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Tuesday night’s meeting of the Silver City Town Council was jampacked with community members in support of and opposing a request from SPIN — Supporting People in Need — to license a transitional house at 505 N. Cooper St., across the street from Sixth Street Elementary School. In a July 8 Facebook post, Silver Schools Superintendent William D. “Will” Hawkins announced the district’s request that the council remand the approval …

According to an advertisement placed in today’s Daily Press by Town Clerk Alfred Sedillo, the Silver City Town Council will vote tonight to approve a $10 million settlement with the family of Nikki Bascom. Bascom was murdered on April 21, 2016, by her former partner, Silver City Police Capt. Mark Contreras, before he turned the gun on himself in the driveway of a Silver City home. “Announcing the settlement at …

During their regular meeting Feb. 22, the Silver City Town Council hosted representatives of the architectural firm that will design the planned Silver City recreation center, which should be completed sometime in 2024. Jason Ringdahl, principal in charge of the Colorado-based firm Barker Rinker Seacat — or BRS — gave a presentation on a study of the community and its needs. The firm is now in the preplanning period of …

Members of the Silver City Town Council made short work of an even shorter agenda, which after revision at the beginning of the session included only one action item — the award of a bid to rehabilitate the second of three water storage tanks above Chloride Flats west of Silver City. The nearly $1 million bid, awarded to D&R Tank Company of Albuquerque, will fund work on the south tank …

An act of vandalism apparently committed last Saturday night left City Hall in downtown Silver City without internet and telephone service into Tuesday, and the outage was predicted to last through today “at least,” according to a text alert sent by the town. “Walk-in customers are still welcome, however no credit card payments can currently be accepted,” the text stated. Town Clerk Alfred Sedillo said the service interruption hadn’t affected …