Along with the weather, criminal activity appears to be heating up in Grant County.
“April and the first week of May have brought us a significant increase in serious incidents and/or criminal cases,” Sheriff Frank Gomez told Grant County commissioners at their regular meeting Thursday. He noted that “a convicted felon with a lengthy criminal history” who had recently been released from prison was apprehended this week in connection with a May 1 shootout that occurred “at a large family gathering” in Santa Clara.
Gomez told the Daily Press that the Silver City Police Department arrested 27-year-old Joseph Chavez pursuant to an arrest warrant during a traffic stop in the Brewer Hill neighborhood Wednesday. According to court documents, in addition to three criminal charges stemming from the Santa Clara shootout, Chavez picked up seven more charges during the traffic stop, during which police say they found nearly 11 grams of methamphetamine in the car Chavez was operatin
Parade of county officials submit budget requests Written by Geoffrey Plant on April 28, 2021
Grant County officials held a hearing Tuesday afternoon in preparation for formulating their 2022 fiscal year budget, and while solid revenue projections aren’t available yet, the exercise gave some insight into expenditure priorities for the various county departments.
Payroll is the largest overall expense for the county, accounting for around 70 percent of its expenditures; but at the departmental level, costs associated with the Grant County Detention Center eat up about one-third of the annual budget, according to County Manager Charlene Webb.
“That’s the reality of counties in New Mexico right now,” said Webb, who has long been a member of the chorus of county managers who argue that the state unfairly mandates county corrections services a large portion of which are ultimately for detainees with behavioral health challen
Commission shoots down low-income tax rebate Thursday Written by Geoffrey Plant on January 29, 2021
Worried about the county’s bottom line, Grant County commissioners voted 3-2 Thursday against a push to adopt an ordinance that would have allowed Grant County’s lowest-income property owners to take advantage of a tax rebate available under state statute.
Only Santa Fe and Los Alamos counties currently offer the rebate, and Grant County officials have repeatedly shot down the idea, which individual counties must choose to adopt, every other year at least since the early 2000s.
According to Section 7-2-14.3 of New Mexico tax law, ※In January of every odd-numbered year in which a county does not have in effect a [low-income property tax rebate] ordinance adopted pursuant to this subsection, the board of county commissioners of the county shall conduct a public hearing on the question of whether the
SILVER CITY - Two guest readers of Christmas Past Silver City Mayor Ken Ladner and Grant County Assessor Raul Turrieta will return “with bells on” to read the holiday classic poem Twas the Night Before Christmas/Era la Vispera de Navidad for the Silver City Museum’s bilingual series of bedtime stories.
The reading will begin at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20. You can register and attend at www.SilverCityMuseum.Org, or at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN k8kSuHVNRPWWb7kOKB4IUw.
The next upcoming Bilingual Storytime will be at 7 p.m. Jan. 3 when Patrick Hoskins and Grant County Commissioner Javier Salas will read The Roadrunner’s Dance, by Rudolfo Anaya. Register on the museum website or at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN 1psAYnZyREOGsfzQk nQ A, or open Zoom and join Meeting ID 893 2173 0803.
December 20, 2020 @ 7:00 am - 7:30 pm
The Silver City Museum is hosting a virtual Zoom “Twas the Night Before Christmas” Bilingual Storytime this Sunday, December 20
th at 7:00 P.M. Silver City Mayor, Ken Ladner, and Grant County Assessor, Raul Turrieta, are the featured readers. To register and obtain the link for this free holiday event, go to silvercitymuseum.org.