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Mysterious motel shooting leaves woman dead Written by Geoffrey Plant on June 4, 2021
A woman is dead and a man was treated for a gunshot wound at Gila Regional Medical Center following a shooting incident at the Silver City Motel 6 on U.S. 180 on Wednesday afternoon.
The Silver City Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division is investigating the incident as a homicide, according to Police Chief Fred Portillo, who identified the injured man as 29-year-old Nickolas Choeipo, and the deceased female as 30-year-old Codi Rhodes, both from Arizona. No charges have been filed in connection with the incident, which at least one person in the room at the time said was an accident.
A woman is dead and a man is being treated for gunshot wounds at Gila Regional Medical Center following a shooting Wednesday afternoon at the Motel 6 on U.S. 180 in Silver City. The Silver City Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division is investigating the incident as a shooting, according to Police Chief Fred Portillo, who said the male and female victims hail from Arizona. “At 2:21 p.m., we responded to …
Unmasked postal customers could face fine Written by Geoffrey Plant on May 14, 2021
District 2 Town Councilor Lynda Aiman-Smith wants Silver Citians to remember that they must don face coverings to protect themselves and others from COVID-19 while they’re inside public spaces or face a fine and that includes the post office in Silver City.
During the April 27 regular meeting of the Silver City Town Council, Aiman-Smith asked Police Chief Fred Portillo to reach out to the post office on Hudson Street, where she said there has been a dearth of mask-wearing among postal customers of late.
Per the minutes of that meeting, Aiman-Smith had indicated that one of her constituents “had a disappointing experience of being in our post office, which I know is a federal building, where about half of the people were unmasked. She politely asked the person by her to put the mask up over their nose, they refused, and then she was yelled at
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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