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Local News Releases
These releases come from other sources than the Grant County Beat. This category will include events in and news releases from Grant, Catron, Hidalgo and Luna counties.
- Category: Local News Releases
Will you join Rio Grande Foundation and our project Opportunity for All Kids NM for a conversation on education reform? New Mexico's education system has been ranked nationally dead last for far too long. Join us as OAKNM Program Director Rebecca Dow facilitates a conversation with Rep. Luis Terrazas on education reform.
Who should attend? Parents and guardians, concerned citizens, students, educators, school board members and administrative staff. If you're interested in improving New Mexico's education system, this event is for you!
- Category: Local News Releases
Western New Mexico University will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the founding of it Law Enforcement Training Academy. Speaking at the event will be WNMU President Joseph Shepard, Academy Direct Gilbert Najar, and Retired Police Chief Fred Radosevich, who will be offering a retrospective on the academy's first graduating class. Refreshments will be served.
Western New Mexico University
September 11, 8:00-9:00 a.m.
Besse-Forward Global Resource Center, Western New Mexico University
- Category: Local News Releases
Diane LeBlanc will speak on behalf of the Silver City Jacob Bennett Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) at the local Rotary meeting on September 10, 2024. She will present a program on DAR, the national America250 initiative, and upcoming local DAR America 250! projects.
DAR was founded in 1890 and incorporated in 1896 by an Act of Congress. It is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America's future through better education for children.
- Category: Local News Releases
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
The regular monthly board meeting of the Grant Soil and Water Conservation District will be held Monday, September 16, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the NRCS Building; 3082 32nd Street Bypass; Suite C; Silver City, NM 88061. The meeting is open to the public.
To request a copy of the agenda or for more information, please call 575-388-1569 or email
- Category: Local News Releases
On Wednesday, September 4, WNMU will begin paving work along Kentucky Street, taking place between College Avenue and 12th Street. This project will begin at 6:00 a.m. and is expected to be completed by 6:00 p.m.
During this time, the entire roadway will be closed to all traffic, and the parking lot at the Juan Chacon Building will be inaccessible.
All staff, faculty, students and visitors to that area of campus will be diverted to the parking lot at the Fine Arts Center Theatre. This lot will only be accessible through the north entrance at 12th Street and West Rhoda Road (entering through the double gates).
Western New Mexico University - September 4, 2024, 6:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Kentucky Street, Western New Mexico University
- Category: Local News Releases
Friday, Aug. 30
Unwanted subject
N. Pinos Altos Street
Advised a named female was on her front doorstep and she has a CTW against her/wants her to leave. Officer – put out ATL for Aisha Myles to issue indefinite CTW for the location.
Unwanted subject
2501 E. Highway 180
Homeless people are camped by Del Taco on Walmart property/wants LE to respond. Officer – giving them til mid-day to clear of that location and issued Crystal Sanders and one other subject an indefinite CTW for the location.
- Category: Local News Releases
Shows Apache Women's Baskets And Frederick Peso Sculptures
[ September 2, Truth or Consequences ] – Women Weave the World ( www.womenweavetheworld.org ), a newly formed campaign to engage people to actively participate in unity and resilience, has been invited by the Chiricahua Apache Nation to join in their Sacred Origins and Lifeways Art Exhibition. The show has its opening reception Friday, September 6, 5 – 7 pm at Light Art Space, 209 W. Broadway Street, Silver City, New Mexico.
A collection of over thirty baskets – some three hundred years old – woven by Mescalero Apache women will be shown. They are from the collection of Sophia Peso and her husband, renowned sculptor, Frederick Peso. Several of his bronze sculptures will also be shown.
- Category: Local News Releases
Bayard Police Department
Saturday, Aug. 31
Battery
BPD
Officer – female involved in fight at the Flame stated she does not want to press charges and does not know who the male is.
Disturbance
B Street
12-year-old sister is refusing to get in her car to go home/caller has location on the sister and it is showing her in someone’s yard.
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