Gila News

For the weekend beginning a 4 p.m. Friday and ending at 8 a.m. Monday officers of the Silver City Police Department responded to 57 calls for service and had 252 self-initiated activity, issued 84 citations, and made 11 arrests including two juveniles and one for DWI.

The latest from fire officials has the White Peak fire burning near Cimarron, at 15 percent containment.

Meeting between Catron County US Forest Service, Glenwood Ranger District Pat Morrison, District Ranger June 11, 2013 Pat Morrison presented the "decision tree" flowchart for closing the Catwalk in response to predicted rainfall events to the Catron County representatives.

Favorable weather conditions on Saturday allowed firefighters to make headway on the Silver Fire in the Black range, which is now five percent contained and at 21,800 acres.

Situation Assessment Emory Pass/ Sawyer's Peak Black Range RD / Gila NF April 2009 Introduction Emory Pass and Sawyer's Peak mark one of the most scenic drives in New Mexico.

Extra humidity and a bit of rain are helping the hundreds of firefighters battling the Silver Fire raging in the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico.

During the rest of the Grant County Commission regular session business meeting on Thursday, June 13, commissioners approved the expenditure report of $780,152.41, dated June 11, 2013.

Firefighters in the Gila are doing everything they can to protect the town of Kingston and have been working through the night trying to determine the fire's grown since Thursday.

Voters will decide if they want to approve a quarter of a percent increase in gross receipts tax, which would be used to fund a variety of community projects, after the Grant County Commission approved a resolution at its Thursday meeting calling for a special mail-in election on the measure.

Silver City Public Library Summer Reading program, 10 a.m. Friday, making fossil prints .

The UNM Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the UNM Center for Native American Health are collaborating with communities and tribes to design, develop, and disseminate a system of regionalized pediatric emergency care in tribal and rural areas of New Mexico and the border regions of Arizona.

The Legislative Finance Committee at its meeting in Silver City at Western New Mexico University on June 12-14 began with welcomes from area political entities.

The Grant County Commission expects to put fire restrictions in place during its regular meeting Thursday after discussing the extreme fire conditions and the rapidly expanding Silver Fire in the Black Range on Tuesday.

During the week of June 3 through June 9, the Village of Santa Clara Police Department held two DWI projects and issued 18 citations.

Tanya Marquez is the first student at Western New Mexico University to earn a scholarship from the National Student Nurses' Association.

On May 23, 2013, HMS received notice that, after a two-year application process, it has become the first Teaching Health Center in New Mexico wherein HMS will welcome its first class of Family Medicine Residents for rural graduate medical education training in Silver City.

More than 2,000 firefighters pressed forward Saturday in battling two large northern New Mexico wildfires as smaller blazes popped up throughout the drought-stricken state stretching resources and sparking more warnings.

Students of Occupational Therapy Assistants rummage and bake sale, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Watts Building, Swan and Highway 180.

A sleeper fire from a lightning strike five days ago is under attack in the Manzano Wilderness as are five widely scattered fires newly reported in the Gila National Forest.

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