For the News-Sun Six-time Olympic gold-medal swimmer Amy Van Dyken will be the next speaker in the JF Maddox Foundation Jack Maddox Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. June 23 at the University of the Southwest, Jack and Mabel Maddox Student Life Center. After the lecture, Van Dyken will be available for photos. Ticket information can …

For the News-Sun Six-time Olympic gold-medal swimmer Amy Van Dyken will be the next speaker in the JF Maddox Foundation Jack Maddox Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. June 23 at the University of the Southwest, Jack and Mabel Maddox Student Life Center. After the lecture, Van Dyken will be available for photos. Ticket information can …

Curtis C Wynne/News-Sun LOVINGTON — The eagerly awaited 2023 Lea County Fair and Rodeo concert lineup became final Thursday with county commissioners’ unanimous approval of contracts. Citing a total cost of $907,500 for artists and fees, the Lea County Fair and Rodeo Board recommended concerts to begin Aug. 4 with Hispanic Heritage Celebration night and continue the following Tuesday through …

529 plans now cover K-12 During my 21 years in the New Mexico State Senate, education has been a major focus of my service. As a retired educator, my participation on the Legislative Education Study Committee during the interim and my membership on the Senate Education Committee during the regular session gives me an opportunity to share my experience but …

Andy Brosig/News-Sun JAL – Brian Norwood has lived a long, storied life. In addition to heading up the Jal Historical Society and Museum, Inc., with his wife, Karen, he lists painter, journalist, magazine editor, surveyor, sketch artist and sign maker as just a few of the things he’s done to bring in a buck, he said. But the work Brian …

Virginia Cunningham/ News-Sun TATUM — The Town of Tatum will move forward with a special election to add a fifth council member to the town council. Tatum Town Clerk Amanda Thomas said, after many phone calls with multiple people around the state, and research she discovered, Tatum must hold the special election. The special election will be by mail-in ballot, and …

Andy Brosig/News-Sun Many parents play soft music, sounds of the sea or something similar to help their toddlers get to sleep. Shanessa Gluhm’s parents gave her books-on-tape cassettes nightly to help her catch 40 winks. “I was a voracious reader as a child,” Gluhm, the librarian at Sanger Elementary in Hobbs, told the News-Sun recently. “Before I knew what the letters …

Virginia Cunningham/News-Sun LOVINGTON —Lovington will soon have another grocery store. According to an announcement made by Lovington Economic Development Corporation Director Evelyn Holguin during Monday’s city commission meeting, United Supermarket is coming to Lovington. Holguin said the 50,000 square-foot grocery store and accompanying fuel station will be about an $18 million dollar project. A shopping center and fast-food restaurant, which …

Blake Ovard/News-Sun N.M. State Sen. David Gallagos, R-Eunice, Eunice Mayor Billy Hobbs, Eunice Council Member Erica Jones, Hobbs resident and Lea County Right to Life member Lori Bova joined Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Founder and Right To Life of East Texas Director Mark Lee Dickson on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday afternoon to announce a …

Jim Harris/Last Frontier When Tom and Fredda Bingham wake up early on spring mornings in their home on the north side of Hobbs, they have on their minds a multi-volume encyclopedia of Bingham family memories from which to remember. Married 70 years, they could, for instance, talk of Tom’s grandfather and grandmother Bingham, or his great-grandfather who came to Southeast …