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 …

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 …