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Gila National Forest Provides Tour of Supply Cache and Aerial Fire Base
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- Published: 04 July 2024 04 July 2024
Photos, video and article by Cara Staab
On June 26th, the Gila National Forest provided a tour of the Silver City Incident Support Cache and Aerial Fire Base, co-located at the Grant County Airport near Hurley.
Cache Manager Alex Tovar, Assistant Cache Manager Joseph Vega, and Assistant Aerial Fire Base Manager Josh Rascon led members of the Western Institute for Lifelong Learning (WILL) around the facilities, explaining how their crews support federal emergencies across the country. Such emergencies include wildfires, hurricanes, and even once, a space shuttle tragedy. Prescribed fire operations are also supported. Approximately 150 people are employed at the center during the height of fire season.
Future Forge - Makerspace Open House and Fundraiser 062924
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- Published: 04 July 2024 04 July 2024
Photos, video and article by Martha Hamblen
About a hundred people toured the workshop spaces at the Future Forge Makerspace Open House and Fundraiser on Saturday, June 29th.
Children, adults and teens were painting, planting and crowding around the numerous pieces of equipment in the 4,000 Sq. ft. building at 307 East College Avenue. It was the perfect way to showcase what Future Forge is all about.
Dr. James "Butch" Rosser introduces new DroneSTEM program
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- Published: 02 July 2024 02 July 2024
Photos by article by Mary Alice Murphy
Silver City has the honor of having a world-renowned surgeon treating patients at his clinic and at Gila Regional Medical Center.
Dr. James "Butch" Rosser, former football player and member of SAGES, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, has worked to develop a program called Stealth Learning. With the help of Stacey Cox, "we have submitted a grant application for funding.And today is the coup de grace, with us introducing the program to stakeholders."
The event on Thursday, June 27, 2024, at the Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center and hosted by Fight Like a Girl, whom Rosser gave kudos to, introduced about a dozen students and interested adults to the computerized video games teaching one how to fly a drone and land it and learn to do some of the things that surgeons do in surgery. They will learn about the STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering, math—to develop career opportunities. He said the program that day would also expose them to validated video games for good.
Painting equipment missing
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- Published: 02 July 2024 02 July 2024
By Roger Lanse
The owner of Artisan Painting, at 3130-A E. Highway 180, informed the Grant County Regional Dispatch Authority, Saturday, June 29, 2024, at about 10:50 a.m., of a burglary at his business. When a Silver City Police Department officer arrived at the address around 11 a.m., the victim told the officer he arrived at his business about 10 minutes earlier to find the combination lock to his utility trailer missing.
According to an SCPD incident report, the victim stated when he opened the rear door to a utility trailer, he saw that a Graco Magnum X7 paint sprayer valued at $700, along with a 50-foot air compressor hose valued at $200, were not there. The last time the equipment was seen, the victim said, was two days earlier.
Freeport Commences Commissioning of New Indonesian Smelter and Provides Update on Second-Quarter 2024 Copper and Gold Sales
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- Published: 02 July 2024 02 July 2024
To download a PDF of the release, please visit the following link: Freeport Commences Commissioning of New Indonesian Smelter and Provides Update on Second-Quarter 2024 Copper and Gold Sales
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Freeport (NYSE: FCX) announced today that its Indonesian subsidiary, PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI), substantially completed construction of its new Manyar smelter in Gresik, Indonesia in June 2024 and has commenced commissioning operations. FCX expects the smelter will begin producing copper cathodes in the coming months and continues to target full ramp up by the end of 2024 in line with previous expectations.
Richard C. Adkerson, Chairman of the Board, and Kathleen L. Quirk, President and Chief Executive Officer, said: "We are pleased to announce this important milestone for our new smelter in Indonesia. Our team executed this large and complex project extremely well and is prepared to deliver the ramp-up to full production safely and efficiently. The completion of the project positions PT-FI as a fully integrated producer in Indonesia, providing a foundation to extend its long-term operating rights."
Former Judge speaks out against Bail Reform Amendment, Part Two.
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- Published: 01 July 2024 01 July 2024
By Frost McGahey, Investigative Journalist
Maurine LaneyIn 2016 a constitutional amendment was passed on Bail Reform. It was sponsored by New Mexico Supreme Court Justice, Charles W. Daniels.
These changes to the law were at least part of the reason Magistrate Judge Maurine Laney retired from the bench. Laney said "I retired because I felt that common sense had been legislated out of the law and as judge, I could no longer do any good. The amendment actually stopped me from helping people. I was no longer allowed to use my judgment and common sense in setting a bond. I had to depend on a prosecutor to make a motion. If they dropped the ball, a dangerous person would be released and bad things could happen."
UPDATE: Woman shot in Arenas Valley
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- Published: 01 July 2024 01 July 2024
Also Date corrected.
By Roger Lanse
According to Grant County Sheriff's Office staff, on Friday, June 28, 2024, GCSO deputies responded to 15 Monte Street in Arenas Valley where the Grant County Regional Dispatch Authority advised a woman had reportedly been shot by her son. Deputies arrived on scene at about 9:31 p.m. and found the woman, shot in her left side, at a neighbor's residence across the street, where she had walked to get help. GCSO staff said a .45 pistol was used in the shooting.
Arenas Valley shooting
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- Published: 01 July 2024 01 July 2024
By Roger Lanse
According to an unofficial statement from a local law enforcement source, a woman was shot in the stomach Saturday, June 24, in Arenas Valley. She was transported to University Hospital. A search warrant was executed in an effort to secure additional evidence. The case is under investigation. No other information is available at this time.