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- Grant County POW’s remains return home after 81 years
Of the more than 1,800 New Mexico men who fought on the Philippines’ Bataan Peninsula in World War II and were taken prisoner, only about 900 made it home. On Wednesday — 81 years after he died in a prisoner of war camp — one more of those soldiers returned to Grant County.
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...
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...
- 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.
Silver puts numbers to tax proposal
The Silver Consolidated Schools Board of Education again beat the drum for an increase in property taxes to get new schools built — this time in Cliff, which is among the district’s most urgent facility needs. “Cliff is in need of a new school, as we all know,”...
Celebrate the Gila Wilderness 100th anniversary at the historic Mogollon Cemetery
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Town of Mogollon is getting ready to celebrate 100 years of the Gila Wilderness with a special event at the historic Mogollon Cemetery on May 25, 2024. The event is limited to 70 participants so anyone planning to attend is encouraged to RSVP soon by reaching out to Cordelia Rose by phone […]
- Disc golf scene draws competitors to county
Saturday, the Historic Fort Bayard Disc Golf Course will play host to its fifth tournament since Father’s Day of last year, with the Land of Enchantment Series — Fort Bayard Qualifier. There will be a variety of professional and amateur-level players aiming at the inaugural event, which is...
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