Andy Brosig/News-Sun The opening of the Career Technical Education Center Hobbs created vacancies in several rooms at Hobbs High School that once housed classes and-moved to the new facility. Visual arts is one of the programs which benefitted, giving student artists and their instructor, John McMillan, a new place to call home in the former construction and engineering classroom in …

Andy Brosig/News-Sun Bryan Cheney came full circle when he took over as band director at Houston Middle School in Hobbs some 18 years ago. Houston was where, in seventh grade, he first picked up a set of drumsticks — learning percussion under the tutelage of then band director David Allen. From the start, Cheney said, there was a thrill to …