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Schools sue state over five-day weeks
From Alamogordo to Wagon Mound, more than 50 school districts and charter schools have joined the New Mexico School Superintendents Association in taking legal action against a New Mexico Public Education Department rule that would essentially end four-day school weeks while adding days to many school calendars. The civil lawsuit...
Silver City's Ajia Richard has UTEP softball on verge of making postseason
Ajia Richard has spent most of her softball life as one of the youngest players on a team, the prodigy who played above her age group since she was a 4-year-old T-ball player. UTEP's star third baseman from Silver City, N.M., now a college junior, has inevitably grown out of that, and most importantly, she's brought her team with her.
Joe Saenz Makes Connections to the Land
Joe Saenz, council member for the Chiricahua Apache Nation, leads treks via Wolfhorse Outfitters. HAVING RETURNED TO HIS ANCESTRAL lands almost 30 years ago, Joe Saenz shows people southwest New Mexico as his ancestors experienced it. Representing the Chiricahua Apache, who he believes are the original inhabitants of the Gila Wilderness, Saenz spearheads the movement to bring respect to his tribe. He organizes the Red Paint Powwow, held at Western New Mexico University October 4–6, and teaches a new Chiricahua Apache Studies course offered at the college. Since 1998, Saenz has guided trips in the Gila and Aldo Leopold wildernesses as Wolfhorse Outfitters, where he shares traditional methods of connecting to the land.
Tour of the Gila 2024 returns for its 37th year in Silver City on Wednesday
The Tour of the Gila returns to Silver City for its 37th year starting Wednesday through this Sunday. Scott Brocato spoke with Jack Brennan, co-director of the Tour of the Gila, about the race and what roads will be impacted each day.
Discussion looks at building CDT connections
Community members and hikers gathered around a campfire Saturday night at the old Silver City Waterworks to discuss building on the sense of community that draws people along the Continental Divide Trail to Grant County in particular. The Waterworks opened to accommodate CDT hikers for Trail Days, with about 40...
Big weekend of events wraps Great Race, 420, trails and Earth
Organizers said Saturday was the biggest celebration yet in Silver City for Gila Earth Day and Continental Divide Trail Days, but are hopeful next year’s will be even bigger. The nearly 100 vendors in Gough Park were 30 more than at last year’s event, said Emily Cox, Gila Earth...
- Rebellion goes mainstream
According to multiple sources, the act of celebrating all things cannabis-related on April 20 may have started way back in 1990, at possibly the most predictable place one could imagine. During a Grateful Dead concert in Oakland, Calif., a reporter for the stoner magazine High Times was handed a flyer about a group planning to gather a large group to smoke at 4:20 p.m. on April 20. Once it was reported in the magazine, the idea soon spread all around the world.
Hurley council wants details on animal violations
Hurley town councilors asked their animal control officer to provide more detail in his reports before approving a work order for the animal shelter and a notice of intent to adopt changes in the town’s animal control ordinance during their regular meeting April 9. After Animal Control Officer William...
Big weekend of events set here
This weekend, no one should complain that there’s nothing to do in Silver City. Take your pick or enjoy a little bit of each — Earth Day and Continental Divide Trail Days, Western New Mexico University’s Great Race and Love Your Library Day will provide a variety of events through Sunday. Saturday is also 420 Day, on which several cannabis dispensaries are celebrating the use of the now-legal substance. The Daily Press will detail events for that celebration in Friday’s edition.
Graffiti event draws artists from across Southwest
When Justin Arrey sent out word to graffiti artists who he admired that he was organizing a graffiti jam in Silver City, he didn’t have high expectations. But it turned out Silver City was a big draw. “I’m not well known. I’m not known at all,” said Arrey, who...
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