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Carlsbad High's state-champion teams sat down with Hattie again — this time with management competitor Camille Martin, and culinary team members Avery Padilla and Micah Char, alongside instructor Amanda Hale. The team breaks down exactly what goes into a ProStart competition — the rules, the roles, and what it’s actually like to pitch a fictional restaurant to judges who can’t say a word back to y...

It's a scorcher out there, Eddy County. A Heat Advisory is in effect through 9 PM tonight, with highs reaching 108°F, so check on elderly neighbors, keep pets and livestock hydrated, and never leave anyone in a parked car. Full details on this week's forecast and fire danger are in the episode. This week's lineup runs from book clubs and toddler splash time to a golf tournament for the Boys & Girl...

Carlsbad High School didn’t just win a state title this year. They won two — culinary and management, the first time CHS has swept both ProStart categories in the same year. Hattie went straight to the source: the Mountain Lion Studio hit the road to the CHS Culinary Arts Department the day after school let out, sitting down with instructor Amanda Hale and two of the students who helped get them t...

This week, the Carlsbad community pauses to reflect on the lives of residents who have recently passed. These abridged records serve as a respectful tribute to those who helped build and shape the local area. While these summaries offer a moment of collective remembrance, the full life stories, service details, and spaces for family condolences are maintained by the funeral homes serving our commu...

This week, the Carlsbad community pauses to reflect on the lives of residents who have recently passed. These abridged records serve as a respectful tribute to those who helped build and shape the local area. While these summaries offer a moment of collective remembrance, the full life stories, service details, and spaces for family condolences are maintained by the funeral homes serving our commu...

It’s hot, it’s busy, and a lot is going on in Eddy County this week. Today’s Mid-Week Matters covers a CavernFest-packed weekend at Lake Carlsbad Beach Park — free admission, live music, a 5K, a volleyball tournament, and a yoga class before the vendors even open. There are also free family events at the library and Cavern Theatre, a Father’s Day dance for the 40-and-up crowd, and a plant swap for...

Community Forum | Tuesday, June 9, 2026 There’s a lot happening in downtown Carlsbad right now, and Denise Green, director of Carlsbad Main Street, stopped by the Mountain Lion Studio to break it all down on Communnity Forum . From a beach stage headliner to a neon alley project funded by the Creative Industries Division, the organization that quietly powers much of what makes downtown worth visit...

ICYMI due to our post-monsoon technical issues at noon: Today’s Mid-Week Matters is here! Mid-Week Matters is live for Wednesday, June 3, 2026 — covering Eddy County from Artesia to Carlsbad and everywhere in between. This week’s event calendar is stacked. The Rumble on the Pecos Car Show kicks off Friday with a cruise, a free screening of American Graffiti , and a full judging day Saturday. Caver...

Hannah Ornelas has been doing this work long enough to know that the kids in the room might look like they’re not listening. She keeps going anyway — because if even one of them walks up to her at Walmart ten years from now and says it changed their life, that’s enough. On this episode of Community Forum, host Hattie sits down with Hannah from Teens in Action — the youth arm of the Carlsbad Anti-G...

This week, the Carlsbad community pauses to reflect on the lives of residents who have recently passed. These abridged records serve as a respectful tribute to those who helped build and shape the local area. While these summaries offer a moment of collective remembrance, the full life stories, service details, and spaces for family condolences are maintained by the funeral homes serving our commu...

This week, the Carlsbad community pauses to reflect on the lives of residents who have recently passed. These abridged records serve as a respectful tribute to those who helped build and shape the local area. While these summaries offer a moment of collective remembrance, the full life stories, service details, and spaces for family condolences are maintained by the funeral homes serving our commu...

With the June 2nd primary one week away, Hattie Quinn sits down with Eddy County Clerk Cara Cooke — who has worked in the Bureau of Elections since 2007 — for a conversation about process, not candidates. How does a candidate get on the ballot? What happens when your ballot goes into the tabulator? Why do two locks with two different keys matter? Cara walks through all of it — same-day registratio...

Hattie brings this week’s community roundup from Carlsbad, the seat of Eddy County — what’s happening around the area, micro-news that affects your daily life, and a special community corner honoring Southeast New Mexico College’s inaugural Mountain Lion Student of the Month class. This week’s events run from a grand opening ribbon cutting and free summer movies at La Cueva to a veteran resource f...

