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COURTESY WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Wrestlers from five New Mexico high schools competed at Western New Mexico University’s football stadium in Silver City last Friday in a rare outdoors, dual-match competition hosted by Silver High School. Silver and WNMU hope to collaborate to make this an annual event. Wrestling, al fresco. A unique partnership between Silver High and Western New Mexico last weekend created one of the most unusual scenes of the year in what has already been the most unconventional of prep sports seasons: Outdoor wrestling. ......................................

Wrestling with a dilemma - Silver, WNMU join up for COVID-safe outdoor wrestling Silver head coach Luis Alvarado goes over technique with freshman Landon Sandoval during practice Thursday afternoon in the new SHS wrestling room. The Colts will be hosting the Inaugural Outdoor Silver High Wrestling Invitational this afternoon at Ben Altamirano Field on the Western New Mexico University campus. (Press Staff Photo by Dean Thompson) In a normal year, wrestling season is held in the dead of winter. But this isn’t a normal year, and Silver head wrestling coach Luis Al...

Silver board taps 4 superintendent finalists Written by Dean Thompson on March 12, 2021 The Silver Consolidated Schools Board of Education heard plans Thursday for fully reopening its schools as of April 6, and gave out the names of the finalists for the job that will open up when Superintendent Audie Brown retires at the end of June. The four finalists are current Silver Associate Superintendent Curtis Clough; William Hawkins, with the Hobbs schools; Fred Parker, with the Deming schools; and Bill Green, Catron County manager and former Quemado...

COVID-19 closes Silver High for 10 days Written by Dean Thompson on March 9, 2021 While the New Mexico Public Education Department was holding a news conference Monday afternoon to announce that all schools in the state should be back to full, in-person learning April 5 — meaning all students who want to attend school in person full time will be able to — the Silver School District was announcing that it was going to have to shut down its primary high school for 10 days due to a positive test for COVID-19. Silver High School Athletic Direct...

January 15, 2021 Silver may cut superintendent search short, hire Clough Written by Dean Thompson on January 15, 2021 Ashley Montenegro was voted in as the new president of the Silver Schools Board of Education Thursday night, but outgoing President Eddie Flores put a little wrinkle in the board’s plans. During discussion on the superintendent search, Flores said, “After listening to my constituents and staff, I wonder if we should end the search, and name Mr. [Curtis] Clough the superintendent. He’s here, and if we wait too long, we migh...