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SANTA ROSA, N.M. — Esports is a good example of what’s wrong with our world today and what the schools are doing right about it.

SANTA ROSA, N.M. — Esports is a good example of what’s wrong with our world today and what the schools are doing right about it.

The Silver City Town Council wasn’t as eager as the governing bodies in the Mining District to give its endorsement to proposed state legislation that would give local governments the authority to produce and sell their own power — at least not without more information about the bill. Councilors voted unanimously Tuesday evening to remove a resolution from the agenda that would have given the town’s support to the Local …

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff Transportation and campus security are among the priorities for which Grant County schools will be requesting capital funds in this month’s session of the New Mexico Legislature. The superintendents of the Silver and Cobre school districts, as well as Aldo Leopold Charter School’s administrator, outlined their requests before District 39 state Rep. Luis Terrazas, a Republican from Santa Clara, and District 28 state Sen. …

By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff Cobre High School senior Andres Tovar is not a person who likes the spotlight, his mother said, but that was exactly where he was Dec. 1. On that day, he was surprised at a school assembly when his name was called as the recipient of a $500 Silent Servant Scholarship, one of only 350 given out in the country. The scholarship, given by the …

A Massachusetts company intends to apply for a community solar project in Santa Clara, after the village’s Board of Trustees voted to move forward with the project at its regular meeting Thursday. The potential 2 megawatt solar garden would be located on 10 acres of vacant village property just northwest of Dollar General, adjacent to U.S. 180. The unanimous vote by the trustees means the village will begin negotiations with …

Invasive plants like cheatgrass are expanding in Western rangelands, speeding up the fire cycle in the sagebrush steppe, along with climate change, and threatening the most widespread ecosystem in the country.

Do good, get good — that was the message delivered Wednesday to about 100 attendees of a youth conference in Roswell by its keynote speaker, actor Danny Trejo.

Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record Another 15,000 people received COVID-19 vaccinations in the state including nearly 200 in Chaves County, according to Friday’s update on the New Mexico Department of Health’s vaccine dashboard. The state has administered 480,810 doses of COVID-19 vaccine. That includes 318,509 primary doses and 162,301 second doses. In Chaves County, an additional 59 people received their first dose of vaccine compared to Thursday’s update, and 131 received a second ...