The Hobbs News-Sun is a daily
newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
published Tuesday through Sunday in
Hobbs,
New Mexico
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, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
, featuring news, sports and other features of interest to readers in
Lea County.
The News-Sun was the result of a merger between two of the many local newspapers that appeared in Hobbs in the 1930s, following the region's oil boom at that time. Competition fell away until only the News-Sun and the Hobbs Flare remained.
The Flare was sold to Golden West Free Press in 1993 and was sold to Sun Publishing of Lake Charles, La., in December 1996. It was closed in December 1997. Sun Publishing also owns the Hobbs News-Sun.
History
The rival paper ''Flare'' was founded in 1948 by Agnes Kastner Head, the wife of a candidate for mayor, because ''Hobbs News-Sun'' did not want to publish ads for her husband's campaign.
American poe
Dave Oliphanthas written in his memoir, ''Harbingers of Books to Come: A Texan's Literary Life,'' that his letter to the editor ''Hobbs News-Sun'' in 1969 led the list of top ten news stories of the newspaper for the year. Oliphant was employed at the
New Mexico Junior College
New Mexico Junior College (NMJC) is a public junior college in unincorporated Lea County, New Mexico, near Hobbs.
History and campus
New Mexico Junior College first opened in the fall of 1966. With a current enrollment of 3,375.
The campus is ...
(in Hobbs) during the late 60's and had legal issues with the college and the town of Hobbs, and one of the ''Hobbs News-Sun editors'' testified against him in a trial.
References
External links
Hobbsnews.com
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Newspapers published in New Mexico