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By Roger Lanse
On Thursday, Sept. 26, 2025, at about 8 p.m. a caller to the Grant County Regional Dispatch Authority advised that the aisles of the Bayard Family Dollar store "are flooded and the roof is caving in," and that "she saw a worker get shocked."
According to Bayard Volunteer Fire Department Chief Gabriel Gonzales it appears as if an electrical problem occurred at the store along with some flooding. Gonzales stated the flooding may have been from rainfall that evening and not a result of the electrical malfunction.
By Lynn Janes
The town of Hurley had a regular meeting September 9, 2025. Mayor Ed Stevens, Mayor Pro Tem Reynaldo Maynes, and Councilors Robert Candelaria, Pete Ordonez and Aron Phillips attended.
The council approved the consent agenda that included minutes and department head reports.
George Esqueda, Stantec senior project manager, attended to provide a project update to the council and a packet containing all the information. Stantec currently has a masters service agreement (MSA) with the town of Hurley. The original agreement had been executed September 6, 2023, and has been extended each year and now until September 6, 2026. He had a list of task orders. Stevens asked him to quickly read through the task orders before he provided a more extensive explanation of each.
By Lynn Janes
On September 11, 2025, the commission held a regular meeting at the city annex building.
New business
Raymond De la Vega, Stantec, presented an update on the project. They had finished the required paperwork for highway 152 with the US Forest Service. Now they will have to wait for the permit. Surveys have been being done on the Bayard bypass and tank route. Updates on the area between Bayard and Hurley topographical maps will have to be made because of the construction. They have also been working on the Rosedale connection. One of the first parts of the project will be Hurley and the lightning protection for the wells and it would be a combined bid. The area has had a history of lightning strikes so it will be a necessary part of the project.
By Lynn Janes
(Author's note: This had been set as a virtual meeting. At the time of the meeting, they didn't have any audio and hoping they had been able to adjust the problem with the video put up after the meeting didn't happen. The recording is useless, and video didn't work either. The author did find a way to obtain the transcript, so this article has been written with only a transcript.)
On September 11, 2025, the board of regents held a virtual regular meeting at Western New Mexico University. The board consisted of Steven Neville, chair, Joseph "Dean" Reed, John Wertheim and WNMU student Keana Huerta. Dr. Chris Maples, interim president, also attended.
The board had a closed session before this meeting started and said they had only discussed the pending litigation concerning Dr. Shepard and no action had taken place.
By Lynn Janes
The town of Hurley had a workshop September 2, 2025. Mayor Ed Stevens, Mayor Pro Tem Reynaldo Maynes Robert Candelaria and Pete Ordonez attended. Aron Phillips did not attend.
Stevens said no decisions would be made at this time and the meeting would just be for discussion.
Archi Padilla, New Mexico BARC (border animal rescue coalition) vice president, had asked to address the council with changes their organization would like to see made to the Hurley animal control ordinance. She started by introducing the people involved in the organization that had attended. Many had been involved in volunteering at the Hurley shelter for years and one had purchased the trees to put around the shelter.
By Roger Lanse
On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, at about 9:07 a.m., a Hurley Police Department officer and a Grant County Sheriff's Office deputy responded to a domestic violence call at a Lea Drive address in Hurley. After interviewing all parties, a Hurley man, Nathaniel Dominguez, 23, was arrested and booked into the Grant County Detention Center on charges of aggravated battery against a household member, false imprisonment, and criminal damage to property of a household member.
According to GCDC staff, Dominguez was released the next day by Judge Grijalva on an $11,000 unsecured bond on those three charges, plus an additional $1,000 unsecured bond on an unrelated charge.
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