Local News Releases

Please join us on Thursday for a casual, no-fluff presentation about visual branding and social media for small businesses and organizations by Julia + Cam Wilde, New Mexico MainStreet Marketing and Graphic Design Specialists. Learn what's working now online, what to skip, how to prioritize, and how to build a presence that actually represents you and gets potential customers to act. 

This training is FREE TO ATTEND! 

We know you are busy! We are pleased to offer two sessions, to accommodate as many schedules as possible: 

Thursday, April 23, 9:00 AM

Thursday, April 23, 5:00 PM

Gila Hotshots (USDA Forest Service photo)(Silver City, NM, April 20, 2026) — The Gila National Forest's firefighting resources have completed their annual training requirements, passed readiness reviews and are ready to respond to wildfires. Resources include two interagency hotshot crews, four ten-person initial attack hand crews, nine wildland-fire engine crews, one Type 1 helicopter, one Type 3 helicopter and three unmanned aerial systems and pilot. Type 1 helicopters are larger helicopters with expanded capacity for personnel and firefighting resources while smaller, Type 3 helicopters can transport personnel quickly to incidents. 

Leonore Hildebrandt Leonore Hildebrandt and Elise Stuart will read from their latest books of poetry on Friday, April 24, 2026 at 3pm at the Silver City Public Library. Their works, both released in 2025, talk of ordinary things in plain language, but explore difficult topics in an effort to transform them.

Kirun Kapur writes about Leonore Hildebrandt's book Somewhere the Day Begins, which "explores personal, artistic and natural landscapes with tender description and memorable music. The careful intelligence of these poems makes note of both the beauty and the unfathomable difficulties of our current world… Hildebrandt reminds us that it is our job to 

leave traces of joy.' 'Earth is spinning you into a goodness/ only you and I are capable of making up,' she writes. Somewhere the Day Begins serves as a book of modern pastorals, reminding us that, even in times like these, the land and our own acts of imagination still have the power to replenish our spirit."

Right from the beginning, Elise Stuart's collection of poems, Across A Field of Stars, takes you on a journey. You feel the heat of the sand at the water's edge in the New Mexican desert, you see the little side path that brings you to the slow-moving river, you hear the rush of ravens' wings flying above your head. The journey becomes more intimate as Stuart takes you on the path of her own story of loss and transformation, constantly entwined and enlivened by the wind in the trees and the stars shining light against the dark.

Free public event—

Jacob Bennett Chapter, Silver City, NM

Daughters of the American Revolution

America 250! Celebration and Revolutionary War Patriots Marker Dedication

Saturday, May 30, 2026

2:00 PM

Sunday, Apr. 12

Noise complaint – W. Cain Drive – 2:32 a.m.
Hit and run accident –N. Durango Street
Criminal trespass warning – N. Swan Street
Suspicious activity – S. Bard Street
Harassment – E. Pine Street
Unwanted subject – E. Kelly Street
Animal – N. Bullard Street
Accident with injuries – N. Pope Street
Suspicious activity – N. Bayard Street
Threat – N. Gold Street

Monday, Apr. 13

LORDSBURG – Bridge deck repairs on Interstate 10 at mile marker 5 (Exit 5) in Road Forks will begin on Wednesday, April 22.

During construction, westbound I-10 traffic will not be able to cross over to access NM 80 southbound. Motorists traveling northbound on NM 80 will be able to turn right onto I-10 eastbound; left turns onto I-10 westbound will not be permitted.

Lane closures will be in place throughout the duration of the project. Work is scheduled Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and anticipated to be completed by May 2026, weather permitting.

April 26, at 10:00 am, 3845 North Swan Street 

 Rev. Tina DeYoe of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Los Alamos will talk about healing during this Sunday's service.

"We pay attention to healing, our individual and collective healing. What does it mean to heal? According to Dr. Gabor Mate, "Healing is actually the capacity to hold pain". So then, what does it mean to hold pain and how do we hold and release pain? In this Sunday's service we will explore embodied practices that can help us cope with our pain," Rev. De Yoe said.

With a love of social justice and service, Rev. Tina De Yoe became an ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister in October 2023. She serves as the Minister Pro Tem for the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos. 

April 25, at 2:00 pm, 3845 North Swan Street –  Special screening of "Last Days on Trinity Lake"

Every year, thousands of people in lot-lease communities are displaced by predatory investors who buy the land beneath homes—still commonly but inaccurately called "mobile homes" and extract millions of dollars in annual revenue from working families and people on fixed incomes. Their model often relies on steep rent increases, deferred maintenance, and, in some cases, community closure when the land can yield greater profits elsewhere. This has become a common way corporate investors extract wealth from ordinary people who are simply trying to meet their essential needs.

Residents in New Mexico face particular vulnerabilities due to weak laws that fail to inform consumers or protect their land tenancies. In comparison, grazing leases are protected in such a way that New Mexico cattle enjoy more secure tenancy than these homeowners.