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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.

Western New Mexico University Museum and the Francis McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art will be the joint venues for Neo-Mimbreno 2014, a Silver City Clay Festival exhibition, on Saturday.

SILVER CITY >>A burglary-in-progress was stopped and the alleged burglar was apprehended by Silver City Police officers with help from the Grant County Sheriff's Department, according to a Silver City police report.

Request officer: A caller advised her 17-year-old daughter sent her some disturbing text messages in the 1600 block of Harris Road.

SILVER CITY >>A burglary-in-progress was stopped and the alleged burglar was apprehended by Silver City Police officers with help from the Grant County Sheriff's Department, according to a Silver City police report.

Three students work in the garden at the Guadalupe Montessori School in Silver City in mid-July.

Students get ready to start the third grade with their teacher at Central Elementary School in Santa Clara in July.

That lame excuse is getting old each day, thanks in part to new leadership from three entities that have a chance to create growth and prosperity in Deming and Luna County.

SILVER CITY >> Friday's Colorado River Day at Gough Park was an afternoon-long event with speakers, including state Representative Rudy Martinez, D-Bayard, and Bishop Oscar CantAo of the Las Cruces Catholic Diocese.

Courtesy photo Silver High School students Maryssa Young and Jazmin Saenz were student ambassadors to Europe this summer, along with other teens from New Mexico, Texas and Tennessee.

The Silver City Public Library's Lillian Galloway teaches Roselynn Brown, Kiarah Delgado, Ginger Gasparich, Cyrus Aaron-Force and Alexander Waters about the linear meaning of topographic maps at the Silver City Museum's Gila Wild program at the library on Thursday.

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 >>Today marks the 93rd anniversary of the day the Colorado River was officially renamed from the "Grand" to the "Colorado," according to a news release.