The Wonder on Wheels Traveling Museum presented by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs will visit Hillsboro Monday, October 21, 1:00 - 5:00 PM. It will be parked in front of the Black Range Museum. Please come and see the exhibit which focuses on Farming and Food Ways in New Mexico. This is a free exhibit for all ages. Please come and show your support for the State of New Mexico’s outreach to rural communities.

Calling all apple lovers! The Kingston Apple Orchard will be having a 'soft' opening for u-pick during the Kingston community yard sale, this Saturday, Sept. 7 from 10:0AM-2:00PM, and next Saturday, Sept. 14 from 10:00AM-2:00PM. To allow us ease into the harvest, gauge interest, and offer the community a chance to visit, ask questions, and get in contact for volunteering, we are floating these dates on a word of mouth basis. Feel free to invite family, friends, visitors, Lodge guests, etc. Public u-pick dates will be announced soon.

Please park on Kingston Main and walk North down Italian to enter through the orchard gates. Please bring your own container if you plan on buying large quantities. We will offer reasonable u-pick prices and pre-picked prices. If you can't make these days, or have apple needs between, 5lb bags of apples are now available for purchase at the self-serve apple stand located in front of the orchard at 35 Kingston Main.

If you would like to receive timely orchard updates via email list, or have specific requests, please send an email to lou_vide@protonmail.com. Dates will also be posted at the Hillsboro community board, the Post Office, and the Black Range Lodge board.

Desert Night Acoustic Music Camp presents…

A Free Concert at the Black Range Lodge

Featuring Wil Maring, Robert Bowlin, Chris Sanders & Steve Smith

7 – 9 pm Saturday August 24, 2024

Award-winning singer/ songwriter Wil Maring and national guitar and fiddle champ Robert Bowlin join with mandolin virtuoso Steve Smith and songstress Chris Sanders to create a mesmerizing mix of acoustic Americana, folk and bluegrass originals. wilmaring.com, robertbowlin.com, hardroadtrio.com Cool off in Kingston, in the Gila National Forest, at special summer “Starlight Concerts” at the Black Range Lodge.

Wine & beer will be available from Black Range Vineyards.

The Lodge is located at 50 Main Street, Kingston, New Mexico, 9 miles west of Hillsboro off of NM 152. For more info visit blackrangelodge.com, or call 575-895-5652.

Starlight Concerts are sponsored by the non-profit Sierra County Arts Council (SCAC). (Donations for the musicians gratefully accepted.)

Gila Centennial Anniversary Collection of Poetry and Photographs invites submissions of original work celebrating the ancestral homelands of the Gila Wilderness and the sacred union on nature and culture across time and space. 

Please submit up to Five Photographs (Color or Black & White) and/or Five Poems of any length for our review. 

Our submission period opens August 15, 2024 and closes on November 15, 2024. 

Our editorial team will select work for this edited anniversary volume, and notify writers and artists of our decisions by mid-December. 

We accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that you kindly withdraw your submission. We do not consider previously published work. 

Queries and Submission via email to Senior Editor: 

Dr. Michelle Hall Kells 

Professor of Rhetoric & Writing 

University of New Mexico 

The Hillsboro Historical Society presents -Joe Britton on the story of El Refugio the “Playboy of the Eastern World” and, at the time, the world’s richest bachelor, built a retreat for himself in Hillsboro in 1941. Why?

Hillsboro Community Center 316 Elenora Suggested Donation $15, Members $12, Students $5, Children under 12 Free