Silver City councilors approved a notice of intent to adopt an ordinance that will formally remove the last of the town’s independent election laws from the books, replacing them with verbiage that conforms with the state’s 2018 Local Election Act, and also revisited the town’s mask mandate at their regular meeting Tuesday night. Silver City proudly ran its own elections until this year, when the departure of longtime Town Clerk …
As a result of a formal public records request, the Daily Press has learned the names of the remaining four individuals who submitted applications seeking appointment to the District 1 seat left vacant when former Councilor Cynthia Ann Bettison resigned in September, citing health reasons. Silver Citians will have to wait until the Nov. 9 meeting of the council to learn the identity of Mayor Ken Ladner’s second choice from …
Two-thirds of the sitting Silver City Town Council rejected Mayor Ken Ladner’s proposed appointment of Frances Vasquez to the vacant District 1 council seat at Tuesday night’s regular meeting. The seat was left vacant when Councilor Cynthia Ann Bettison stepped down Sept. 14 due to health reasons. Although the appointment, legally speaking, is entirely under the mayor’s purview, Ladner had said he would only choose Bettison’s replacement with the consent …
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