Local News Releases

In observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday, Silver Schools will be closed November 24, through November 28, 2025 and Cliff Schools will be closed November 26 & 27, 2025. 

Regular class schedules will resume on Monday, December 01, 2025. 

District Administration Offices will be closed from November 26, through November 28, 2025. 

Regular business hours will resume on Monday, December 01, 2025. 

DATED: November 18, 2025 

/s/ William D. Hawkins 

Superintendent 

Silver Consolidated School District 

Up to $10,000 available for local organizations

SILVER CITY, NM — October 2025 — The Gila Community Foundation (GCF) is pleased to announce the opening of the Fall 2025 Southline Grant Cycle, offering grants up to $10,000 in unrestricted funding to strengthen and sustain organizations serving Grant, Luna, and Doña Ana Counties.

This special grant opportunity is made possible through a partnership with Southline Transmission LLC, which continues to invest in the resilience and vitality of Southern New Mexico communities. Grants are intended to help local organizations address operational needs, enhance programming, and expand their impact across the region.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

The regular monthly board meeting of the Grant Soil and Water Conservation District will be held Monday, November 17th, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the NRCS Building; 3082 32nd Street Bypass; Suite C; Silver City, NM  88061.   The meeting is open to the public.

To request a copy of the agenda or for more information, please call 575-388-1569 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Favorable weather conditions in place for hazardous fuels reduction work

SILVER CITY, N.M., Nov. 13, 2025— Gila National Forest is planning prescribed fire operations this Monday, November 17, pending all required approvals. We estimate this work to be completed on Monday and will monitor the area over the following week. We use prescribed fires to help reduce overgrown vegetation to help protect local communities, infrastructure and natural resources from wildfires.

Prescribed fires planned for the area include:

 Playing Gin Rummy and Cribbage every Wednesday afternoon at the Toad.  1:00 PM.  We will be happy to teach anyone.  We do not play for money.  Just for the fun of it.  Everyone is welcome.

Author Ria Bonneamie will visit the library on Friday, November 14, 3:00pm to read from her latest mystery novel Dual Issues. Dual Issues is a sequel to Bonneamie's first mystery, A Dual Affair, featuring unusual twin detectives solving multiple mysteries at once. The twins often reflect on the aspects of their gender duality. She is a dreamer, an artist and the intuitive one. He questions, rationalizes and keeps them both focused and safe. In Dual Issues they face internal conflicts, with the help of unconventional locals such as a seer and her young autistic companion looking for a Navajo two-spirit people. 

Bonneamie also wrote Quantum Pulse, seven arcane tales of the subconscious mind ranging from dreams to past lives, to a convergence of time and space, all conveying the ubiquitous aspect of any action past, present and future within oneself. 

Ria Bonneamie lived the first part of her life in Europe and Northern Africa. She studied art and psychology, and traveled extensively through much of the northern hemisphere. After settling in the USA, she worked as a mother, a chef, a rancher, a hypnotherapist and a visual and literary artist. 

For more information about library activities call (575) 538-3672 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The Silver City Public Library is located at 515 W. College Avenue and online at www.silvercitypubliclibrary.org.  

Julia Robinson, author of Early Jewish Merchants of Silver City, will lead her Lunch and Learn audience to learn how many features of our modern town came directly from the leadership of early Jewish merchants. 

Noon, Wednesday, November 19, in room ABC in the Resource Center on the WNMU campus at the corner of 12th and Kentucky Streets, Robinson's presentation will offer photographs from her most recent book.

Asked how she became interested in the Jewish pioneers, Robinson says, "I first wondered why I had heard of all the other 'outstanding' early Silver City residents, including Billy the Kid, the madams, and Rebecca Brewer, even the Chinese and Buffalo Soldiers who had stayed in the area, but had never heard of any early Jewish settlers.

Silver City Mayor Ken Ladner would like to invite your input, ideas and inspirations toward making our town even better than it already is. 

This month's "Monday Meeting With The Mayor" will be November 17th, in the J. Cloyd Miller Library Forum Area at Western New Mexico University anytime between 9:00AM to Noon.

All are invited to stop by anytime between 9:00 AM to Noon and share  your insights and ideas with Mayor Ladner.

Drinks and coffee will be furnished compliments of WNMU.