Happy New Year's Day! In many countries the New Year begins on January 1st. However, this wasn’t always the case. In fact, for centuries, other dates marked the start of the calendar, including March 25th and December 25th. So how did January 1 become New Year’s Day? The earliest known record of a New Year festival dates from about 2000 [...]

The Commons in Silver City will be having a free “Friday Night Dinner” this evening, December 29th from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. They will be having Old Fashioned Goulash along with music, fun and more. All community members are welcome to attend.  The Animas Public School District (APS) has received $40,000 as part of The New Mexico Outdoor Recreation [...]

The Grant County Administrative Offices is letting community members know that they will be closed tomorrow, December 29th and January 1st for the New Year Holiday. Those with questions or concerns pertaining to roads and law enforcement are to call Grant County Regional Dispatch at 575-388-8840. During the Gila Regional Medical Center Board of Trustees meeting, three GRMC employees received [...]

The New Mexico Department of Tourism’s Clean and Beautiful Grant program recently donated $30,520 in funds to help beautify the Town of Silver City. The awarded funds are set to be used for litter clean-up, waste reduction, youth training initiatives and landscaping in the Big Ditch area as well as at the Waterworks Building on Little Walnut Road. The funds [...]

The Silver City MainStreet Project has partnered up with First American Bank in Silver City to continue the “Downtown Gift Certificate Program”.  The program helps bring shoppers and dollars into over 130 Downtown Silver City businesses and is one of the best ways to support locally owned businesses. For every dollar spent at a local business, 67 cents or more [...]

Merry Christmas to all of our listeners!  As we take time to celebrate this day with our families and friends, let us remember how Christmas first came to be. Christmas as a holiday most likely began sometime around the 4th century when Pope Julius the 1st selected December 25th as the official date when Christians would celebrate the birth of [...]

The Freeport-McMoRan Foundation has awarded $450,000 to Grant County as part of $3 million awarded to 55 projects in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico and Texas through its Community and Social Investment Fund process. The Freeport-McMoRan Foundation works with a range of committed partners throughout the investment process and has an ongoing partnership with True Impact, allowing organizations to forecast [...]

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham recently announced that healthcare organizations in Luna, Grant and Hidalgo counties will be receiving funding through the Rural Health Care Delivery Fund that was created earlier this year. Some of the organizations receiving the funding will be the Ben Archer Health Center in Luna County, the Mimbres Memorial Hospital in Luna and Hidalgo County and Southwest [...]

The Silver Consolidated School District and The Commons are partnering together to provide Christmas food boxes to those in need. They will be distributing the boxes tomorrow, December 20th at 12:30 p.m. at the Silver Schools Administration Building at 2810 North Swan Street. This will be on a first come, first serve basis.  The Grant County Community Foundation announced that [...]