Local News Releases

What's up this week? The CCSO 50+ Event will feature table tennis on May 6, 2025, at Baptist Student Union, located at 909 W. College Av. The doors open at 4:30, and the event begins at 5 PM. Participants can register on-site, and spectators are encouraged to come and support the event! For more information, contact event manager Marylee Bell at 575-590-0057 or 575-590-2352

Events will feature corn hole May 10, 2025 Saturday at WNMU intramural gym 9 AM.

Participants will have the option to register on-site. Bring your friends. It going to be a great event and volunteers are welcome and supporters. For more details Fidel Quintana 575 590 1937 or 575 590 2352

Here's the lineup so far and more to join.

"Let the games begin"

Cornhole Players 2025

The Republicans of Grant County invite all who are interested to:

 Save the date for the next meeting: Tuesday June 3 - 6:00 PM 

 At the Santa Clara Armory 

 Bring a dish for the potluck

 Speaker:  Amy Barela - State Chairwoman

 Please note - No meeting in May

Sandra Cantrell with jacket mended by SWFAC member Lisa BanfieldThe Southwest Women's Fiber Arts Collective (SWFAC) in collaboration with the Future Forge Makerspace, is offering community members free mending of clothes and teaching how to mend clothes. This free program will be held at the Future Forge located at 307 East College Ave on Saturday, May 10, 2025 from 10 am to 12 noon. 

Did you know that 66% of unwanted clothes and textiles wind up in the landfill? Or that less than 15% are recycled and the rest, 19% are burned? Mending Our Ways is a program to help reduce clothing waste by teaching community members how to mend and offering free mending of clothes. On the 10th, community members can bring one item that needs a simple repair like replacing a button or a tear in a shirt or pants.

Mending clothes is one of the methods we can all do to keep good clothing out of our landfill. SWFAC members will be on hand to mend the items, and community members who learn how to mend with the SWFAC members, will receive a small sewing kit.

The Silver City Friends of the Library (FOL) is holding its May Book Sale on Saturday May 10, at the FOL Bookstore, 1510 Market Street, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. 

.Please note that a summer book sale will not be held, so mark your calendars for the first fall and winter book sale on Saturday September 13, 2025. 

Hardback and trade paperback books are priced at $1.00 each and paperbacks at $0.50 each. In some cases, books may be priced higher. Weather permitting, clearance item sales take place in the FOL parking lot where visitors can purchase a bag of books or other items (special bags are provided in the parking lot) at $2.00 per bag. There is no limit on the number of bags a visitor can buy. 

Marc Yaxley, Guitar Stylings; and Acoustic Singer-Songwriters Thea & the GreenMan, performing original acoustic music

Sunday, May 18, 2025, from 4-6pm

The Hearth Community Center, 1915 North Swan, Silver City, New Mexico

Marc Yaxley, virtuoso guitarist, has initiated a bimonthly concert series at The Hearth community center at 1915 North Swan. The event, called "Marc Yaxley and Friends," will feature other master musicians in a variety of genres and styles. He will share the stage on Sunday, May 18, 2025  from 4-6pm with Thea & the GreenMan. Admission at the door is $10; children 12 and under are free. CDs will be available for purchase. Photo 01-Marc Yaxley Playing Guitar

May 11, at 10:00 am, 3845 North Swan Street – "The Power of Breath"

"We often take breathing for granted, until we can't," said Heidi Ogas.

She will share how breath has helped her not just physically but also emotionally and spiritually. Ogas will lead the Fellowship in a few simple breathing exercises and, in honor of Mother's Day, a short, guided meditation about the one person who was part of our transitioned from inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid to taking our first breath of air.

Heidi Ogas has been volunteering at animal shelters since she was a teenager in Albuquerque. Now a resident of Silver City for almost 40 years, she has been with the High Desert Humane Society for 20 years. Recently retired after 35 years at James Hamilton Construction, she can spend more time with her own critters and helping those in need in our community.

This training will take a deep dive into what Narcan-or naloxone- is and is not. It will also cover what harm reduction is and how we save lives through compassion while reducing the spread of diseases.Come by May 10th from 1pm to 3pm at Fight Like A Girl's NEW location at 109 N BullardThere is very deep-rooted stigma surrounding this life-saving drug. Yes, it's a drug. But so are over-the-counter ibuprofen and medically prescribed steroids.Our goal is to work on reducing and eventually eliminating the stigma in order to continue saving lives and helping in the process of rehabilitation.