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This week’s In Memoriam segment honors those who lived or died in Carlsbad, New Mexico, with an abridged obituary reading from Denton-Wood Funeral Home. Denton-Wood Funeral In Memoriam: Adan Martinez, Silvia Nava Acevedo, Juana Ortiz Gonzalez, Barbara Gayle Moore, Lucia “Lucy” Lopez, Laura Garcia, Danny Bob Knight, Eliseo “Cheo” Moreno Jr., Guillermo V. Hinojos, Charles “Charlie” Don Kierkes Sr.,...

This week’s Mid-Week Matters covers a stretch of triple-digit heat through next week, a busy slate of weekend events, and the countdown to KCCC’s 60th birthday. The show carries an invitation: KCCC 930 AM turns 60 this year, and the station wants listener memories for the Anniversary Oral History Project, with sessions at the Carlsbad Public Library August 8 and 11. Also on the calendar: SENMC’s S...

This week’s Mid-Week Matters covers Eddy County’s ongoing heat wave, a busy slate of weekend events from casting calls to golf scrambles, and the push toward the new school year in Carlsbad, Loving, and Artesia. The Eddy County Health Council hosts a Roadrunner Foodbank food distribution Thursday, July 30, at 3:00 PM at the SENMC Workforce Training Center, 505 Alta Vista Rd. at Lea Street. The sho...

This week’s In Memoriam segment honors those who lived or died in Carlsbad, New Mexico, with abridged obituary readings from West Funeral Home, LLC. West Funeral Home In Memoriam: Consuelo “Connie” D’Oporto, Margie Salazar, Donald “Don” John Barnett, Jesus Vasquez, Margarita F. Villa. These recitations reflect the information available at the time of recording and may not be the most current. For...

This week’s In Memoriam segment honors those who lived or died in Carlsbad, New Mexico, with an abridged obituary reading from Denton-Wood Funeral Home. Denton-Wood Funeral In Memoriam: Patricia Ann Anguish. These recitations reflect the information available at the time of recording and may not be the most current. For detailed, unabridged obituaries, visit Dentonwood.com. Aired on KCCC 930 AM Ra...

In this episode of Community Forum, host Hattie Quinn sits down with teammates Joe Garza and David Baber of the new Eddy County Drone Soccer League. Garza and Baber walk through what it took to get the league off the ground — a marathon training video, fourteen hand-built drones, and hours spent learning to fly them, complete with two very different piloting styles the team now calls "Joe mode" an...

This week: triple-digit heat, the Eddy County Fair, and news from around the community. This week’s Mid-Week Matters, hosted by Endymion, brings Eddy County the latest on a scorching heat wave, the 81st Annual Eddy County Fair, and happenings from around the community. Temperatures climb into the triple digits through the weekend and hold there into next week, with no rain in the forecast. The Edd...

In this episode of Community Forum on KCCC 930 AM, owner Jonathan Chandler sits down with Ann Halford, known throughout Eddy County as the $2-Bill Lady, for a conversation on love, compassion, and community. At 97, Ann reflects on the family history that shaped her, the decades-long tradition of handing out $2 bills that grew out of a Reader’s Digest article, and the two mission trips to Swaziland...

Every life leaves an imprint on the people and places it touches. On this episode of In Memoriam, the community pauses to honor residents who lived or died in Carlsbad, NM, through abridged obituaries provided by Denton-Wood Funeral Home. These tributes offer a moment of collective remembrance, while extended life stories, service details, and spaces for family condolences remain with the funeral...

Community Forum host Johnny Chandler sits down with Dr. Peter Jewell, a primary care family medicine doctor at Artesia General Hospital, known around the community as “the jewel of Artesia General.” Dr. Jewell talks about his path from a career in radio and journalism to medicine, 18 years practicing in Roswell, and what drew him to rural, community-based care in Eddy County. He also opens up abou...

In Case You MIssed It: Eddy County has a busy stretch ahead, and Mid-Week Matters rounds up what’s worth knowing (that we can find) — from family events and library programs to a few pieces of news that might catch residents off guard. SENMC is launching a new Eddy County Drone Soccer League this fall, WIPP’s Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System is now operating after final regulatory...

