January 15, 2021
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The Silver City Burger Time restaurant closed Thursday after 48 years. This closure was the last of the Burger Time locations across southwest New Mexico as the former chain’s owner prepares to retire.
After nearly 50 years of serving southwest New Mexico, the staff of the Silver City Burger Time the last location of the former chain in operation said their goodbyes to the community and locked the restaurant’s doors for the last time Thursday.
“We’ve had so many kind words said on Facebook, and it’s humbling,” owner Kevin McGrath said. “You don’t realize how many people you’ve touched in your life in the food industry, and I didn’t realize that, until we closed the Las Cruces stores how much impact it had locally.”
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Grant County Farm and Livestock Bureau President Stuart Rooks and volunteer Michael Koury attach a sign to the front door of the 12-foot-by-21-foot greenhouse erected Saturday by the organization at San Lorenzo Elementary School in the Mimbres Valley.
The Grant County Farm and Livestock Bureau funded and constructed most of a 250-square-foot greenhouse at San Lorenzo Elementary School in the Mimbres Valley on Saturday with hopes of eventually building a similar one at every elementary school in the county.
※We feel like we can reach more people by providing these greenhouses in more urban settings,” said Stuart Rooks, president of the county farm bureau. ※Anything out in the rural areas we are certainly going to support, but we are looking at these schools and getting these kids interested in agriculture at a younger age.”
Mystery hole threatens Bayard well Written by Makayla Grijalva on January 12, 2021
With only one item to consider at their meeting Monday, aside from the consent agenda, the Bayard City Council approved the sale of several city assets at auction on Jan. 8 a car hauler trailer, a cement mixer, a 2001 Ford Taurus, and 2002 and 2008 Ford trucks.
The sale saw little discussion, and was approved unanimously.
Bayard Clerk-Treasurer Kristy Ortiz also gave an update on two projects at the city’s wastewater treatment plant dewatering and repairs to the influent line for which she is working to get approvals for funding.
She reported that she would meet with George Esqueda from engineering firm Stantec following Monday’s meeting regarding federal Community Development Block Grant funding for the influent waterline and the U.S. 180 lighting project.
January 8, 2021
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William Fowler, who served as a community physician in Silver City for about six decades, passed away Dec. 21 at the age of 91.
William Fowler wore many hats throughout the course of his life logger, cowboy, bulldozer operator, Army medic but the one he will be most known for is physician.
※He was one of the last of the old-time country doctors that did everything deliver babies, did surgery, you name it,” said Jeb Fowler, Dr. Fowler’s son. ※I know he had a lot of patients over the years where he delivered them when they were born, and signed their death certificate when they died.”