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.
Grant County Sheriff's Office blotter – Jan. 26 through Jan. 28, 2024
- Category: Local News Releases Local News Releases
- Published: 29 January 2024 29 January 2024
Friday, Jan. 26
Welfare check
Hidden Valley Lane
Elderly female in a red nightgown walking around/can barely walk. Deputy made contact with subject/she is staying with her daughter and wandered off.
Battery
GCDC
(Redacted) grabbed an officer by the hair/no medical needed.
Welfare check
Gold Rush – Santa Rita
Caller from Adult Protective Services advised they received a call from a 71-year-old female advising her son is threatening to take her pellet stove out of her residence/she wants a CTW placed on her son as she is afraid he will steal her pellet stove. Deputy had negative contact x 2/phone has busy tone then hangs up immediately.
Silver City Police Department blotter – Jan. 26 through Jan. 28, 2024
- Category: Local News Releases Local News Releases
- Published: 29 January 2024 29 January 2024
Friday, Jan. 26
Criminal damage to property
200 N. Bullard Street
Advised a named male is punching something in front of Buffalo Bar/can hear him screaming. GCSO deputy with male at the Toad.
Vehicle burglary
910 Silver Heights Blvd. – 1:29 a.m.
Advised she believes someone broke into her car/she got in and everything was a mess. Officer investigating.
Breaking and entering
910 Silver Heights Blvd. – 1:38 a.m.
Zone side window/side motion detector. Advised officer about the alarm. Officer there and will close up the business. Officer is inside/everything is okay.
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - “Casa de Esperanza”
- Category: Local News Releases Local News Releases
- Published: 28 January 2024 28 January 2024
February 4 at 10:00 am, 3845 North Swan Street – “Casa de Esperanza”
Dora Rodriguez is an advocate and activist for migrants’ rights. She is a survivor of the 1980 tragedy that took place in the Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona. A group of Salvadorans were fleeing civil war in their home country of El Salvador and thirteen of them died in the desert, including three minors. This tragedy led to her being one of the first persons assisted by the newly-forming Sanctuary Movement in Tucson, AZ.
Rodriguez will bring awareness about the truth of the brutal desert and what migrants face. Through the telling of her own journey, as well as her day-to-day experiences while volunteering at the southwest border towns, Dora will shed light on current immigration issues and the realities of what is happening.
Waterfowl Identification for Beginning and Intermediate Birders
- Category: Local News Releases Local News Releases
- Published: 27 January 2024 27 January 2024
The local Audubon chapter, Southwestern New Mexico, will be hosting the following program. Open to the public at no cost.
A Guide to Waterfowl Identification for Beginning and Intermediate Birders
Friday, Feb 9, 2024 • 7:00 pm
Harlan Hall, Room 111; WNMU, Silver City
Karen Beckenbach and Bill Norris will provide an overview of waterfowl identification based on general appearance, behavior and habitat. Although this presentation will focus on tips to geese and duck identification, brief attention may be devoted to identification of swans, greb, coots, loons, and cormorants if time permits.
Tri-City police department blotters – Jan. 22 through Jan. 25, 2024
- Category: Local News Releases Local News Releases
- Published: 26 January 2024 26 January 2024
Bayard Police Department
Monday, Jan. 22
Welfare check
Main Street
Caller advised her two sons were knocking on the door and causing noise, so caller asked them to leave. Caller is concerned about her younger son as he is only 15-years-old and still lives at the residence. Caller also advised there may be blood on the outside furniture.
Unwanted subject
Franey Street
Caller advised she got into an argument with a named male and she thinks he is in her back yard/a named female is with him.
Grant County Sheriff's Office blotter – Jan. 22 through Jan. 25, 2024
- Category: Local News Releases Local News Releases
- Published: 26 January 2024 26 January 2024
Monday, Jan. 22
Welfare check
Cliff High School
Caller advised waiting at Chuck's Folly waiting for CYFD to do a welfare check at a residence on Highway 180. Deputy advised with CYFD en route to address on Highway 180/en route back to Cliff Schools.
Criminal damage to property
Camino Azul – Arenas Valley
Caller found a long portion of his fence ran over.
Accident-property damage
E. Highway 180 and Madison Road
Two vehicles/one off the roadway/small white car left. Second caller advised there is damage to the guardrail. DOT was notified and will send someone to check on it.
Silver City Police Department blotter – Jan. 22 through Jan. 25, 2024
- Category: Local News Releases Local News Releases
- Published: 26 January 2024 26 January 2024
Monday, Jan. 22
Harassment
Silver High School
Caller stated her brother is harassing her and following her in his grey Chevy Suburban/he told her sister he was going to kill her/he is on drugs. An officer was dispatched to SHS in reference to . . .
Larceny
1007 Pope Street
Bike stolen sometime this weekend.
Fraud/embezzlement
Walnut Drive
Advised he is calling on behalf of his mother who is currently in the hospital in Las Cruces/a history of dementia/he does have power of attorney of mother/there are charges of a home and two vehicles that were purchased within the last six months/requesting a phone call. Officer made contact with caller.
GNF works with partners, volunteers to restore trails and watersheds
- Category: Local News Releases Local News Releases
- Published: 25 January 2024 25 January 2024
Post-fire forest restoration: a long-term endeavor
SILVER CITY, NM, January 25, 2024 – In 2023 Gila National Forest took major steps toward restoring trails and watersheds damaged by the Whitewater-Baldy Complex Fire of 2012. A fast-moving, lightning-caused fire, it consumed more than 274,000 acres of the Gila National Forest, holding title as New Mexico’s largest wildfire for a decade, until it was surpassed by both the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire and the Black Fire in 2022.