(Press Staff Photo by Geoffrey Plant)
Three-year-old Mila Sprowl shouts “Ya! Ya!” while playing on the black stallion spring rider in Penny Park on Saturday as her dad, Mike Sprowl, looks on.
After being closed since last March due to the coronavirus pandemic, as of today, Silver City’s beloved playground, Penny Park, is finally open to the public again, according to Town Manager Alex Brown.
“We waited until the schools got the green light for [limited] in-person learning,” Brown said, adding that when town officials made the decision last May to reopen municipal parks and outdoor recreation sites like Fox Field and Scott Park Golf Links in accordance with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s easing of coronavirus restrictions, they opted to keep playgrounds off-limits.
(Press File Photo by Geoffrey Plant)
Lt. Gov. Howie Morales, Silver City Mayor Ken Ladner and others are seen inside the N.M. Senate chamber as Darlene Chavez, president of the Associated Students of Western New Mexico University sings the national anthem during the opening ceremony for Grant County Day at the New Mexico Legislature last year. The 2021 version will take place via Zoom.
Wednesday is Grant County Day at the New Mexico Legislature, and despite pandemic rules that bar all but essential staff, credentialed media, and, of course, legislators themselves from the Roundhouse, local government officials and representatives from a range of organizations here will still be pitching the priority needs of the region to legislators virtually.
Pandemic restrictions ease as county turns ‘yellow’ Written by Geoffrey Plant on January 29, 2021
As of Wednesday, Grant County has shed its red ※very high risk” status under New Mexico’s “Red to Green” framework for determining coronavirus restrictions, and has achieved yellow, or ※high risk,” status.
The transition means Grant County restaurants can expand outdoor dining to 75 percent of capacity and may offer indoor dining up to 25 percent of normal capacity, and those establishments that serve alcohol may now do so up until 10 p.m. instead of 9. Essential retail spaces and houses of worship may operate at 33 percent of normal capacity, instead of 25 percent capacity; the limit on mass gatherings is raised to 10 people maximum, instead of five or fewer; and places of lodging that are certified under the state’s NM Safe training program may now host guests at 60 percent of normal c
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