Fort Bayard News

Beto Acosta, 11, a fifth-grader at Central Elementary School, shakes the hand of Michael Peralta, a Vietnam veteran, while handing him a proclamation thanking him for his service to his country Wednesday during the Veterans Day Ceremony at Fort Bayard National Cemetery.

Under clear, blue New Mexico skies, on a perfect fall day, more than 200 people turned out for the Veterans Day Ceremony at Fort Bayard National Cemetery on Wednesday morning.

It was Cynthia Ann Bettison's love of author Tony Hillerman that prompted her to bring Hillerman's daughter, Anne Hillerman, also an author, and photographer Don Strel to WNMU for a kickoff event to celebrate the university museum's 35th anniversary.

SILVER CITY A number of Veterans' Day events and ceremonies are scheduled around the county today and Wednesday to honor those who served.

Silver Consolidated Schools Board of Education work session and regular meetings scheduled for 5 and 7 p.m. Thursday have been rescheduled for the same times Oct.

Workers finish renovations in the historic Fort Bayard Theater earlier this week, just in time for a production of "Greater Tuna," which will run Friday and Saturday night.

Come meet your favorite player at "Meet the Mustangs" from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. today in the Intramural Gym, Western New Mexico campus.

Aglow October Celebration starts at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Silver City Woman's Club, 411 Silver Heights Blvd., with fellowship and refreshments.

Tommy Billy, a Navajo/Hopi, will sell Indian fry bread and Navajo tacos and burgers in the courtyard of The Silver City Museum from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

"Traditions Revisited," noon to 3 p.m. Friday, Silver City Museum, 312 W. Broadway.

Family and traditions have been a huge part of Grant County's history, and perhaps none is bigger than in the sport of hunting.

Top Stories for Monday, September 21st, 2009: DEDICATION MADE Fort Bayard Days, hosted by the Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society, were held Friday and Saturday on the former parade ground and in the New Deal Theater.

More than 1,000 people turned out last weekend for the 10th annual Fort Bayard Days.

Fort Bayard Days took place Friday and Saturday. The event is hosted each year by the Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society.

Old-fashioned games, crafts and dances, buffalo soldiers, military re-enactments, and Native American history are just a few of the activities that await visitors to this year's Fort Bayard Days, this weekend at Ford Bayard, located on the Trail of the Mountain Spirits Byway, six miles east of Silver City on State Road 180.

An event organized as "Honor Our Heroes' Day to remember those who died in the terrorist attacks Sept.

In all of American history, only two generals have held the rank General of the Armies, George Washington and John J. Pershing.

The first meeting of the fall season for the Silver City Woman's Club will be at11 a.m. Friday at the Woman's Club building on Silver Heights Boulevard.

Gila Classic Golf Tournament set for Sept. 12 Gila Regional Medical Center will hold the Gila Classic Golf Tournament at 7:30 p.m. on Sept.

For 13 years, I carried myself with elegance. Encased in a fur-covered, full-figured dog's body, I deigned to tolerate those who commented that I resembled a submarine, or remarked that I must have been the poster child for the grossly obese dog, or, when I was dressed in my summer "do," described me as a well-packed bratwurst with four ...