ANDY BROSIG/NEWS-SUN Christmas looks a little different this year in Hobbs. The decorations that for decades have festooned utility poles along the main thoroughfares in the city are gone, replaced on the ground by lighted reindeer, snowmen and more, interspersed with strings of bright white lights wrapped around the trunks of trees. “I don’t understand,” said Dwayne Penick, District 5 …

The City of Hobbs Planning Board approved an action item during Tuesday’s regular meeting for the annexation of 82 acres located along Grimes St., southwest of the intersection of Millen Dr. and Grimes St. The annexation is in anticipation of a future subdivision to be built. “As it sits right now this is just the annexation of raw land and …