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May 19, 2021
Splash park won’t open, but Hurley pool will Written by Nickolas Seibel on May 19, 2021
(Press File Photo by Stewart McClintic)
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.
May 12, 2021
Arrest leaves Hurley without police force – at least for now Written by Nickolas Seibel on May 12, 2021
By HANNAH DUMAS
Daily Press Correspondent
The town of Hurley may be without a police department, at least temporarily, after the community’s sole remaining police officer was arrested early Tuesday morning in Deming.
According to the Luna County Detention Center, Alyxis Rose Gonzalez was in custody there as of 8 a.m. Tuesday.
“That is a personnel matter,” Hurley Mayor Ed Stevens told the Daily Press on Tuesday evening. “We cannot discuss that.”
He declined to comment further.
The shortage caused by the officer’s arrest will be covered by the Bayard Police Department, as well as the county, Stevens said. While there has been an ongoing discussion about consolidating the Hurley and Bayard police forces, the Hurley Town Council’s decision earlier this year was to keep its own force. Whether the de
By The Daily Press Staff
The budget for Hurley’s next fiscal year may be in its early stages, but one thing already seems likely: For the first time since 2018, town employees can expect a significant pay raise come July 1.
Hurley’s Town Council held a special meeting Monday evening to move forward on some key engineering projects for the town, followed by a 30-minute work session dedicated to the community’s budget for the 2022 fiscal year. During the work session, Town Clerk Lori Ortiz laid out her preliminary budget for Hurley’s government.
Overall, the outlook was positive. Despite the pandemic, Ortiz said, FY 2021 has been a good one for the municipality.
March 6, 2021
Most of U.S. 180 to Deming will be ‘enhanced two-lane’ Written by Dean Thompson on March 6, 2021
The New Mexico Department of Transportation held a virtual public meeting Thursday night regarding reconstruction of U.S. 180 from Bayard to just north of Deming.
“This is the first step in a long process from design to construction,” said Trent Doolittle, District 1 engineer with the DOT. “This is a priority for District 1 [which covers the southwest portion of the state] and for the DOT as a whole.”
Based on findings of an analysis of the highway, the DOT laid out its recommendations:
• Reconstruct U.S. 180 in an undivided four-lane concept from Bayard to just south of Carrasco Avenue in Hurley.