During her junior year at Hobbs High School, J’Niah Williams played two sports as well as playing in the band. She was a starter on the volleyball team while also playing basketball. Williams helped the Lady Eagles to a 5-1 mark in district play and the top seed in the district. She started out in the middle, defending and blocking …
These are strange times. And strange times call for innovative, creative solutions. The University of the Southwest athletics, facing the heartbreaking possibility of lost seasons due to COVID-19, employed some innovation and creativity, with athletic director Steve Appel arranging for his school’s sports teams to have seasons after all. Sports in New Mexico may be on hold, but New Mexico …
It wasn’t sitting well with Don Gerth. What his high school football coach Doug Ethridge said to Gerth was not sitting well at all. Gerth was a Hobbs High School junior, playing junior varsity football for the Eagles in 1969. Ethridge asked Gerth what he thought his chances were of making varsity the following season. “I go, ‘Uh, I don’t …
HOBBS – Wheels tend to grind slowly in the COVID world, especially when you’re talking about shipping and construction. Over the past nine months, some business owners throughout New Mexico have complained that at times their biggest problem isn’t just hoping the governor will let them stay open, but also getting their supplies from point A, the warehouses, to point …
The name Michelle Lujan Grisham has fallen on some people’s ears with such offense these past several months, it’s been almost like profanity to them. Others say the governor is just doing her sworn duty, trying to keep New Mexico citizens safe when she issues health orders designed to contain the spread of COVID-19. Still others are somewhere in the …
Golf is among the activities that have been on-again, off-again, on-again, thanks to COVID. People in Eunice who use the Eunice Municipal Golf Course like it as an escape, as recreation. In 2021, though, it may cost some of those people more to get that escape, that recreation, as the Eunice golf board has been considering a greens fee hike …
In the five years since Rockwind Community Links has been built, the City of Hobbs has boasted the golf course is one of the best municipal golf courses in the New Mexico and the U.S. And it has the pedigree to prove it. A slew of awards regarding the course’s design and layout have been earned. But now Rockwind is …
Hobbs High School students want to go back to school. They want to get back on the field/court and compete against others. They want to live their lives and they made that known Monday night at a student-led protest that brought around 150-175 people into the stands at Watson Memorial Stadium. “I hope that the governor notices us,” Hobbs senior …
High school athletes across New Mexico got some bad news Thursday afternoon as news broke that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham would not be lifting the 9-to-1 pod restrictions and would not be allowing school sports to proceed. Because of that, the New Mexico Activities Association was forced to cancel the opening weekend of high school sports just three days before …
Two years ago, Yosiguey “Yosi” Trejo was told she had an aggressive form of leukemia. After several forms of treatment and a successful bone marrow transplant, Make-A-Wish gave Yosi a new best friend, a barrel racing horse named Shewee. The young teenager was only 12-years-old when she discovered she was sick and said it was a shock. Being healthy and …
