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.
- Category: Local News Releases
Program: Gila Wildlife Rescue
Friday, September 18, 2026
7:00 PM 8:30 PM
WNMU Harlan Hall, Room 111
12th St and Alabama St, Silver City
Free and open to the public. Brought to you by Bird Alliance of SW New Mexico.
Denise and Dennis Miller rehabilitate and release between 200 to 300 animals each year in New Mexico and west Texas at Gila Wildlife Rescue. Both have deep roots in Silver City and dedication to the wildlife and ecology of the surrounding area. Join us for educational, inspirational and humorous accounts of their wildlife rescue experience over the last 47 years. Their recent book, Keeping Them Wild, documents true-life accounts of their very close-up and personal experiences with wildlife.
Attending remotely? Use this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88907226053?pwd=laH1utw7S4fdRhTE9FbDGpF9bGFP1a.1
- Category: Local News Releases
Sunday, August 30, 2026
8:00 AM- 4:00 PM
Free and open to the public. Brought to you by Bird Alliance of SW New Mexico.
Are you interested in feeding backyard birds but don't know where to start? Or perhaps you're an experienced backyard feeder who wants to check out what's working for others? Either way, the Grant County Backyard Feeder Tour is for you. Hosts will open their yards to visitors throughout Grant County for some premier backyard birding, timed to coincide with peak hummingbird migration (don't worry there will be plenty of other backyard birds at the feeders as well!). This will be a DIY tour where you can visit as many or as few yards as you like.
Registration is required to receive a map of open yards. Visit the Bird Alliance web site home page to sign up. https://www.birdallianceswnm.org/
- Category: Local News Releases
Sunday, July 19
Fire, other – Gold Street – Silver City
Game and Fish – West Fork Road – Gila Hot Springs
Welfare check – Taylor Mountain Road – Faywood
Suspicious activity – E. Highway 180 – Silver City (Walmart)
Medical – Thompson Road – Tyrone
Unwanted subject – East Street – Santa Clara
Agency assist – Silver Heights Blvd. – Silver City (Silver Heights Chevron)
Agency assist – Highway 180 – MM 120 (1 mile west of Highway 152 junction)
- Category: Local News Releases
Program: Hummingbirds of the Gila Region
Friday, August 14, 2026
7:00 PM 8:30 PM
WNMU Harlan Hall, Room 111
12th St and Alabama St, Silver City
Free and open to the public. Brought to you by Bird Alliance of SW New Mexico.
Did you know that the Gila Region boasts up to 12 species of hummingbirds in a given year? Some are residents, others visit for the breeding season and still others migrate through in huge numbers! Want to learn about the biology, behavior, ecology and identification of these little bundles of energy? Then join us!
Attending remotely? Use this Zoom link to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88915725641?pwd=59sRlgZu90g8tP3p2N3em5EOy3SQQH.1
- Category: Local News Releases
Saturday, August 8, 2026, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Location: Parking lot at the corner of 12th and Pope Streets, Silver City, NM
The Gila Native Plant Society is calling all gardeners to come to its annual native plant sale on Saturday, August 8, 2026, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the parking lot across from Gough Park in Silver City. Native plant vendors from New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado will be selling a wide variety of native trees, shrubs, perennial flowers and cacti. Some vendors can take cash or checks only, so please come prepared. The sale is open to all. For more information, check the Gila Native Plant Society website: ( https://gilanps.org/native-plant-sale-2026/ ).
- Category: Local News Releases
Fort Bayard Volunteer Fire Department
Monday, July 20
Fire
37 Santa Rita Street
Caller advised the power went out and she noticed the power pole on fire/she can see active fire and white smoke/she believes lightning hit it/there are no structures around that she knows of. A second caller advised lightning hit his power pole/go to Santa Rita Road and they will open a gate for access. GCSO and FBVFD were advised/FBVFD has ETA of 12 minutes.
- Category: Local News Releases
Sunday, July 19
Disturbance – Little Walnut Road – A 13-year-old male juvenile was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault.
Suspicious activity – N. Rosedale Road
Welfare check – Fran Drive
Disturbance – N. Cheyenne Avenue
Criminal trespass warning – N. Hudson Street
Domestic – N. Yucca Street – Lisa Lopez, 32, was arrested on a charge of battery against a household member.
- Category: Local News Releases
August 2, at 10:00 am, 3845 North Swan Street – "When Your Ship Won't Come In"
Heidi Ogas, resident of Silver City for 40 plus years and longtime Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Silver City member, will present one of her favorite services written by her stepfather, UU minister Joe Willis.
"When Your Ship Won't Come In" was written in 1992 but still has meaning in these current times of uncertainty, confusion and disappointment. "When we have hoped for something different, but it doesn't happen, how do we know it would have been better if it did. We don't know, so we move forward in Grace and live the best we can with what we have," Ogas said.
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