Gila Regional Medical Center will soon begin preparing for installation of its new MRI scanner, Associate Administrator Matthew Stevens told the county-owned hospital’s board of trustees at their regular meeting Wednesday. Administrators also reported that the hospital was recognized for having a zero rate for a certain type of hospital-acquired infection, and will honor one of its own later this month. In 2024, U.S. Sens. Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich secured $1 million in federal funding f

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff The 10th annual Southwest Print Fiesta helped bring a large crowd to downtown Silver City over the weekend, including some “bad” printers. At least that’s what featured artist Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. called his genre of letterpress printing. Kennedy conducted a drop-in workshop Sunday at Power and Light Press titled “Intro to Bad Printing,” where visitors could make a commemorative poster of layered ink and bold letters. “It’s just an introduction to letterpress prin

The Silver City Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously endorsed the town of Silver City imposing a yearlong moratorium on data centers during its meeting Tuesday. Community Development Director Susan Mittelstadt emphasized that at this point, no applications for data centers have actually been submitted to the town. Commissioners also acknowledged that a data center wouldn’t likely be built in town, but said the moratorium would send a message. Commissioner John Balas said information around

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff The 10th year of the Southwest Print Fiesta opens this evening, and this edition of the event will bring some free, interactive workshops for the public to help celebrate its milestone. Some long-standing elements and favorites will return to the festival as well, such as workshops for artists, the Printers’ Market and steamroller printing. This evening’s kickoff for the fiesta will be from 5 to 7 p.m. at Open Space Brewing in Santa Clara, with events continuing Fr

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff After trading barbs about campaign finance and voting records during public forums on back-to-back nights, the candidates for District 39 in the New Mexico House of Representatives ended on a positive note, with mutual praise and a hug. The Daily Press conducted its public forum Friday evening with the candidates, incumbent Republican state Rep. Luis Terrazas and Democratic challenger Raul Turrieta, the chief deputy in the Grant County Assessor’s Office. Both had a

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff The Silver Consolidated School District will likely continue with its plans to move its athletic fields to the middle school and high school, but the superintendent said there is potential for continued partnerships to make use of the Ben Altamirano Sports Complex for at least a few more years. Superintendent William Hawkins spoke about the field proposal during the Board of Education’s work session prior to its regular meeting Monday night. His comments came durin

The Silver City Police Department is investigating a man found with a gun inside the Silver Scholars Academy early Tuesday morning. No arrest was made, but the department is looking into possible criminal charges, Capt. Antonio Carrillo told the Daily Press. Silver Schools Superintendent William Hawkins told the Daily Press the district’s security system, ZeroEyes, detected a firearm inside the building around 5:30 a.m. He said a custodian’s husband accompanied her into the building, and at some

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff Cobre Consolidated Schools will ask the city of Bayard for a do-over on its athletic facilities leases. At a special meeting on Sept. 14, the board voted to lease its golf course to the city, with the city taking over maintenance. Superintendent Verenice Gutierrez based that agreement on a 2023 lease between the district and city for the baseball field near Bayard Elementary School. Board member Gilbert Guadiana made the motion to approve the two-page lease, pendin

A gathering Saturday in Gough Park was small but celebrated big steps as part of National Recovery Month. Every September, organizations such as the Recovery Management Center aim to bring awareness to mental health and substance abuse treatment and recovery, said Michelle Warnack, a counselor with the center. The celebration in the park offered music, food trucks, a bounce house, carnival games, cotton candy, and free T-shirts and other giveaways. Warnack said the public often doesn’t know the

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff The Grant County Fair will get underway this week as scheduled, but officials will take extra precautions with animals due to a case of New World screwworm that was detected last week in Grant County. One Grant County veterinarian advised Monday that while animal owners should be aware of the potential for an infestation, there’s no cause for panic. A single infestation of the parasitic fly larvae in a horse was confirmed by the state Department of Agriculture on T

Area elected officials are voicing their support for a moratorium on data centers in Grant County. Ever since a public notice for an intent to apply for an air quality permit for a data center near Hachita was published in the Daily Press on Aug. 27, members of the public have voiced concerns about its potential water use, air pollution and just who wants to develop it here, but not much information has been made available. Gila Resources Information Project staff traced what information there w

A plate on the front of the truck shows the name Holeman gave the little red truck, Chile-P.

For the second time this week, the Silver City Police Department asked for the public’s help in locating a suspect considered to be armed and dangerous. Police issued an arrest warrant for Joshua Villa in connection with a homicide Wednesday evening — which occurred in the same block where a woman was stabbed Sunday evening. Villa, 37, was apprehended at 3:10 p.m. Friday in Bayard, according to a press release from Silver City police. He was being held at the Grant County Detention Center on Fri

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff James Holeman has had fun vehicles before, but nothing like his latest purchase. The little red Japanese kei truck he purchased a couple of months ago is fun to drive, he said, but it’s also so practical that it’s become his daily driver. Kei cars and trucks are a classification of the smallest road-legal vehicles in Japan, no more than about 11 feet long and under 5 feet wide, no taller than about 6-and-a-half feet and a maximum engine size of 660cc. Despite the l

Silver Consolidated Schools operated under shelter-in-place rules Thursday after a threat was reported using the district’s anonymous reporting app. Superintendent William Hawkins told the Daily Press late Friday afternoon that he had not received an update from the Silver City Police Department — which was also searching for a murder suspect Thursday — on whether its investigation showed the threat to be credible, but the shelter-in-place and other measures were used as a precaution. Hawkins to

A case of screwworm has been confirmed in a horse in Grant County, and the state is conducting surveillance around the location, according to a press release issued Friday afternoon by the New Mexico Department of Agriculture. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s website dedicated to screwworm shows the Grant County case was confirmed on Thursday. The release, with a dateline of Mimbres, said an infested zone has been established with a minimum of a 12.4 mile radius from the horse’s location. Fr

How does a nonpolitical organization help keep the public informed about political issues without getting political? The Western Institute of Lifelong Learning decided the solution was not a debate, but an event presenting the differing — and sometimes nondiffering — perspectives on certain issues held by representatives of Grant County’s major political parties. “Party Perspectives: A Conversation on the Issues” was presented Wednesday in Western New Mexico University’s Besse-Forward Global Res

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff The finish line saw a scramble for the top men’s spot as well as some slower finishes at Saturday’s second Silver Lode Scramble burro race in Silver City. The top men’s teams in the 6-mile race sprinted side-by-side to the finish line in front of the Silver City Museum, vying not just for the day’s win but also the top spot in the New Mexico Pack Burros four-race series. Martin Sandoval of Leadville, Colorado, and his burro, Buttercup, beat out Kevin McNamee and Po