Silver City News

This month it feels as though all the events of summer have been waiting for the end of summer, and they're all piling on in the waning days of the season.

The Silver City Food Co-Op , long a downtown destination for foods to prepare at home, now also offers "grab-and-go," ready to eat foods made in a new commercial kitchen.

Editor's note: We once again share a "rolling postcard" from the popular Silver City "chilegumbo" musical duo, Bayou Seco.

If you happened to be at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden last June, you may have noticed a woman who looked distinctly ethnic wearing faded Asic Gel sneakers and an equally bleached-out straw hat, with a brown-bag lunch peeping from her tote.

The couple will open Avesa Holistic Therapies Center on August 8 in Silver City, a venture that will bring Gunter out of retirement and bring to fruition for Morava a longtime dream to open a center after decades of concurrently studying and working out of her home office in natural and alternative healing.

Courtesy Photo The Mimbres Region Arts Council will host the dedicaiton of a youth mural at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Murray Ryan Building located at 201 N. Hudson St. in Silver City.

Head to where Billy the Kid's legend began in Lincoln, New Mexico. There will be food, arts and crafts and Living History Demonstrations.

SILVER CITY >>Silver Consolidated school board appointed a new member at a special school board session Thursday night.

SILVER CITY >> Two Silver City nonprofit organizations that offer support services to crime victims, families and children have been broken into, burglarized and vandalized within the last month.

The Silver City Daily Press was born June 25, 1935, when the Independent - our weekly predecessor - determined it was time to grow - along with Grant County, its people and its advertisers.

SILVER CITY >> A shooting on North Texas Street in Silver City last week led to one man being flown to Thomason Hospital in El Paso.

The Black Range Artists of southern New Mexico are hosting a multi media fine art show to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project and homeless veterans.

STATES, YOU CAN APPLY HERE, RIGHT AWAY. WATCHES WARNING AND ADVISORIES: We have a flash flood watch in Southern New Mexico, places including the Gila, Black Range, Dona Ana County, Silver City and more.

At the TEA Party Patriots Tuesday, July 29, 2014 meeting, the featured guests were Silver School Superintendent Lon Streib and Silver School Board President Trent Petty.

Incoming Western New Mexico University-Deming students and their parents are invited to attend a college orientation from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday at the Mimbres Valley Learning Center, 2300 E. Pine St. Staff and student orientation leaders from Silver City will be coming down to work with the WNMU-Deming staff in putting on this second annual ... (more)

This concert season, beginning Oct. 2, offers a more diverse mix of musicians to satisfy a variety of musical tastes.

SILVER CITY >> Maurine Laney, D, has announced her bid for re-election to the office of Magistrate Judge Division 1 in Silver City, according to a news release.

Courtesy photo Clay instructor Zoe Wolfe held a workshop for kids called CLAYplay: Exploring Our Wilderness Heritage Youth, Tuesday at the Silver City Public Library and at the Bayard Public Library.

The Southwest New Mexico Council of Governments, based in Silver City, New Mexico, received a 2014 Innovation Award from the National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation for the Borderless Soultions project.

Gila Regional Medical Center , located an hour north in Silver City, New Mexico.