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By Roger Lanse
On Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, at about 7:56 a.m., a Grant County Sheriff's Office deputy was dispatched to Gila Regional Medical Center for a reported stabbing that had happened earlier that night in Santa Clara. When the deputy arrived at GRMC, he saw the 60-year-old male victim with three cuts to the inside of his left elbow and a bleeding laceration on his back.
According to a GCSO offense report, the victim told the deputy he was at the James Street residence of Amanda Madrid in Santa Clara hanging out with Madrid and others. The victim said at one point he wanted to leave but Madrid kept asking him "for something" so he wouldn't leave, then Madrid (later determined to be 39 years-old) grabbed a Daisy BB gun and pointed it at him. After telling her not to point the gun at him, the victim told the deputy, the report said, she fired the BB gun but did not hit him. As they struggled for possession of the gun the report stated the victim was able to wrest the gun from Madrid.
[Editor's Note: The author has tried for several weeks to get confirmation on the names of the students the board recognized, as well as more specific information on the financial report. However, her multiple emails to the persons involved were never answered. We apologize for the lateness of this report.]
By Lynn Janes
The Silver City Consolidated Schools held a work session August 15, 2022. President Ashley Montenegro called the meeting to order. Other board members in attendance, Patrick Cohn, Mike McMillan and Eddie Flores (phone). Superintendent William Hawkins also attended. Michelle Diaz came in after roll call.
The board approved the work session agenda.
Hawkins' presentation addressed the new strategic plan being implemented this school year. Studor has developed the plan. The superintendent presented the board with the mission, vision and values of the plan. He said he would like to see this continue and become an annual process. The next process would involve doing a score card and monitoring the progress. Hawkins realized it had been a long process to get the plan done but felt it had been worth it. They sent out a final survey and got back 48 opinions. The vision statement got an 89.1 percent approval, mission statement 83 percent approval and the values 80.8 percent approval.
By Lynn Janes
The town of Bayard held a regular town meeting August 22, 2022. The meeting started with Mayor Chon Fierro calling the meeting to order. Attendance at the meeting included Mayor Chon Fierro, Mayor Pro Tem Raul Villanueva and councilors Jose Diaz, Frances Gonzales and Eloy Medina.
The council approved the agenda
Public input
Resident Melissa Rackel addressed the council. She said the council and administration displayed a lot of hostility and the residents didn't like being targeted. She went on to chastise them for their public scolding of the municipal judge in a public forum at the last board meeting. She said he had a better pulse on the community than any of them did. She told them they needed to communicate better and without the hostility.
Resident Tighe Berg with Recreation Works addressed the council and told them she had seen in the last meeting that Diaz had been quoted in the Silver City Daily Press and Grant County Beat saying that the business with the antique tractor needs to be gone after, just as they had M and M Auto. Berg said no one had ever reached out and said there had been a problem or an ordinance not being adhered to. She said they obey rules and ordinances, so she had not been happy about the statement. She noted the tractor had been moved July 11, 2022, and Diaz knew that, so it has been seen as an attack on the business. She went on to ask if it could be because the business is a white-owned business in a predominantly nonwhite community.
Upper Gila River Valleuthern Gila Highlands/Black Range-Southern
Gila Foothills/Mimbres Valley-Eastern Black Range Foothills-
Including the cities of Faywood, Hurley, Mule Creek, Fort Bayard,
Hillsboro, Buckhorn, Gila Hot Springs, Kingston, Mimbres, Winston,
Lake Roberts, Cliff, Silver City, and Grant County Airport
120 PM MDT Mon Sep 12 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY
EVENING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...A portion of southwest New Mexico, including most of north
Grant County and western Sierra County
* WHEN...From Tuesday afternoon through Tuesday evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Low-water crossings may be flooded.
[Editor's Note: This is part 2 of the meeting, as the declaration of an emergency in Grant County was covered at this link: https://www.grantcountybeat.com/news/news-articles/73763-emergency-declaration-that-was-approved-by-grant-county-commissioner-082322 This article starts with the beginning of the special meeting on Aug. 23, 2022.]
By Mary Alice Murphy
At the beginning of the Grant County Commission special meeting on Aug. 23, 2022, a public hearing was scheduled on the proposed abandonment of Bald Knoll Road. However, several people from the Cliff area, who were marooned by the damage to the US 180 Bridge, requested the hearing be changed so they could give testimony.
However, the District Manager for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Bill Childress was on the phone to address the proposed abandonment of a portion of Bald Knoll Road. "We would like to express that we are opposed to the abandonment of the road because it provides access to public lands. It includes about 5,000 acres of put land. We try to gain public access wherever we can and to retain that access. We have issued a Title V right-of-way. If the county chooses to abandon the road, they we will be required to put the land back to its original state. The public road provides access to residents, and state and federal managers of the land. The road has provided public access for a very long time."
District 3 Commissioner Alicia Edwards said she has dug "pretty deeply into this issue. I was wondering if BLM would entertain a land exchange. I see both sides."
{Editor's Note: The National Weather Service seems to be working frantically to get out flood watches and warnings today and then canceling some of them. The Beat can't keep up, so we are simply warning those in the Black Fire Burn scar area to be aware that rain that is happening or is predicted to happen over the next few hours may cause "minor flodding." You know who you are. Be careful!]
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