Soft-spoken Roy Butler: WWII Gunner and POW Jim Harris/Last Frontier A few months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the United States declared war on Japan and the Axis Powers of Europe, 18-year-old Roy Butler took a bus to Lubbock, Texas and joined the US Army Air Corp. Following World War II, Roy worked at several jobs, was …

Harris recognized among recipients of the 2023 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts For the News-Sun Santa Fe, NM – Artists who reflect their people, their communities, and their culture are being recognized among the recipients of the 2023 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. And one of those artists being recognized is Jim Harris of Hobbs. Harris …

LOVINGTON — According to the story, three kinds of people occupy this world — those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who look up from their smart phones and ask “what happened?” But there’s a fourth kind — those who preserve history, who maintain the stories and the evidence, who ensure our children and their …