy. Deputy spoke with caller.

Unwanted subject
Hurley Avenue
A named female was trespassed from this business and she is in the restroom and hasn't left. Officer made contact with the female and issued her a CTW and she left the property.