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By Lynn Janes
The Silver City Town Council held a regular meeting March 11, 2025. Attendance to the meeting included Mayor Ken Ladner, Mayor Pro Tem Guadalupe Cano, and Councilors Nicholas Prince, Rudy Bencomo and Stan Snider.
Alex Brown, town manager, introduced the new town attorney Charles Kretek. He works with New Mexico government law and municipal law out of Albuquerque but actually lives in Deming. He has over 30-plus years of government law experience.
Ceremonies
By Lynn Janes
The town of Bayard held a special meeting April 3, 2025. Attendance included Mayor John L. Ojinaga, councilors, Frances Gonzales (phone), Eloy Gonzales and Gilbert Ortiz. Martha Salas, city clerk, also attended. Mayor Pro Tem Eloy Medina didn’t attend.
New business
The council approved the video surveillance and access control improvements for the public safety building and community center to be done by APIC Solutions. Salas said she would be presenting projects that have funding that will expire in June 2025. She wanted to have these moving forward right away so the funding would not be lost.
CRITICAL TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER FOR SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS ON SUNDAY... .An upper-level low will move through the Great Basin on Sunday, which will steer the jet stream across New Mexico during the afternoon. Meanwhile, a surface low will develop over eastern Colorado increasing winds across the area. These strong winds will combine with very low relative humidity at all elevations and very dry fuels to create critical to extreme fire weather conditions Sunday afternoon.
Southwest Mountains/Gila NF/Apache NF/GLZ-
Southwest Deserts and Lowlands/Las Cruces BLM/GLZ-South Central Lowlands and Southern Rio Grande Valley/BLM/GLZ-Capitan and Sacramento Mountains/Lincoln NF/LNZ-Texas Fire Weather Zone 055
El Paso County-
April 24,2025 I Sixth Judicial District Attorney Norman R. Wheeler announced today that Frank Anthony Vega, Sr. was held without bond in a pre-trial detention hearing and judges' consideration on April 23,2025 by Sixth Judicial District Court Judge James B. Foy. Vega is charged with Aggravated Assault with a deadly weapon, Resisting, Evading, Obstructing an Officer, Aggravated Burglary [Commits Battery], Aggravated Battery [household member], Child Abuse [intentional or recklessly], False Imprisonment, and Interference with Communications.
District Court Judge Foy in his written explanation stated that Defendant Vega has demonstrated violence against a loved one and an acquaintance on two occasions within the past two weeks. The first being choking the mother of his child and telling her he was going to kill her. In a second altercation Vega chased a man down the street in downtown Silver City brandishing knives in both hands, in broad daylight.
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Photos by Paul Michaud
[Editor's Note: Due to speed issues on the Beat website this evening, I am simply lining the photos up on the page.]
The Tour of the Gila Stage 1 featured the Time Trials beginning at Tyrone and heading southward on NM 90 to a turnaround and racing back to Tyrone for the finish.
Lauren Stevens, last year’s champion begins her Tour of the Gila at Tyrone
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