In 2007, the newspaper received the Mark Twain Award from the New Mexico Associated Press Managing Editors for their outstanding member cooperation in 2006.

The independent policy adopted by Mr. Norton finds no favor with the new management, and henceforth this paper will advocate the principles of the Democratic party as expressed in the Chicago platform, and will render staunch and active support to party interests, in national, territorial and county politics.

Walton continued to publish the newspaper for more than 35 years, until ill health forced him to put the paper up for sale, and on October 1, 1934, the Ely family purchased the Independent.

[4] At that time, the Ely family also owned Gallup Independent and the Yuma Arizona Sentinel newspapers.

[6] When Mrs. Ely died, Tina noted that her mother passed control of the newspaper to her, "as my father did to her and my grandfather did to my dad.

"[6] In October 2006, the Secretary of State of New Mexico placed approximately $13,500 worth of legal ads with The Silver City Daily Press in connection with the then-upcoming November elections.

[16] In addition to receiving the ability to publish content in an average of 67,000 newspapers per publication day, the Silver City Daily Press obtained publishing rights access through the exchange to small-town community news from member newspapers around New Mexico.

[16] As described by Community News Exchange editor Tom McDonald, "The objective is to not only provide smaller newspapers with a news-sharing system, but to deliver to them quality content that supplements their local news-gathering operations.

[17] After reading the announcement in the paper, former Daily Press General Manager Nickolas Seibel assembled a group of local investors to back him in a purchase of some of the newspaper's assets, including the name, website, archives and a few pieces of equipment.

The potential deal was announced in what was to be the newspaper's final issue on Monday, April 28, and the newspaper was first published under the ownership of Seibel's Silver City Independent Publishing Company, LLC, on Tuesday, April 29 — without missing a day of publication.