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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
Monday, Aug. 4
Fight
Diamond Street
Can see two younger males physically fighting. Another caller from Coffey Street advised of the fight as well. GCSO deputy-two males in investigative detention. Officer – request ambulance for lacerations around the lip area of an 18-year-old.
Narcotic
Tom Foy Blvd.
Student caught with a vape pen/they are in the office and parents were notified.
- Category: Local News Releases
Friday, Aug. 8
Shoplifting
Carrasco Avenue
Male was inside the store opening up sodas and drinking them/also took a roll of TP and took it out of the store.
Animal
D Street
Loose dog reported in the area.
Disturbance
Hutchinson Street – Santa Clara
Agency assist with XCPD for subjects arguing/negative contact with anyone.
- Category: Local News Releases
Hurley Volunteer Fire Department
Thursday, Aug. 7
Car fire
Highway 180
2010 Honda CRV/did see flames under the hood/occupants were advised to exit the vehicle. GCSO deputy advised vehicle is fully engulfed. Whiskey Creek VFD advised to page out Hurley and Santa Clara. Deputy – small grass fire not traveling very fast/sounds like rounds are going off in the vehicle/possibly the airbags/send next wrecker on rotation.
Pinos Altos Volunteer Fire Department
- Category: Local News Releases
Tuesday, Aug. 5
Criminal damage to property and assault against a household member
Prescott Street
Criminal damage to property
Prescott Street
Verbal dispute
Stone Street
Thursday, Aug. 7
- Category: Local News Releases
Sunday, Aug. 3
Unwanted subject -- E. Highway 180
Suspicious vehicle – W. Highway 180
Open door – E. 32nd Street
Burglary – N. Bullard Street
Welfare check – N. Rosedale Road
Battery – N. Pope Street
Shoplifting – Ethel Lane
Criminal trespass warning – W. 6th Street
Hit and run accident – N. Bennett Street
- Category: Local News Releases
Sharla Lefkowitz-Oberg, left, visits with previous Silver City MainStreet Project Executive Director Lucy WhitmarshAugust 17, at 10:00 am, 3845 North Swan Street – "Silver City Mainstreet's 40th Anniversary"
Sharal Lefkowitz-Oberg, Silver City MainStreet Executive Director, will talk about what Silver City Mainstreet is and what it does for Silver City.
"Our group's mission is to encourage a vibrant, historic downtown Silver City that is recognized as the heart of our diverse community," Lefkowitz-Oberg said.
The Silver City MainStreet Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1985. In addition to its core MainStreet work, the organization operates the Silco Theater and manages the Murray Ryan Visitor Center. Management of the Murray Ryan Visitor Center is provided by the Silver City MainStreet Project on behalf of the Town of Silver City.
- Category: Local News Releases
8:00 am to 6:00 pm in front of This and That - Hwy 180 (previously Scott Nichols Ford) See Flyer Below
- Category: Local News Releases
Beehive Cactus (Echinocereus coccineus), photo by Elroy LimmerThe Gila Native Plant Society (GNPS) is urging gardeners to come to its annual native plant sale on Saturday, August 16, 2025. It will be held from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the parking lot on the corner of 12th and Pope Streets, across from Gough Park. Five native plant vendors from New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado will be selling a wide variety of native trees, shrubs, perennial flowers, grasses, cacti, succulents and vines. Purchasers can select the plants they want and discuss their placement and care with native plant growers. Cash and checks only, please. The sale is open to all.
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