May 19, 2021
Splash park won’t open, but Hurley pool will Written by Nickolas Seibel on May 19, 2021
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Santa Clara Mayor Richard Bauch sports a poncho while testing out the village’s new splash park during a ribbon-cutting in November 2016. With the mayor is architect Steven Shelendich, who designed the park, and his partner, artist Zoe Wolfe, both sporting wetsuits for the event.
With construction on Maple Street set to begin any day now, the village of Santa Clara has announced that it will not open the Roger T. Silva Splash Park this year but Mining District families will likely still have access to aquatic fun this summer.
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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.
February 1, 2021
Air Force opts not to fly F-16s over Gila Written by Geoffrey Plant on February 1, 2021
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Mike Ferris, shown testifying, was one of more than 500 people who showed up to a December 2019 public hearing at the Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center regarding the draft environmental impact statement related to the proposed expansion of military training flights in southern New Mexico. The hearing was one of eight that were held in affected communities across southern New Mexico.
According to a final environmental impact statement released last week, the U.S. Air Force has determined that expanding military airspace over the Gila National Forest and Silver City in order to accommodate an annual 10,000 F-16 training flights out of Holloman Air Force Base is not the best way to fulfill its goal of “optimizing the training airspace