Silver City News

It's a good weekend to visit an outdoor market, see an art show or round up those odds and ends and sell them at a unique new community garage sale.

Cynthia Patterson hopes experience in nearly every level of courts in the state will help her make good on her goal of being elected to the Sixth Judicial District Court to deliver justice for all.

In Silver City, June starts off with rodeo. The annual Wild, Wild West Pro Rodeo continues through June 2 at the Southwest Horsemen's Arena.

Downtown Silver City, blighted too long by empty storefronts, will get a major boost from the long-awaited renovation and reopening of the Murray Hotel.

As promised last month, Silver City favorite Tre Rosat CafA© will open in June at its new location, 304 N. Bullard St.

Nolan Vermillion is on an adventure. Though he looks to be only six years old, he sits alone at a cafA© table on a street in Paris, dressed in trousers, suspenders and a crisp, white shirt.

Set back from the hodgepodge of residential styles on Little Walnut Road that offer everything from fake-adobe tract homes and doublewides to corpulent houses that bespeak an Embassy of Dallas lounges the sloping, picket-fenced garden of Ginna and Jack Heiden.

If your idea of a poet creates images of being straight-laced and library-quiet, of snow-white clouds and perfect roses, think again.

The new Little Toad Creek Inn and Tavern offers dinner, brunch, tavern food and, soon, its own beer and vodka.

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Smoke from the Whitewater Baldy Fire, now the largest in state history at more than 170,000 acres, fills the horizon as seen in this photo taken at 4 p.m. Tuesday about 15 miles west of Silver City on Highway 180 heading toward Glenwood, N.M. GLENWOOD, N.M. More than 200 people crammed into the Glenwood Community Center on Tuesday night in this ... (more)

Reiman Corp SW is scheduled to remove the existing Silva Creek Pedestrian Bridge on June 7. The new bridge will be open for pedestrian use by June 6. Wild, Wild West Pro Rodeo, Gates 6 p.m. today, SW Horseman s Park.

Democratic state Sen. Phil Griego fired back at his chief critic Friday, saying an ethics complaint against him is groundless.

A new smoke influx from what's expected to become the state's largest-ever wildfire is prompting officials to repeat health warnings to southern New Mexicans.

Thousands of people flocked to Silver City this weekend for the Silver City Blues Festival, but the crowd was here for music and not for trouble, as seen by the lack of arrests or trouble associated with the festival.

Memorial Day services were held Monday at the Fort Bayard National Ceremony. Above, Larry Himes, center, U.S. Marine Corps from 1958 to 1962, of Silver City, and Bill DeLaney, U. S. Marine Corps from 1999 to 2007 and U.S. Army Reserve from 2007 to the present, of Deming, and his wife, Jennifer DeLaney, plant American flags on graves at Fort Bayard ... (more)

The Silver City Daily Press was born June 25, 1935, when the Independent - our weekly predecessor - determined it was time to grow - along with Grant County, its people and its advertisers.

The Silver City Museum presents Don Turner who will speak about "Grant County Rodeo and Rodeo Events, at noon June 7 at the Museum Annex , 302 W. Broadway St.

Theatre Group New Mexico and the Expressive Arts Department of WNMU are teaming to present a summer theater camp for young people ages 6-18. YES! will be from 9 a.m. to noon, June 11-15. The camp will include workshops in acting and improv, set building, maskmaking, puppetry, dance, lighting and sound, playwriting and more.

Three Democratic candidates for district attorney of the Sixth Judicial District will face off next week during the June 5 primary election.