Paul Gessing, president of the Rio Grande Foundation, joins Johnny Chandler on Community Forum to discuss the constitutional lawsuit challenging Governor Lujan Grisham's universal free childcare program, the decline of New Mexico's film subsidy industry, and a federal school choice tax credit currently awaiting the governor's decision. Recorded ahead of the June 2nd primary. Get full access to KCC...

Bestselling author and legal thriller legend William Bernhardt joins Book Crew hosts Dirk Hooper and Beth A. Freely for a conversation about his newest book, The Superman Wars — a narrative nonfiction account of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel's decades-long battle for recognition and ownership. Bernhardt also reflects on his own journey as an author of more than sixty books, the ethics of the pu...

This week, the Carlsbad community pauses to reflect on the lives of residents who have recently passed. These abridged records serve as a respectful tribute to those who helped build and shape the local area. While these summaries offer a moment of collective remembrance, the full life stories, service details, and spaces for family condolences are maintained by the funeral homes serving our commu...

This week, the Carlsbad community pauses to reflect on the lives of residents who have recently passed. These abridged records serve as a respectful tribute to those who helped build and shape the local area. While these summaries offer a moment of collective remembrance, the full life stories, service details, and spaces for family condolences are maintained by the funeral homes serving our commu...

Christina Mann, the Bee Lady, returns to Community Forum to discuss the near-complete takeover of Eddy County by Africanized killer bees, the disappearance of European honeybees, the absence of USDA bee inspections in New Mexico, and a 2024 fatality at an oil field site she believes was preventable. Recent callouts include a swarm at Christian Prep Academy and a wasp emergency at Slaughter Cave. C...

Memorial Day weekend is almost here, and Eddy County has a full slate — from foam parties to flag placements to a free concert festival at the lake. This week's Mid-Week Matters also has an Eddy County Quickies Micro News segment that ranges from WIPP records to a local case that landed on national television . The weekly events listing runs from today through June, with Memorial Day observances,...

Real estate is likely the single largest transaction most people will ever make — and Eddy County has someone in the field who understands it from the inside out. In this Community Forum, host Johnny Chandler sits down with Dominic Longoria, associate broker for Century 21 Associated Professionals and president of the Carlsbad Board of Realtors, for an honest conversation about buying, selling, an...

Today at noon and 11 PM on KCCC 930 AM Radio. In May 2005, Natalee Holloway vanished during her senior trip to Aruba — a vacation that was supposed to be all beaches, pina coladas, and flip-flops, not one of the most infamous missing persons cases in modern history. Last week, we began the story. This week, Twisted and Mysterious brings it home. In Part II of this episode, we continue digging into...

Draft2Digital announces a one-time $20 activation fee for new accounts and a $12 annual maintenance fee for authors earning under $100 in yearly book sales. Barnes and Noble Press implements a 100-title limit per account effective May 14, 2026. Dirk and Beth break down what both changes mean for indie authors and map out the full landscape of self-publishing platforms available in 2026. Get full a...

This week, the Eddy County community pauses for a special tribute — an extended remembrance of a man whose life became inseparable from the story of the region he served for more than nine decades. In this special edition, the community honors Robert “Bob” H. Forrest — former mayor, businessman, rancher, philanthropist, and inductee of the Dale Janway Hall of Fame — who passed away Tuesday, May 12...

Southeast New Mexico College is launching something new this fall — and it’s been a long time coming. Instructor of Business Raymond Dominguez and Dr. Luis Anchondo, Director of First Year Experience and Foreign Languages, sat down with Johnny Chandler on Community Forum to talk about the college’s first-ever bilingual English and Spanish business course, why it exists, and who it’s really for. Th...

BODY COPY: Mid-Week Matters is live for Wednesday, May 13, 2026 — bringing you the best of Eddy County from the North Rim to the state line. It’s one of those weeks where almost every day has something going on. From free comedy tonight in Artesia to a brunch DJ, a ladies retreat, a golf scramble, a plant swap, and Field of Dreams on the big screen — the events slate has real range. There’s also a...