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Hummingbird Fire grows to over 4,000 acres
Map and Smoke Outlook at bottom of article
Acres: 4,364
Start Date: 4/20/2026
Location: 15 Miles East of Glenwood, NM
Personnel: 244
Containment: 0 %
Cause: Lightning
Summary:
April 29, 2026
Breezy and Dry Conditions forecasted for Hummingbird Fire
Acres: 3,882
Start Date: 4/20/2026
Location: 15 Miles East of Glenwood, NM
Personnel: 208
Containment: 0 %
Cause: Lightning
Summary:
Silver School board meets at Cliff Schools
By Lynn Janes
The Silver City Consolidated Schools held a work session and regular meeting April 20, 2026, in Cliff. Members in attendance Ashley Montenegro (phone), Michelle Diaz, Patrick Cohn, Mike McMillan and Kimberly Klement. Superintendent William Hawkins also attended. Diaz chaired the meeting due to Montenegro joining by phone.
Work session
Shane Coker, SPED (special education department) director, presented the IDEA-B application and handbook updates for special education procedures.
The IDEA application will be for funding special education. In special education they focus on two categories increasing the graduation rates for students with disabilities and decreasing the dropout rates for students with disabilities. The state rate of graduation for SPED has been 73.69 percent while the district has been 83.31 percent according to 2025 data. He had found that some that dropped out planned to pursue a GED. Last year they had received from the application $900,000 but this year would be only $700,000. Although the district has seen a decline in enrollment SPED has not.
Lighter winds allow aircraft to support Firefighters
Acres: 3,264
Start Date: 4/20/2026
Location: 15 Miles East of Glenwood, NM
Personnel: 204
Containment: 0 %
Cause: Lightning
Map Below
Summary:
Heidi Erstad and Mike Moutoux talk about iNaturalist app (Photo by Mary Alice Murphy)
Today, Monday, April 27, 2026 was the last day for people to report the various bugs, animals, birds, plants and other critters that they observed in the Grant County area for the Nature Challenge.
At the Silver City Public Library, several people gathered to hear Heidi Erstad demonstrate the app iNaturalist, where people can continue to report their photographic encounters with the flora and fauna of their neighborhoods or their observations on their hikes in the Gila National Forest.
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