Live Breaking News & Updates on Plata Middle School Principal Louis Alvarez

By The Daily Press Staff
The Silver school board began their meeting Monday night with an hour-plus-long closed session to discuss their selection of a new leader for the district to succeed retiring Superintendent Audie Brown, and closed the meeting three hours later with a unanimous vote to hire Hobbs Municipal Schools Assistant Superintendent William D. “Will” Hawkins to fill the job beginning this summer.
“I’m overjoyed and pretty excited about the whole situation,” Hawkins told the Daily Press on Monday evening after the vote. “My family and I look forward to the move, and I can’t wait to get home to Silver City.” ....

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