Hobbs High School drama students will present “The 11th”, a drama in one act, at 7:00 pm, on Thursday, November 11. The play is merely one component of the school’s expansive 2021 Veterans Day observance.  Venue for the event is the historic R. N. Tydings performing arts center, located on the Hobbs High School campus….

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner – November 26 and November 29. Deals are starting to roll out everywhere, especially from the big box retailers. With all of the hype, folks often forget the importance of shopping locally to support and help local retailers find success while benefiting their local economy. …

The stage is set for a rapidly approaching oil boom to come to Lea County. Bank of America has revised its prediction of $100-a-barrel-oil from mid-2022 to around the year’s beginning, assuming this winter is as cold as that of last year. Conventional thinking suggests that $100-a-barrel-oil could lead to a significant boom in the…

Coronado Elementary School in Hobbs is one of only 325 schools, both public and private, in the entire USA to be named a 2021 National Blue Ribbon School. The award is a great honor for the school and the City of Hobbs as a whole. Hobbs educators, including Superintendent of Hobbs Municipal Schools Gene Strickland,…

Visitors and residents in Las Cruces will have the opportunity to participate in an auction of Native American crafts this November. The biennial “Navajo Rug Auction” will be making its return to Las Cruces on Saturday November 13. Sales will benefit Native crafters and local museums, according to the event’s organizers. The event is put…

Christopher “Todd” Bailey, editor of the Hobbs News-Sun, died on Sunday, October 31. He was 49.  Diagnosed with cancer in his left leg in 2020 that resulted in his leg being amputated just above his knee, Bailey recently learned that the cancer had spread to his lungs.  Bailey grew up in Hobbs and is well…

Right now a lot is going on in Lea County – the massive US 82 reconstruction project between mileposts 171 and 172 on Main Street in Lovington and the building of the new Magistrate Courthouse, also in downtown Lovington.  Much more is happening than these two projects, however, and the Lea County Board of Commissioners…

A new memoir by Robin Behl, a native of Hobbs, NM, recently hit bookstands around the country. Behl will be stopping by the Lea County Museum’s Lister Building in downtown Lovington for a free book signing event this Friday. The event will take place on November 5 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM at 114 E…

The acceptance by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s petition to reclassify per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as “hazardous waste” is a big win for Lea County. This reclassification allows county residents to better address problems PFAS create for area inhabitants. The Governor’s petition is the first of its kind, and…

If you are having problems dialing local numbers, it’s most likely because you are still using seven digits when you dial. Seven-digit dialing is now a thing of the past. On October 24, the new requirement of using 10 digits when dialing local numbers went into effect.  New Mexico isn’t the only place learning to…