Silver City News

A roadway advisory has been posted for NM-90 from mm 10 near Lordsburg to Silver City, NM.

SILVER CITY, N.M. >> Western New Mexico University will confer degrees and certificates to 219 students at the fall commencement ceremony scheduled for 2:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 13, in the Fine Arts Center Theater.

Courtesy Photo Mike Moutoux, New Mexico's Enchanting Cowboy, is scheduled to perform from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday at historic Morgan Hall, 109 E. Pine St. Brought to you by the Deming Performing Arts Theater.

Light Up a Life - Memorial Tree Lighting Ceremony: 5:30 to 6 p.m. today, Gila Regional Medical Center Front Canopy, 1313 E. 32nd St. Brown Bag: 12 to 1 p.m. today, Silver City Museum Annex, 302 W. Broadway.

Courtesy photo The holiday spirit was shared by participants and onlookers at last year's Kiwanis Gazebo Lighting and "Sing-Off."

Courtesy photo Jeff Goin and Kathleen Wigley of Single Socks join the Lunch Bunch at Aldo Leopold High School.

Tampering with a motor vehicle: A caller reported that her black F150 was keyed in the 1400 block of Little Walnut Road and she suspects it was her ex-boyfriend and they do have an active domestic violation order at this time.

By Susan Dunlap - Sun-News Volunteers, staff, and coordinators stand with the AIDS Memorial Quilts on display from 12 to 8 p.m. today at WNMU's Fine Arts Center.

John McCormick, general manager of the railroad, said the deceased are SWRR employees D.A. White, 38, of Silver City, and Steve Crose, 60, originally from Paulden, Ariz., and an unnamed female whose identity was being withheld According to an official source, the eight-car train carrying magnesite to Deming was traveling south at an abnormally high ... (more)

The 23rd annual Lighted Christmas Parade was held in downtown Silver City on Saturday evening.

SILVER CITY >>If you missed sitting on Santa Claus' knee, you still have plenty of chances to tell him what you want for Christmas and get photos, too.

The names of those killed in the locomotive derailment of a Southwestern Railroad train north of Bayard, which was hauling magnetite, a non-hazardous iron ore, have been released.

Sun-News Literacy Alive founder Sharleen Daugherty hands awards to 3rd and 2nd place prose winners, Tanah Lowe, and Diane Rothpletz, for their winning entries in the prose category of Literacy Alive's 2013 Prose, Poetry and Art Contest.

Sun-News Silver City artist Deb Hutchings shows off the second place winning art entry in Literacy Alive's contest, Catherine Lucero's "Monsoon Season."

Hamilton, R-Silver City, issued a statement Monday announcing her candidacy for a ninth 2-year term in the House of Representatives.

Hanukkah celebration: 5 to 8:30 p.m., Monday, Shevek & Co. Restaurant, 602 N Bullard St. Have dinner and spin dreidel for prizes.

SILVER CITY >> The sidewalks along Broadway and Bullard Streets were jam-packed with people Saturday night, waiting for Silver City's Lighted Christmas Parade to begin.

Courtesy Photo. Bella Bjornstad and Maddy La Rosa-Corliss sort and mark donations in preparation for the Food Pantry distribution on November 27. SILVER CITY >> The Grant County Community Food Pantry, a project of The Volunteer Center of Grant County, has seen a dramatic increase of 67 percent in the number of community members served over the past ... (more)

Editor's note: Our special holiday gift to readers is the return of Phillip "Pep" Parotti, whose autobiographical tales of growing up in Silver City have enlivened our pages many times.

Authorities are investigating the cause of a freight train derailment in southern New Mexico that killed three railroad employees when the train's locomotive plunged 40 feet down a ravine.