Grant County, New Mexico · Newsletter archive

Grant County Good News

Grant County Good News was a weekly local newsletter for Silver City and Grant County, with a feature story, short history notes, a community calendar and a directory of local businesses. This archive keeps what it had published by June 1, 2026.

Archived snapshot of June 1, 2026. This is a read-only copy of Grant County Good News restored from a recovered database backup. It is not current and is no longer updated. Every event listed here has already happened, and businesses may have moved, changed, or closed since then. Listings are not endorsements or current sponsorships.

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Past issues

Week of June 1, 2026Issue 2026-w235 history notes · 11 calendar listings
Week of May 25, 2026The Santa Rita Copper Story: 220 Years and Counting5 history notes · 5 calendar listings
Week of May 18, 2026Double Murder Near Springerville in Luna Valley (1888)5 history notes · 2 calendar listings

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Stories

Evergreen featureFort Bayard: From Frontier Post to TB Hospital to Quiet ReserveFounded in 1866 to protect miners and stage routes from Apache raids, Fort Bayard outlived the cavalry, became a tuberculosis hospital, and is now a National Historic Landmark you can walk through any morning.
Evergreen featurePinos Altos: The Town That Almost Was the CapitalIn 1860 a chunk of placer gold the size of a fist was found in Bear Creek. Within a year, Pinos Altos was the largest settlement in southwestern New Mexico — and a serious bid for the territorial capital.
Evergreen featureThe Santa Rita Copper Story: 220 Years and CountingSpanish prospectors found copper in the Kneeling Nun country in 1804. Six flags later, the pit is still working — and still rewriting the landscape every shift.
Evergreen featureWhen Water Was the Real TreasureIn Grant County, gold and silver got the headlines, but water often decided which settlements survived. A look at how springs, creeks, and hand-dug wells shaped where people built.
Feature storyDouble Murder Near Springerville in Luna Valley (1888)A double murder occurred near Springerville, Arizona, in the Luna Valley in 1888, triggered by a dispute that began after a horse race.
Feature storyPillar PerezA Mexican man who fatally shot Deputy Sheriff Hall and was convicted of murder in the first degree.

Community calendar

The newsletter’s calendar listed 44 events between April 1, 2026 and August 28, 2026. All of them are now past; they are kept as a record of what was happening in the county.

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Local business directory (June 2026)

The newsletter kept a free directory of local businesses and community organizations. It is preserved as it was listed in June 2026; check with a business directly before relying on any detail.

About this archive

The pages are rebuilt from a database backup taken on June 1, 2026. The original live service stopped in August 2026, and a later backup could not be opened, so anything added after June 1, 2026 is not here. Only published issues and stories, the approved calendar and the active directory are shown. Draft material, duplicate copies, demonstration listings and an unfinished automatically generated story were left out, and nothing about subscribers or advertisers is published.

Several issue sections were compiled automatically from historical newspaper sources in 2026 and are shown as they were published, without re-checking. For checked local history, use the History & Treasure section and the Grant County Atlas.