The Upper Gila Watershed Alliance is offering an overnight fun-filled camping adventure for children ages 13 to 18 years old. Participants will get the opportunity to connect with the outdoors through a variety of activities including fire by friction, basketry, knife skills, archery, hiking and much more. The camp will take place from July 15th to July 18th near the [...]

Are you looking for a new summer project? Submissions are now open for the First Annual Silver City Community Film Festival that is set to take place in October. Grant County, Deming and Lordsburg community members are welcome to participate and show off their hidden talents. Filmmakers of all ages are encouraged to get creative by telling a story, interviewing [...]

The Town of Hurley Council approved the intent to adopt ordinance number 4-S during their Town Hall meeting that took place June 18th. The ordinance provides for increasing rates to be charged for sanitary sewer services, garbage collection, landfill fees and will increase rates $6.78 plus gross receipts tax. The ordinance will be discussed further at the next Town Hall [...]

New Mexico State Representative Luis Terrazas will be hosting a community wildfire preparedness meeting in coordination with local, state and federal partners in wildfire management and prevention tomorrow, July 9th at 6:00 p.m. at the Grant County Business and Conference Center. The purpose of the meeting is to have a conversation about wildfire threat, how the community can work together [...]

The Gila National Forest, Wilderness Ranger District is preparing to implement the 74-acre New Mexico Highway 35 Bravo prescribed fire project to burn slash piles beginning July 8th. The project will occur in stages and will be located along the north side of New Mexico Highway 35, west of Forest Road 150 and east of Lincoln Canyon in Grant County. [...]

Happy Independence Day! The Fourth of July, also known as Independence Day or July 4th—has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1941, but the tradition of Independence Day celebrations goes back to the 18th century and the American Revolution. On July 2nd, 1776, the Continental Congress voted in favor of independence, and two days later delegates from [...]