Grant County News

Border Area Mental Health Services has again been awarded a state contract to manage a unique program designed to assist adjudicated youth in Southwest New Mexico who are on probation status and at risk of further involvement with the state's juvenile justice system.

Winners of the People's Choice Awards for the Grant County Art Guild's Members Only Show have been announced.

Grant County Commissioners heard reports from county officials at the Tuesday, May 21, work session and the Thursday, May 23, regular session.

Grant County commissioners proclaimed June 1 as National Trails Day. Three people were on hand to receive and promote the day in Grant County.

Accident with property damage: A caller advised that he heard a crash but can not see anything at the very end of Harris Road.

There is a large population of hippies in New Mexico. They are alternative, creative and idealistic, ranging in age from 20 to 80, and all with a similar scent, philosophy and life experience.

Girl Scouts will hold their annual camp from June 4 through 6. This is open to all girls that will be entering the second grade in the fall and above.

The Gila Regional Medical Center Board of Trustees voted to keep the four senior leaders at the hospital after a lengthy executive session Tuesday following a public input session that largely supported the management team.

As of 10 p.m. Tuesday, several area crews are still fighting a more than 60-acre fire that is currently threatening two homes near the location of 2011's devastating Quail Ridge Fire.

The New Mexico State Library's Rural Bookmobile West is once again making its way through the Silver City area.

A blaze broke out in Grant County just south of Silver City Tuesday. The McKenney Road fire ignited just before 5 p.m. The fire forced the evacuation of three homes, but officials said residents should be able to return home tomorrow, if circumstances allow.

At the beginning of the Grant County Commission work session meeting on Tuesday, May 21, Chairman Brett Kasten asked for a moment of silence for those who lost their lives in the Oklahoma tornado and for the bicyclist who lost his life last week in the Sapillo Valley.

During the week of Monday, May 13 through Sunday, May 19, the Village of Santa Clara Police Department held two Operation DWI Patrols and issued 34 citations.

The defense attorney for Thomas Manning, the Albuquerque teen who allegedly shot and killed his father on a hunting trip to the Gila National Forest nearly three years ago, has asked to postpone the July trial because a witness critical to the defense will not be available.

Silver City's own Mimbres Region Arts Council was named as one of the recipients of the 2013 NM Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts: Governor Susana Martinez and the New Mexico Arts Commission have announced the seven artists and art supporters who will be recipients of the 2013 Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts.

Editor's Note: In case you have, as I have, been wondering exactly how Sole Community Provider funding works, here's an article explaining it.

The Grant County Community Health Council has hired Razanna Robinson-Thomas to coordinate a new grant-funded program focused on preventing prescription drug abuse and drinking among youth.

The Silver/Cliff school district met May 16, 2013, at the district office on Swan Street.

Artwork by elementary- and middle-school students in the Cobre School District is on display at the Chino Art Building on the Western New Mexico University campus.

Western New Mexico University Police Academy cadets conducted classes and qualifying this week at Butch Cassady's Pro Force Training Center.