LOVINGTON — The Lea County Commission on Thursday finalized a redistricting proposal with minimal changes. With a 2020 Federal Census count of 74,455 residents, County Clerk Keith Manes explained the ideal number in each of five districts would be 14,891. “But you can’t get that because you can’t split precincts,” Manes told the commissioners. Redistricting is required immediately after every …

The Lea County Communication Authority is having staffing issues, according to LCCA director Angela Martinez. The auto-attendant system the LCCA has implemented has allowed the agency to cut back on the number of incoming calls and has lightened the workload of LCCA employees, Martinez told the Hobbs City Commission Monday night. “Our schedules before COVID were five, eight-hour shifts, with …

Newspaper industry association recognizes the Hobbs News-Sun, News-Sun staff  among the best in New Mexico Awards can be a good measure of an individual or organization, if those awards are based on talent, dedication, merit, and hard work. At the New Mexico Press Association 2021 Better Newspaper Contest awards banquet in Santa Fe Saturday night, the News-Sun brought home 14 …

Newspaper industry association recognizes the Hobbs News-Sun, News-Sun staff  among the best in New Mexico Awards can be a good measure of an individual or organization, if those awards are based on talent, dedication, merit, and hard work. At the New Mexico Press Association 2021 Better Newspaper Contest awards banquet in Santa Fe Saturday night, the News-Sun brought home 14 …

EDITOR’S NOTE: News-Sun editor Todd Bailey was diagnosed with an aggressive sarcoma in his left calf in early 2020. In Oct. 2020 Todd had his left leg amputated two inches above the knee in order to fight the cancer. Early last week, while at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston for a medical procedure Todd was informed the cancer had metastasized …

Making an impact on lives is not easy to do, especially when dealing with adolescents and adults suffering from addiction who tend to not like someone constantly staying on them about getting clean and sober. As a drug counselor and ear to those who have been or currently are knee-deep in addiction, Jared Sloan, counselor with the Community Drug Coalition …

LOVINGTON — Written warnings and citations over three years proved insufficient to clean up the property at 201 E. Teague Dr. in the county north of Hobbs. So, the Lea County Commission on Thursday unanimously approved the next step. The commission passed a resolution finding a building and the premises “to be a menace to the public and requiring the …

On Oct. 22, Hobbs Police Department officers arrested Nicolette Dobbins, 30, of Hobbs, on a custodial interference charge that stemmed from charges in Sept. of her allegedly hitting a child in the head with a board — causing a laceration to the child’s forehead and then she threw a knife at the child causing a cut on his back. Dobbins …

Like most of us who have lost a loved one to COVID-19, we do everything in our power to try to keep their memory going. One local resident has attempted to do just that with the grand opening of her baby boutique, Joseph’s Heartland. Joseph’s Heartland is located at 3900 North Lovington Highway and held its ribbon cutting on Saturday. …

Like most of us who have lost a loved one to COVID-19, we do everything in our power to try to keep their memory going. One local resident has attempted to do just that with the grand opening of her baby boutique, Joseph’s Heartland. Joseph’s Heartland is located at 3900 North Lovington Highway and held its ribbon cutting on Saturday. …