Bayard city councilors discussed restricting fireworks during a public hearing Monday evening, and talked wastewater project funding during their subsequent regular meeting. Following the hearing, councilors approved an ordinance that would restrict firework usage and sales to only the fireworks that the state mandates. This ordinance would expand on the fire danger proclamation made at the May 9 meeting. “It’s not the issue about us selling them, it’s the issue …
The first of three Daily Press candidate forums for this year’s June primary elections was held at Western New Mexico University’s Besse-Forward Global Resource Center on Thursday evening, where incumbent District 2 Grant County Commissioner Javier Salas was joined by his opponent in the Democratic primary, Eloy Medina. Daily Press Publisher Nickolas Seibel posed questions from the newspaper’s reporters and from the audience to each candidate, who was allotted two …
The Daily Press will once again hold a series of candidate forums in advance of the June 7 major party primary election, marking the ninth year that the newspaper has hosted the events. The forums, which will all take place in the auditorium of Western New Mexico University’s Besse-Forward Global Resource Center, will pose written questions from audience members and the newspaper’s reporters to candidates in competitive races. Candidates will …