Tia Duerrmeyer March 30, 2023

Auto burglaries in Hobbs – mainly in the city’s south and east areas – are frequent. Most entries into vehicles, states a Hobbs Police Department (HPD) press release (PDF) of Tuesday, March 28, “…have involved broken windows on the vehicles as a point of entry….” After an ongoing investigation about these burglaries, HPD officers determined…

Tia Duerrmeyer March 28, 2023

Christopher Rojas, age 17, of Hobbs is currently being held at the Lea County Detention Center after an “officer-involved shooting”. The incident occurred on Saturday, near the intersection of East Alameda Street and North Marland Boulevard in Hobbs, and involved several people. According to a New Mexico Department of Public Safety (NMDPS) press release, the…

Tia Duerrmeyer March 28, 2023

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is driving another wedge in Holtec International’s hope to build a nuclear waste facility in a remote area of Lea County, close to Eddy County. Referred to as the Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) and supported by Lea County Commissioners and the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance (ELEA), as well as…

Tia Duerrmeyer March 20, 2023

Communities and counties in southeastern New Mexico, like Hobbs and Lea County, that have adopted ordinances limiting access to reproductive healthcare are learning that the restrictions they have placed on providing such services are null and void. On Thursday, March 16, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law HB7 – the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health…

Tia Duerrmeyer March 17, 2023

Alexis Avila, the teenage mother accused of throwing her alive newborn in a trash bin in Hobbs on January 7, 2022, will be tried in Lea County on the criminal charge of “Child Abuse Causing Great Bodily Harm” – a first degree felony. On Monday, March 13, judge William G. W. Shoobridge, of the Fifth…

Tia Duerrmeyer March 8, 2023

The plan to store radioactive nuclear waste in an uninhabited area of Lea County has been on the drawing board since 2018. In August of that year, Lea County Commissioners passed a resolution (PDF) supporting Holtec International’s efforts to build its Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) in a remote region of the county. Then again…

Staff Writer March 6, 2023

This Letter to the Editor was submitted by Natalie Smith of Hobbs, Member of the Lea County Progressive Club. Now that The Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Healthcare Freedom Act  is closer to being signed into law by our governor, people seeking reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare services will enjoy more protections. Specifically, these bills, known as HB…

Jim Harris March 3, 2023

And Its Significance Just last week I read the story of J. O. Langford, a Mississippi cotton farmer who moved to the Big Bend Country of West Texas a century ago, in 1909, and homesteaded along the Rio Grande east of the Chisos Mountains. Langford’s story is told by a Texas writer of considerable talents,…

Tia Duerrmeyer March 1, 2023

The story of Hobbs teenager Alexia Avila allegedly throwing her alive newborn into a trash bin located behind Rig Outfitters and Home Store in Hobbs on January 7 of last year was covered by news outlets all across New Mexico, the entire nation and even overseas. Now that her trial, scheduled to take place in…