Remember the Grant County Democratic Party’s 100 Day Countdown Breakfast on Saturday, July 29, 10 am at the Red Barn restaurant in Silver City. A complimentary breakf    ast bar will be available. There also will be a regular membership meeting on Wednesday, August 2, 6:30 pm at the Red Barn. Time to start thinking about [...]

ACLU of New Mexico, Southwestern Chapter Thursday, May 18, 2006 6:00 P.M. Silver City Public Library The monthly meeting of the ACLU will include a video presentation on voting rights, illustrating how the electoral power of minorities is often diluted through the manipulation of political districts by those in power, as well as by intimidation [...]

There will be an observance of the National Day of Action for immigrant justice on Monday, May 1, in Silver City — a “Picnic in the Park” — at Gough Park, 4-7 pm. Bring your own picnic, join with others, hear some music, raise your consciousness and support immigrant justice — all happening May 1.

A free lecture, “Indigenous Latino Medicine in Grant County,” will be presented by Gilbert Arizaga, M.D., at the Silver City Museum at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, April 30. The program is the second in a series presented by the Museum in conjunction with its featured exhibit, “Good For What Ails You: A Golden Climate Cures Silver [...]

The WNMU-Silver City International Film Soceity will host “Paradise Now” at the Real West Cinema II on April 23. Show time is 4 p.m. Georges, who hosts a TV literary review, receives packages containing videos of himself with his family — shot secretly from the street — and alarming obscure drawings. He has no idea [...]

Earth Day is April 22 and so is the Earth Day Celebration at Penny Park in Silver City!! The event runs from 10-3 and we still have space for booths ($15 information only and $25 handmade items/service for sale). We also have slots available in our entertainment schedule–we’d love to have dancers, magicians, musicians, jugglers, [...]

There will be a meeting at 7:00 PM on Wednesday April 12 in Silver City to continue local efforts to get a community radio station up and running in Silver and vicinity. There has been a lot of progress in these regards over the last several months, and if you are interested in coming to [...]

TRACY GRAMMER & JIM HENRY Friday, April 7, 7:30pm Tickets: $15 Members, $18 Non-members. “When Dad used to get out his lap steel and electric guitars, we’d invite the neighborhood kids over and sing country songs. I’d sit across from my dad and read the music upside-down so I could turn the pages for him. [...]

For those of you interested in Silver City’s water future, the Town of Silver City Utilities Department will be having a public meeting to discuss the update to the town’s 40-year water plan on Thursday, March 30 at 7:00 pm at the Grant Co. Administration Building, 1400 Hwy.180 East. Dave Romero from Balleau Groundwater Inc. [...]

The WNMU-Silver City International Film Soceity will host “Paradise Now” at the Real West Cinema II on March 19. Show time is 4 p.m. Two Palestinian childhood friends have been recruited for a strike on Tel Aviv. The movie focuses on their last days together. When they are iintercepted at the Israeli border and separated [...]

The Silver City Food Coop is beginning a series of forums… The topic of this first forum, to be held on Thursday, March 16th at 7 PM, is: Creating a Local, Sustainable Food System for Our Community. The forum will be held at Alotta Gelatto, 619 N. Bullard, Silver City. Local and Regional Food Systems [...]

Magdaleno Manzanares, associate professor of political science at Western New Mexico University, will discuss the “Growing Latino Influence on American Politics” on Wednesday, March 15, as part of the Grant County Democratic Party’s “Issue Lunch” series. Manzanarez, whose instruction includes American national government, Latin American history and politics, Latino/Chicano politics and international social justice issues, [...]