Community Forum host Johnny Chandler welcomes back Joe Gurrola, chief operating officer of Artesia General Hospital, and Kush Ghadial, the hospital’s director of public relations, both returning to the show for the first time in about two years. The conversation covers the hospital’s $30,000 sign-on bonus for new nurses, a new family medicine residency program launching with Texas Tech, and a mobi...

Every life leaves an imprint on the people and places it touches. On this episode of In Memoriam, the community pauses to honor residents who lived or died in Carlsbad, NM, through abridged obituaries provided by Denton-Wood Funeral Home. These tributes offer a moment of collective remembrance, while extended life stories, service details, and spaces for family condolences remain with the funeral...

Community Forum picks back up with Paul Gessing of the Rio Grande Foundation, recorded in the same sitting as Part 1. This half turns to Albuquerque’s gross receipts tax fight, a minimum wage debate tied to inflation, and the rise of data centers in New Mexico — including Project Jupiter and the role produced water could play in powering them. Missed Part 1? It’s linked below. Aired on KCCC 930 AM...

Eddy County has a busy stretch ahead, and Mid-Week Matters rounds up what’s worth knowing (that we can find) — from family events and library programs to a few pieces of news that might catch residents off guard. Carlsbad Caverns National Park has a new way to watch its bat colony, oil and gas production numbers put Eddy County at the center of the state’s economy, and a proposed reclamation facil...

Community Forum host Johnny Chandler welcomes Paul Gessing, president of the Rio Grande Foundation, into the studio for the first time in person — and the conversation doesn’t hold back. Part 1 digs into the fallout from New Mexico’s recent primary election, the state’s oil-and-gas-fueled budget surplus, and a wave of business owners weighing whether to leave New Mexico altogether. Part 2 airs Thu...

Every life leaves an imprint on the people and places it touches. On this episode of In Memoriam, the community pauses to honor residents who lived or died in Carlsbad, NM, through abridged obituaries provided by West Funeral Home. In this episode, the community honors the memory of Donald “Don” Barnett, Adan Montez Ortega, Candelario Flores, Brenton Lee Rutherford, and Priscilla Faye Ortiz. For a...

Every life leaves an imprint on the people and places it touches. On this episode of In Memoriam, the community pauses to honor residents who lived or died in Carlsbad, NM, through abridged obituaries provided by Denton-Wood Funeral Home. These tributes offer a moment of collective remembrance, while extended life stories, service details, and spaces for family condolences remain with the funeral...

It’s Independence Day week in Eddy County, and Mid-Week Matters has the holiday weekend forecast, upcoming events from today through mid-July, civic notices, and micro-news from across the region. The heat is coming, fireworks conditions look good, and a lot is happening between now and the Fourth. Events this week open with a free family movie this afternoon at La Cueva 6 Cinema and run through a...

Community Forum welcomes Shannon Newton, the new Life Skills instructor for community education at Southeast New Mexico College. The conversation covers a three-part course she’s built from the ground up — and why she believes the skills it teaches are ones most people had to figure out the hard way. The program is divided into soft skills, financial literacy, and digital literacy. Newton told Hat...

This week, the Eddy County 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 co...

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’s Mid-Week Matters is packed. The days ahead are full — senior center bake sales, a golf tournament with the Mayor, three thousand rubber ducks hitting the water for a very good cause, and a calendar’s worth of summer reading programs at both the Artesia and Carlsbad libraries. And looking further out, the Fourth of July is shaping up to be something special as America marks 250 years. T...

In Part Three of the culinary series, Community Forum continues the discussion with three Carlsbad High School ProStart students — Camille, Avery, and Myka — for a wide-ranging conversation about the year behind the program’s state championship sweep. Camille competed on the management side; Avery and Myka on the culinary team. What unfolds is less a victory lap than an honest look at what a champ...

Today on KCCC930AM Radio, and available weekly in your inbox. Before The Conjuring made audiences afraid of antique furniture, the Perron family actually lived that horror movie. Their “dream farmhouse” in Harrisville, Rhode Island, came with creaky floors, creepy ghosts, and (allegedly) a witch named Bathsheba who did not come with the deed. This week, Sarah and Faren continue digging into what r...