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ROAD ADVISORY
DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS: Silver City Area
Difficult Driving Conditions, NM 15 northbound and southbound from mile marker 6, 1 mile south of Pinos Altos to mile marker 25, 14 miles south of Gila Hot Springs, roads are slushy, snow packed and icy in spots. Please drive with caution, reduce speed, and obey all posted traffic signs. The NMDOT will continue to monitor roadways. This event will be updated as conditions change.
DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS: Silver City Area
Difficult Driving Conditions, NM 152 eastbound and westbound from mile marker 23, 8 miles east of San Lorenzo to mile marker 40, Kingston, .roads are slushy, snow packed and icy in spots. Please drive with caution, reduce speed, and obey all posted traffic signs. The NMDOT will continue to monitor roadways. This event will be updated as conditions change.
DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS: Silver City Area
Difficult Driving Conditions, NM 35 northbound and southbound from mile marker 11, 11 miles north of NM 152 to mile marker 27, 0.5 miles south of NM 15, roads are slushy, snow packed and icy in spots. Please drive with caution, reduce speed, and obey all posted traffic signs. The NMDOT will continue to monitor roadways. This event will be updated as conditions change.
By Roger Lanse
On December 26, 2025, at approximately 10:30 a.m., a caller to the Grant County Regional Dispatch Authority reported he would be conducting a controlled burn for a couple of hours and would call when completed. According to a Grant County Sheriff’s Office incident report, a half hour later, at 11:03 a.m., a deputy was dispatched to a Gila address in reference to a shooting.
GCRDA then advised, the report said, that Russel Dobkins, 75, called, stating he had shot his neighbor. Esker Mayberry, 63, in the head with a .357 rifle as Mayberry was standing 20 feet from his house with a can of gas threatening to “burn him out.” Dobkins told dispatchers Mayberry was now lying in the fire and was burning and Dobkins was hosing down the fire to keep it from spreading. Dobkins also stated he had left the rifle in the garage.
As of 5:42 p.m., NM 15 northbound and southbound from mile marker 15, 8 miles north of Pinos Altos to mile marker 25, 14 miles south of Gila Hot Springs, is open and removed from NMRoads.
CLOSURE: Pinos Altos
Closure, NM 15 northbound and southbound from mile marker 15, 8 miles north of Pinos Altos to mile marker 25, 14 miles south of Gila Hot Springs, is closed due to snowplow stuck on roadway. Please seek alternate route and obey all posted traffic signs. The NMDOT is working on clearing the roadway. This event will be updated as conditions change.
Southwest Desert/Lower Gila River Valley-Lowlands of the Bootheel-
Uplands of the Bootheel-Southwest Desert/Mimbres Basin-
Including the cities of Deming, Antelope Wells, Columbus,
Cloverdale, Red Rock, Animas, Hachita, Lordsburg, and Virden
1012 AM MST Fri Jan 9 2026
...COLD WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM
MST SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Very cold wind chills of 10 to 15 degrees expected.
* WHERE...Far Southwest New Mexico.
* WHEN...From 11 PM this evening to 10 AM MST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Frostbite and hypothermia will occur if unprotected skin
is exposed to these temperatures.
[Editor's Note: Thanks go to Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society Secretary Denise Singleton for the article and photos. This editor was unable to attend due to traveling.]
Attendees at one of the break-out sessions
Article and Photos/PDFs below by Denise Singleton
On January 7, a public meeting was held at the Grant County Conference Center to present three proposed plans for the revitalization of Fort Bayard. The plans were developed by Stantec, LLC, which was awarded the contract for the project by the State of New Mexico.
State and local officials were also in attendance, as well as representatives from Stantec. A master plan will be developed from public feedback on the three options presented at the meeting. After an initial presentation by Stantec to review the three options, the attendees broke into smaller working groups to provide input.
ROAD ADVISORY
Difficult Driving Conditions: Cliff Area
NM 159 from milepost 5 to 26 is reported as snow-packed and icy. Please drive with caution, reduce speed, and obey all posted traffic signs. The NMDOT is plowing and will continue to monitor roadways. This event will be updated as conditions change.
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