Thursday’s town hall meeting marked a year since the city of Deming introduced the monthly gatherings, and the first to take place in the new municipal building. The building, which housed a Kmart until it closed in 2016, sat empty for nearly four years until the city purchased it in 2020 with plans to renovate it for retail space as well as new city offices. The address is 1275 E. …
This story originally misstated the date of the event. Weaver’s Welding is seeing that the children and parents of Deming have a safe and sane option for Halloween. The Great Pumpkin makes a return visit to town on Sunday, Oct. 22, for the popular annual candy drop. Backed by the local Friends of the Community nonprofit, Richard Weaver plans to bring a towering construction crane with buckets full of candy …
The vacant corner behind Marshall Memorial Public Library on E. Spruce Street may eventually support a new business. At its regular meeting Tuesday, the Deming City Council took a procedural step toward selling the property to Old Glory, LLC. The city purchased the property south of Snappy Mart approximately a decade ago, City Administrator Aaron Sera explained, for an anticipated expansion of the library. The plans were dropped and since …