Sam Cobb, president of RMS Foods in Hobbs, embarked on an energy-saving and clean energy strategy, implementing several modifications to the Hobbs food production facility, as well as adding 1,369 300-watt solar panels to the roof of the plant. “Everything we do is based on trying to conserve energy,” Cobb said on Wednesday while speaking with the Economic Development Department’s …

Marijuana is now, officially, legal within the Hobbs city limits. During its Monday meeting, the Hobbs CIty Commission unanimously approved two city ordinances that changed language to reenforce that fact. Ordinance 1133 adopts Chapter 5.06 of the Hobbs Municipal Code, which legalizes the possession, cultivation, manufacture and sale of cannabis. Ordinance 1135 amends Chapter 9.28 of the Hobbs Municipal Code …

Nadeem Kassis, president and CEO of Kassis Companies, announced last week the sale of the entire ZK Express franchise to Lubbock-based Mighty Wash LLC. Starting in 1999 with a single ZK Express oil change facility on Bender Boulevard at the age of 22, Kassis and his family branched over the years into multiple enterprises, expanding their holdings and businesses throughout …

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 …