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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.
- 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.
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...
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...
Shakespeare on the Big Ditch in Silver City
TheActrix Studio LLC is holding an open call for the 2nd DitchSpeare classical street theatre event this Friday and Saturday. Ditchspeare received great acclaim when it premiered last year, prompting organizers to expand the experiment to an annual event. Friday, April 19, evening auditions will be from 5-6:30 p.m. at El Sol Theatre, 406 N Bullard, Silver City. Saturday, April 20, afternoon auditions 2-3:30 p.m. in the Museum Courtyard, 312 W Broadway St, Silver City.
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...
WNMU workshop pairs vets, music pros for songwriting
With butterflies in their stomachs and shaking voices — but plenty of support from those around them — nine area residents took the stage at Western New Mexico University’s Light Hall Theater on Saturday to give voice to stories they had discovered through a daylong songwriting workshop.
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.
Find These Plants in the Gila
Look out for these plants intricately connected to life in the Gila. THE GILA NATIONAL FOREST lists 51 plant species and 16 insect species as being of “management concern,” meaning they rely on National Forest habitats for their survival or are potentially affected by Forest Service management activities. Silver City residents Don and Wendy Graves, who serve as co-presidents of the Native Plant Society of New Mexico, highlight some common plants that are critical to the ecosystem.
TWU softball secures win over Western New Mexico to take series
SILVER CITY, N.M. — The Texas Woman's softball team took the victory in Game 3 against Western New Mexico with four home runs in a gripping showdown that ended 6-5 on Saturday. After going 1-1 in the doubleheader Friday, TWU (23-27, 12-8) took the series home after winning Game...
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,”...
- Biology professor translates life experience from lab to adventure
The Western New Mexico University campus office of Manda Jost seems reflective of the mind of the biology professor who occupies it. There are specimens floating in glass jars on the desk, 19th-century natural history texts on the bookshelves and curious and colorful works of art that reflect diverse, wide-ranging travels.
Santa Clara residents, businesses to see utility bill rate increase July 1
Residents and businesses in Santa Clara will pay a little more on their village utility bills starting July 1. The village Board of Trustees approved an increase in water, sewer and trash collection rates that will amount to a 5 percent across-the-board hike. That will amount, on average, to about $2.60 per month per household, Village Administrator Sheila Hudman said.
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