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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. …

Immediately after the Pledge of Allegiance at Monday night’s regular meeting of the Cobre Schools Board of Education, Vice President Frank Cordova and board President Ralph “Toy” Sepulveda each resigned from their seats, leaving the meeting immediately after doing so. Fellow board member Gilbert Guadiana filed recall petitions against both men earlier this year, and a hearing on the recall petition is set for Wednesday afternoon in district court. “During …

After an evening of public forum interviews at a special meeting Wednesday, the Cobre Consolidated Schools Board of Education voted to hold off on selecting the district’s new superintendent, and will hold a special meeting tonight at 5 to make the final decision. Based on their remarks in Wednesday’s session, it appears that two board members, board President Ralph “Toy” Sepulveda and Vice President Frank Cordova, will not be able …

More than 1,200 early votes have already been cast in Grant County in Tuesday’s consolidated local election, in which a number of offices are being contested from school boards to town councils. Grant County Bureau of Elections Director Elizabeth Trujillo said 202 early ballots were cast at the Bayard Community Center, while 1,024 people turned out to vote early at the county clerk’s office in Silver City. Early voting ended …

Six candidates vying for three at-large positions up for election on the Cobre Consolidated School District Board of Education on Nov. 2 joined the two running for election in District 4 on the Silver Consolidated Schools board for a Zoom-broadcast Daily Press candidate forum Tuesday night. Michelle Diaz, incumbent District 4 Silver board member, opened the forum by saying the COVID-19 pandemic had given her “a newfound sense of urgency …