Silver City Daily Press and Independent

11/05/2025

UPDATED: Simon Wheaton-Smith will be the next mayor of the town of Silver City, having won 936 votes to 823 for Dale Lane, 490 for current District 4 Councilor Guadalupe Cano and 108 for newcomer Levi Emmett Timmons.

In the three-way contest for Silver City Town Council in District 2, incumbent Nick Prince won reelection with 318 votes to 260 for J. Andrew Housley and 121 votes cast for Eric Vreeland.
Victor Nañez will replace Cano as Silver City’s District 4 town councilor, picking up 238 votes to 220 for Jennifer Metzler Rider.

All unofficial results are in in the 2025 Consolidated Local Election in New Mexico, with school funding questions across Grant County being approved by voters, while a major street bond issue in Santa Clara was narrow. A major bond issue in the Cobre school district won approval, with 684 for and 5...

11/04/2025

Election volunteers Nevaeh Chavez and Connie Downard said that the Grant County Administration Center polling center had been busy since voting started at 7 a.m.
Polls are open until 7 tonight.

It’s Consolidated Local Election Day in New Mexico, and the Daily Press talked to election workers and voters about their Election Day experience in-person at the polls — which remain open until 7 p.m.. Election volunteers Nevaeh Chavez and Connie Downard said that the Grant County Administratio...

10/29/2025

The Silver City Daily Press and Independent hosted a public forum for candidates for the Nov. 4 consolidated local election for Cobre School Board in the Cobre High Performing Arts Center, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. The forum was moderated by Publisher Nick Seibel, with written questions from the virtual and in-person audience and from Reporter Marcela Johnson.

10/28/2025

The Silver City Daily Press and Independent hosted a public forum for candidates for the Nov. 4 consolidated local election for Silver City Town Council in District 2 at the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource Center, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. The forum was moderated by Publisher Nick Seibel, with written questions from the virtual and in-person audience and from Reporter Juno Ogle.

10/28/2025

Edit: Starting now!

We will be starting our District 2 candidate forum shortly at

10/27/2025

The Silver City Daily Press and Independent hosted a public forum for candidates for the Nov. 4 consolidated local election for Silver City mayor at the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource Center, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. The forum was moderated by Publisher Nick Seibel, with written questions from the virtual and in-person audience and from Reporter Juno Ogle.

10/25/2025

The Silver City mayor candidates forum will be starting momentarily at

10/15/2025

UPDATE: Due to only one candidate in attendance, we are canceling tonight’s forum.

We are getting ready for the Santa Clara trustees candidate forum at the Cobre High School performing arts center auditorium. Come join us in person or at http://dailypressforums.com. br

10/15/2025

The Silver City Daily Press and Independent hosted a public forum for candidates for the Nov. 4 consolidated local election for Silver City Town Council at the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource Center, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. The forum was moderated by Publisher Nick Seibel, with written questions from the virtual and in-person audience and from Reporter Juno Ogle.

10/15/2025

Our forum for Silver City town council district 4 is now underway at

09/04/2025

If you can’t make tonight’s Cobre-Anthony football game, Randall Allen is live-streaming the game for you now on Daily Press Sports LIVE:

08/26/2025

The staff and students now at the two schools will be consolidated into the district’s two remaining elementary schools next year, with all sixth-graders moving to La Plata Middle School.

Jose Barrios and Sixth Street elementary schools will close at the end of this school year, after a vote by the Silver Consolidated Schools Board of Education at its meeting Monday night. The vote was 4-0 to accept the recommendation of a committee that met this spring to study the consolidation fea...