Turning investment into impact: Reflecting on JF Maddox Foundation’s 2025 funding initiatives From past experiences, we know when we work together and form meaningful partnerships, our community thrives. 2025 was no exception. This past year, the JF Maddox Foundation had the honor to collaborate with community partners across the county and invest more than $14 million in grants, scholarships, and …

For the News-Sun The JF Maddox Foundation has announced TJ Parks, former superintendent of the Hobbs Municipal Schools, will become the foundation’s interim CEO. The foundation’s current CEO, Ray Caraway, announced his retirement in July. Parks will begin his new role on Sept.1, 2022, prior to the departure of Caraway later in the month. TJ s exemplary career in public …

When it was announced public schools in New Mexico would not be allowed to start with children in the classroom for fourth grade and up, many wondered what effect it would have on students who were basically left to fend for themselves in a new environment. As the school year now enters the fourth month of complete online learning, with …

I believe parents should be given choices regarding the education of their children. As an example, Hobbs Schools lets parents complete out-of-zone applications which allow their children to attend schools in a different part of town than where they reside when space is available. I’ve also been asked my thoughts about parents living in one community and sending their children …

The Badger Natatorium pool was filled one last time. The natatorium’s demolition project on the Hobbs High School campus finished its first phase Wednesday with the permanent fill of the pool. Demolition of the natatorium’s two locker rooms/bathrooms, the concrete deck around the pool and items from the pool’s water pump were dumped into the hollow opening before being poured with a concrete-like liquid that …

COLUMN by TJ PARKS, HMS superintendent Perhaps Mark Twain put it best: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” The quote was used to discredit statistical analysis. All too often we rely on statistics – which we correlate as data – to explain the past and predict the future. The problem is that data is only …

COLUMN by TJ PARKS, HMS superintendent Perhaps Mark Twain put it best: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” The quote was used to discredit statistical analysis. All too often we rely on statistics – which we correlate as data – to explain the past and predict the future. The problem is that data is only …