Community News

Single Socks, a Silver City non-profit thrift store, announced that it has awarded $51,000 in grants to four Grant County anti-hunger organizations, and a local school district, according to a news release issued by the store.  The grants were awarded as part of the organization's Spring 2025 Grant Cycle.

Since its inception in 2009, Single Socks has given away over $711,000 to local food pantries, prepared meals, schools, and other food distribution organizations that serve families in need.

The $51,000 in grant awards is the second-largest amount in the store's history, according to the news release. Catherine Cousland, store manager of Single Socks, praised several of the store's different stakeholders, including its staff.

Photo Courtesy of Gila National ForestSmoke rising from Trout fire this morning, taken from Highway 152 near Hanover.

Looking toward Mimbres from the Highway 35/152 intersection, before the inversion lifted this morning.

Preceptor Tau chapter of Beta Sigma Phi celebrated their opening day for the 2025-26 meeting year with a pizza party on June 12. New officers for the year are; Left to Right -  President Debbie Gerleve, Vice President Rosalie Saiz, Treasurer Marylee Bell, Secretary Maria Elena Sanchez.

For more information on friendship, fun, and service, call 575-590-0057.

FIRE RELIEF FUND

The Trout and Meadow Fires have already scorched 2,170 acres in Grant County—and the flames are still advancing. Our neighbors, local businesses, and treasured landscapes face an uncertain future.The Gila Community Foundation is launching the Grant County Fire Relief Fund to provide rapid, flexible support:

Direct aid for residents who may lose homes or livelihoods.

Emergency assistance for local businesses forced to close or relocate.

Resources for volunteer fire departments that protect our rural communities.

Restoration efforts to heal burned forests, meadows, and wildlife habitats once the fire is contained.

On June 9, 2025, Hidalgo Medical Services (HMS) formally notified the Non-Metro Area Agency on Aging that, effective August 9, 2025, it will no longer provide Older Americans Act services (senior services) at its sites in Gila, Mimbres, Santa Clara and Silver City, in Grant County, New Mexico.

The Non-Metro Area Agency on Aging oversees senior programs throughout NM, outside of Bernalillo County. The Non-Metro Area Agency on Aging is taking the following steps to maintain its commitment to older adults in Grant County:

Working to secure a new service provider to replace HMS in managing the Gila, Mimbres, Santa Clara and Silver City sites. We will announce the new provider as soon as a commitment is obtained.

Silver City, NM — On Saturday, June 7th, Hidalgo Medical Services (HMS) hosted its fifteenth Jump Into Summer event. The event saw an impressive turnout with over 475 registered participants and more than 650 anticipated attendees.

Attendees had the opportunity to engage with various local healthcare system participants, including HMS' Behavioral Health, Dental, Family Support, Human Resources and Credentialing, I.T., Medical, Nursing, and Senior Services divisions.

Natalee Drissell has been awarded the P.E.O. New Mexico State Scholarship toward her Junior Year enrollment this fall. She will be attending New Mexico State University as an Art major with a minor in English, continuing to use art as a platform for communication and community building. She says, "In a world where communication, acceptance, and peace are not often prioritized, I want to offer the people around me a kinder version of the world that we can then strive to build together." Until now, Drissell has been attending Western New Mexico University where she was president of the Art Club and a work-study facilitator at the university's McCray Gallery and Miller Library. Chapter BR of P.E.O. sought to sponsor Drissell for this competitive scholarship because of her vision, as well as her many skills and accomplishments, including two years as a member of the university's Millennium III Honors Program. She has been active in and honored by multiple organizations during her time in Silver City. Her creative writing and poetry have both won awards. Natalee will be spending this summer participating in a program at the New York Academy of Art.

P.E.O. (Philanthropic Education Organization) Sisterhood has been celebrating women helping women for more than 150 years.

Left to Right - Lucy Whitmarsh, Charles Manger, Margaret Shoemaker, Diane LeBlanc, Brenda Tozier, Bonnie Mounyo, Laura WiestThe Jacob Bennett Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution worked on placing flags for Memorial Day, Flag Day and July 4th at Veterans Graves at the Masonic Cemetery in Silver City and the Pinos Altos Cemetery in Pinos Altos, New Mexico. Our chapter members had help from 4h members and the husband of one of our members.

We expect to see flags on Memorial Day and July 4th but are surprised when flags are flown on June 14, which is Flag Day every year. Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the American flag, also known as the Stars and Stripes, by the Second Continental Congress. June 14th recognizes the day in 1777 when the Congress officially approved the design of the flag, which included thirteen stripes, alternating red and white, and thirteen stars, white on a blue field representing the original thirteen colonies.