Gila News

The Gila /San Francisco Water Commission held a short meeting in Deming on Tuesday, June 18. The group lacked a quorum by two voting members, so everything was done by consensus.

Magic Show, 10 a.m. Thursday, Silver City Public Library, 515 College Ave. Jamie O'Hara, The Magic Guy will be visiting the library to present stories, jokes, and of course amazing illusions.

An upper level trough approaching the Four Corners area this afternoon will bring stronger southwest winds aloft across Central and Northwestern New Mexico this afternoon, including northern portions of the Gila Region over Catron County.

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The Silver City Chapter of the Green Chamber will host a Silver City Solar Tour at 1 p.m. Saturday, starting at the Murray Ryan Visitors Center, 201 N. Hudson St. and ending at Energy Ideal at the corner of Bullard and College.

A hot and dry air mass with stronger winds and lower relative humidity has settled over the Silver Fire resulting in an increase in fire behavior.

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.