LOVINGTON — Lovington City Commission meetings have been animated lately, and the specially called meeting Thursday night was no exception. Commissioners, several of whom had been in various meetings most of the day at city hall prior to the scheduled meeting, greeted a standing-room-only gallery of people in commission chambers. Only commissioner Bernard Butcher, District 3, was not in attendance …

So many questions, not enough answers. The City of Hobbs Commission held a work session Monday to discuss the proposed city ordinance on the possession, cultivation, manufacture and sale of cannabis. While Hobbs City Attorney Efren Cortez and his staff compiled and presented a PowerPoint presentation on the potential impacts the industry could have on the city, many supporters of …

LOVINGTON — According to the story, three kinds of people occupy this world — those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who look up from their smart phones and ask “what happened?” But there’s a fourth kind — those who preserve history, who maintain the stories and the evidence, who ensure our children and their …

LOVINGTON — Coming back from a chaotic year, pandemic restrictions, an oilfield decline and mandated closures, the Lovington City Commission approved the city’s Annual Financial Report for 2020. State auditor De’Aun Willoughby presented before the commission the city’s annual financial audit for the fiscal year 2019-20 and the commission approved the resolution to accept it. This audit was conducted by …

JAL — While the N.M. Department of Transportation engineers improvements to NM 128 traversing through the City of Jal, a second project to develop a relief route continues after almost three years of discussion and study. Although the NMDOT is involved in both highway projects, neither has yet received funding for construction and both remain in the study and design …

Residents let their feet do the talking to help find a cure for dementia, Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias kill more people in the U.S. every year than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined, Tim Sheahan said Saturday. Sheahan, the executive director for the Alzheimer’s Association, New Mexico chapter, said walks across the country like the one that happened …

It was the start to a new beginning for Pharmacy 575 owners Mark Poling and John Mezger as they held their ribbon cutting on Thursday. Pharmacy 575 is located at 305 E. Sanger in Hobbs. Poling burst into tears as he was welcomed by Hobbs various organizations. “Forgive me if I start crying,” Poling said. “This whole process for us …

EUNICE — The Eunice City Council appointed Carlos Herrera, owner of Herrera’s Oilfield Services, LLC, to the council Monday. Herrera fills a vacancy on the eight-member board, a vacancy created when former Councilor Gonzalo Luna became the city’s assistant director of public works earlier this month. “Councilman Luna resigned. He’s now a city employee. By law he cannot be a …

LOVINGTON — If you thought things were busy for Lovington MainStreet before, it wants you to know it is just getting warmed up. LMS board members took two opportunities within a week to speak publicly about ongoing projects. Treasurer Rose Munoz and board member Patrick Alexander made a presentation and request to the Lovington City Commission at the special work …

LOVINGTON – Lovington residents have been having issues with receiving high water bills due to a “system error” and when residents have called the water department to address these issues, the city tells them their bill is high due to a leak, not ever really giving residents a valid explanation of why their bill was so high. According to a …