The Hobbs Public Library is turning into a science laboratory once a month throughout the year. Hobbs students in the fourth through eighth grades are invited to participate in the Hobbs Library new program called Got Science?!? The new program will have students participating in a hands-on workshop that will be run by Science Spectrum instructors from Lubbock. “It’s a …
Richard Cummins retired from the Hobbs Fire Department in 1998 after a 21-year career doing everything from being the truck driver to working as an instructor. He liked teaching so much that after he retired he enrolled in college to become a school teacher, meeting his wife, Shannon, in the process. In 2008, Hobbs Fire Chief Manny Gomez called Cummins …
Over two hundred bikers ride in the Station One 911 Ride to Remember motorcycle run Monday in Hobbs New Mexico. The ride began on Joe Harvey and continued to Dal Paso, Broadway, Lovington Highway to they reached the 911 memorial on Jack Gomez Blvd. Special ride dedication in honor of the late Sheriff Steve Ackerman, and former chief of police …
ALBUQUERQUE — Markell Quashan Sweargin, 19, of Lubbock, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Las Cruces to transporting a person for the purpose of engaging in prostitution. Sweargin was arrested in Hobbs in June 2017, on a criminal complaint charging him with transporting a person in interstate commerce for the purpose of forcing the person to engage in a commercial …
Hobbs Schools celebrated homecoming events on Friday, including a parade on Broadway.
For four decades a Hobbs family has been flipping and selling hamburgers in the Downtown Mini Mall and they credit their success to their customers. Kenny and Peggy Smith, the founders of Casey’s, and their daughter Paula Manis, the current owner of Casey’s, are celebrating their restaurant’s 40th anniversary. Casey’s is located at 209 W. Broadway. Kenny said he and …
Local Elementary and middle school students and their teachers can get a free breakfast this morning at McDonald’s. The four restaurants in Hobbs and Lovington are part of a state-wide effort to provide a free, nutritional breakfast to any student who wants one. Any student from Kindergarten to eighth grade and their teachers can visit a local New Mexico-based McDonald’s from …
Over 60 students explored a Native Air Medivac after landing in the parking lot at St. Helena’s School Thursday afternoon.
While the main concern from Hurricane Harvey those who can walk and talk, one entity in Lea County is committed to helping those who have fur, hooves, paws and claws and mostly want to be petted. A small caravan of Lea County residents who care about what happens to animals displaced, lost or abandoned is forming to take supplies 12 …
Hurricane Harvey donations are still being accepted in the Wal-Mart parking lot near McDonald’s. New Mexico Junior College has volunteered to transport donations to Texas.
