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Silver City officials gathered virtually for their last regular meeting of the year last Tuesday, with James Reynolds sitting in as the town’s legal counsel. Longtime town attorney Robert Scavron retired earlier this year.
Revenues and crime are both on the rise in the town of Silver City, and 10 more local businesses were awarded federal CARES Act cash to help them get through the pandemic, town councilors learned last week.
Raises all ’round
Due to this year’s unexpected growth in gross receipts tax revenue the primary revenue source for town government and an additional windfall increase in utilities revenues, Silver City will be doling out raises to both its union and non-union employees, including Town Manager Alex Brown, who announced that he wanted to reinstate pay increases in the budget during last Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Town Council. The council, which met remotely via the GoToMeeting app, unanimously approved a r
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that inspires so much emotion and so many people for so long a period of time. we have team coverage of the historic anniversary and we want to start with stephanie trong. hello. reporter: hi, diane, i tried to dress in style in honor of the bridge. this is as close to international orange as i could get. we had people trying to do the same out here. lighter crowds than i think was anticipated, but we still have much of the day and night to go. a lot of people came out to enjoy what has been a gorgeous day. now, out by the crissy field, a little bit of a walk from here, there s been live music and dance groups since the morning all day running from 11:00 in the morning to 11:00 tonight, people walking and biking around and living it up. we caught up with the family that came up from the vanden berg air force base, a special memorial day weekend here in the city. it s really great. the crowds have been fairly light and there s something to do all along the way. we ve just
meanwhile, the white house is standing by the secret service director. susan mcginnis is in washington with more. good morning. reporter: michelle, good morning. as more information comes to light about what really happened that night in cartagena, it does look like more firings are going to happen fast. meanwhile, members of congress are now speaking out. more secret service agents involved in the prostitution scandal in colombia could resign or be fired as early as today. according to new york congressman peter king. director sullivan said as soon as he believes he has sufficient evidence to require someone to leave, he will act. reporter: three agents have already been forced out. supervisor david cheney retired, greg stokes who ran the canine unit was removed with cause but can appeal, a third agent resigned and eight more are under investigation. they re accused of hiring prostitutes and bringing them back to their hotel in cartagena last week. they were in columbi