Silver City Daily Digest Friday, September 18, 2026
Ty's Take
The stabbing arrest and the roadless rule hearing landed on the same news cycle, which tells you something about Silver City right now. We're a town caught between the old trouble and the new trouble, between crime that shows up sudden and dark in a Sunday night, and the kind of grinding conflict that brings 120 people out to argue about what happens on public land. The flood watch adds another layer, water threatening to come down hard while we're all trying to figure out who we are and what we want this place to become. Some days the news just stacks up like that, and you realize you can't separate any of it out into neat piles. It's all Silver City.
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Silver City Daily Press
Cobre OKs lease of golf course to city of Bayard
The Cobre Consolidated Schools Board of Education approved leasing its golf course to the city of Bayard on Monday, with the proposal now heading to the Bayard City Council for consideration. Superintendent Verenice Gutierrez proposed the lease to address maintenance costs affecting the district's...
Arrest made in Sunday stabbing
Silver City police arrested Dominick Frank Duran on Wednesday morning in connection with a stabbing that occurred Sunday at 223 S. Corbin St. The woman was found stabbed in the chest in a vehicle at the Snappy Mart parking lot at Broadway and Hudson Street and was transported to a hospital in El...
Political party leaders contrast visions at forum
Grant County Republican and Democratic party leaders presented contrasting perspectives on local issues at a forum hosted by the Western Institute of Lifelong Learning at Western New Mexico University's Besse-Forward Global Resource Center on Wednesday. Vice chairs Jim Gosney and George Carr...
‘People’s Public Hearing’ sees 120+ Roadless Rule supporters
More than 120 Grant County residents attended a People's Public Hearing on Tuesday at Western New Mexico University to oppose the Trump administration's plan to rescind the Forest Service's Roadless Rule. The hearing, organized by conservation groups including Heart of the Gila and The Wilderness...
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Grant County Beat
Andrew Calanchi is held without bond for Attempted Murder
Andrew Phillip Calanchi, 40, is being held without bond in Luna County after being charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and tampering with evidence. Sixth Judicial District Attorney Norman R. Wheeler announced the charges against Calanchi on September...
Flood watch today through the night 0917-091825
A flood watch is in effect from noon through late tonight for portions of south central and southwest New Mexico, including Grant County communities such as Silver City, Hurley, Kingston, and Faywood. Excessive rainfall is possible in the Southern Gila Foothills, Mimbres Valley, and Black Range...
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