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Silver City Daily Digest Sunday, October 18, 2026

Ty's Take

The screwworm alert ought to get everybody's attention around here, because that's not some distant range problem—it's in our backyard and it hits both sides of what keeps this county alive. A rancher loses cattle to parasites while an artist planning a gallery space worries about her horses, and suddenly you realize how thin the line is between the mining heritage we came from and the outdoor life we're trying to build. Meanwhile, the Bayard police dust-up reminds us that even small-town governance gets tangled fast when different jurisdictions bump shoulders over turf. Good news is the pop-up art project shows Silver City's still dreaming bigger, which we need. Bad news is a lot of that dreaming depends on having a functioning, stable place to live and work. Hard to build a community art museum when you're watching what gets fed to your livestock.

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Weekend pop-up offers glimpse of group’s art museum vision

A group working toward opening an art museum in Silver City is hosting pop-up exhibitions this weekend at the historic former post office building at 412 W. Broadway to showcase their vision for the community. The Southwest Regional Museum of Art and Art Center board has raised halfway toward their...

New screwworm cases found near Silver City, Hachita

Two new cases of New World screwworm have been confirmed in Grant County, with one detected in a horse near Silver City and another in a calf near Hachita, prompting quarantine zones that restrict animal movement. All animals being moved within or out of these infested zones must be inspected, and...

Mining District police agreements rankle Bayard chief

Bayard Police Chief Hector Carrillo halted negotiations to have his department manage Hurley's police operations after Hurley Mayor Reynaldo Maynes was charged with refusing to stop for a police officer during a traffic stop on U.S. 180 in September. The proposed merger, which would have provided...

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West Plains Daily Digest Sunday, October 18, 2026

Ty's Take You get a week like this and you see the machinery of the region working the way it's supposed to. New highway patrol troopers graduating means younger officers cycling into stations across these counties, which matters more than most folks realize when you'

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Ty's Take The airport water line question keeps coming back around, doesn't it? Every few years somebody floats the idea of running infrastructure out to Spaceport America, and every few years the math doesn't work or the money isn't there or both.

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Ty's Take The housing authority holding rents steady at Jane's Place and The 505 next year is the kind of news that doesn't make headlines scream, but it matters more than most people realize. When you've got young families and service workers

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