Valerie Scott was entering her third year teaching American Sign Language at Hobbs High School earlier this month when she got some good news. The first-year faculty sponsor of the HHS Student Council was told homecoming was a go for this year. And she was in charge. “I got handed it I guess the first two days of school,” Scott …

Tyana Franklin turned her own love of French macarons into a growing, home-based business. Tyana was just 17 and a senior at Hobbs High School when she got the idea a bit more than a year ago, just before the COVID-19 pandemic reached southeast New Mexico. She would routinely go to the bakery to get her fix of the sweet …