Silver City Daily Press and Independent

12/07/2024

From our sister newspaper, the Deming Headlight:

Deming Police Officer Jesus Lopez Jr. was arrested outside Deming police headquarters on Thursday by officers with the New Mexico State Police. Although charges have not been released to the Deming Headlight by either Deming police or the State Police, KRQE News 13 reported Friday that the charges a...

11/06/2024

UPDATED: With all voting centers reporting, Republicans saw a banner night in the historically Democratic county, sweeping contested local races.

Polls have closed in Grant County for the 2024 General Election, and unofficial results have been tabulated in the Grant County Clerk’s Office. With all voting centers reporting, Republicans saw a banner night in the historically Democratic county, sweeping contested local races. With a total of 1...

10/30/2024

The Daily Press hosts a candidate forum for District 28 in the New Mexico Senate, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in the auditorium of the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource Center.

10/30/2024

The Daily Press hosts a candidate forum for District 39 in the New Mexico House of Representatives, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in the auditorium of the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource Center.

10/25/2024

The Daily Press hosts a candidate forum for district attorney in the Sixth Judicial District, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in the auditorium of the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource Center.

10/23/2024

The Daily Press hosts a candidate forum for the District 4 seat on the Grant County Commission, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, in the auditorium of the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource Center.

10/05/2024

Just got word from Sheriff Villanueva that she has been found.

The Grant County Sheriff’s Office is seeking public assistance in locating a woman last seen north of Pinos Altos. According to a Friday press release from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, Melissa Dawn Reed, 50, was last seen between 2 and 3 p.m. Thursday in the Meadow Creek area off N.M. 15. ...

09/24/2024

Fire Chief Milo Lambert spoke to about two dozen residents in the park at 10 a.m., telling them that based on what he knew of the New Mexico State Police investigation into Jamal Green’s disappearance, there wasn’t much more that could be done locally to find Green. As he was wrapping up his statements at about 10:20 a.m., a woman stepped forward and got his attention.

“Somebody just said he’s been found,” she said.

Relief rushed through a crowd in Gough Park this morning with word that a Silver City firefighter reported missing for two days was alive. Fire Chief Milo Lambert spoke to about two dozen residents in the park at 10 a.m., telling them that based on what he knew of the New Mexico State Police investi...

09/23/2024

08/31/2024

A post this week on Facebook asked about the history of the building that was the longtime location of Lifequest — and is the soon-to-be home of the Silver City Food Co-op. As it turns out, after renovation is complete, the building on Pope Street at College Avenue will be returning to its roots as a grocery store.

It was built in 1940 as the new home of Silver City’s Safeway store, and opened for business on Friday, Nov. 15, 1940. The ad here is from the Nov. 14 edition of the Daily Press, which notably — probably because of the large number of locally owned grocers who were also advertisers — didn’t organize the usual big editorial production which generally accompanied new business openings at the time.

That weekend, would-be thieves broke the front door lock of the new supermarket and attempted— and failed — to steal the store safe. They have gave up and left, failing even to raid cash registers stocked with change. The sheriff and town marshal determined the criminals to be “amateurs.”

08/23/2024

Tommy Valdez, 44, was arrested in Las Cruces by U.S. Marshals, according to a press release from the Silver City Police Department. The department contacted the federal agency after determining Valdez had fled Silver City for Las Cruces after the shooting.

The suspect in a Tuesday afternoon shooting that injured a woman and put the Western New Mexico University campus under a short shelter-in-place order was arrested Wednesday in Las Cruces. Tommy Valdez, 44, was arrested in Las Cruces by U.S. Marshals, according to a press release from the Silver Cit...

08/21/2024

The failure of the capital bond, which would have been a continuation of an existing bond and would not have raised property taxes, led Silver Schools Board of Education President Ashley Montenegro to speculate that some voters had not seen that the front and back of the ballot each contained a separate question.

A $24 million general obligation bond for the Silver Consolidated School District was approved by voters, but the capital improvements bond failed by a narrow margin, according to unofficial results announced Tuesday night by the Grant County Clerk’s Office. The GO bond received a total of 2,134 v...

08/20/2024

UPDATED: At 4:47 p.m., Silver City Police Chief Freddie Portillo told the Daily Press that a female had been shot in the leg in the incident, and the shooter had not yet been apprehended by police. The chief said, however, that it was “not considered an active shooter incident.”

Students and staff at the Western New Mexico University main campus were briefly asked to shelter in place Tuesday afternoon after an apparent shooting near the intersection of 13th and Gordon streets, two blocks north of the Harlan Hall science building on campus. At 4:47 p.m., Silver City Police C...

08/03/2024

Jason, 6, still has a long road ahead of him as he recovers from being shot Jan. 12 while sitting in a car with his family in Hurley.
“He is blind in his right eye and the right side of his body is impaired, so that’s why he’s in the wheelchair,” his mother, Mariah Palomarez, told the Daily Press on Wednesday.

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff It’s been a long journey back home for Jason Acosta and his family, but on Tuesday, they drove the final few miles with an es**rt from area fire departments and law enforcement agencies. Jason, 6, still has a long road ahead of him as he recovers from being shot Jan....

08/03/2024

If you are looking to keep your money in the community, there are a number of small clothing stores that are honoring the tax free weekend, including Circle Heart Western Wear, American Blues and Silver Threads.

This weekend, New Mexico shoppers can score some back-to-school deals with the state’s annual tax-free weekend. According to a press release from the office of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, gross receipts taxes in New Mexico range from 4.875 percent to more than 9 percent, with Silver City’s rate...

06/15/2024

From the N.M. Department of Transportation at 7:40 p.m. Friday, June 14:

ROAD CLOSURE- Silver City Area
N.M. 15 northbound and southbound from milepost 10 to milepost 25, all lanes are closed due to road maintenance. Please be advised, this will be an overnight closure. Motorists are asked to seek an alternate route.