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 …

EUNICE — Longtime City Councilman Terry Bettis believes the City of Eunice and the city council violated both the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of the State of New Mexico last year. In a complaint filed on Sept. 10 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, Bettis’ attorneys asked for a declaratory judgment that the defendants …

EUNICE — After a brief scare, Dr. Porkchop and his brother Baloo likely will get to stay with their human family. With more than 2,300 signatures attached to her online petition between Monday and Wednesday and the City’s promise to work with Pork-chop’s owner Katrina Turner of Eunice appears set in Turner’s efforts to keep her pet Potbelly Pigs, also …