KCCC Eddy County Dispatch

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 additional details or to leave a message for the family, visit West Funeral Home’s memorial page:https://westfuneralhomellc.com/obits

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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 home.

In this episode, the community honors the memory of Jaime S. Olivas and Ignacia de la Rosa Villa.

For additional details or to leave a message for the family, visit Denton-Wood Funeral Home’s memorial page:https://www.dentonwood.com/obituaries

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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 Fourth of July weekend in both Carlsbad and Artesia — live music, parades, pickleball, glow mini golf, a watermelon eating contest, a drone show over the Pecos, skydiving, and fireworks by Adobe Rose. Looking further into July: Missoula Children’s Theatre brings Rapunzel auditions to P.R. Leyva, Mayor Lopez’s Read-A-Thon comes to Halagueno Arts Park on July 11th, Carlsbad Community Theatre opens with a melodrama and an ice cream social, the 81st Eddy County Fair runs July 21–25, and Walker Hayes plays the fairgrounds on the 24th. SENMC has a July lineup of workforce and journalism courses as well.

In the Eddy County Quickies Micro-News: Artesia police are investigating a June 28 shooting involving two teenagers on South Second Street. Carlsbad city councilors discussed a proposal to run an oilfield wastewater line through the Cavern City Air Terminal — no vote yet, and it is worth watching. Governor Lujan Grisham signed an emergency order directing state resources to wildfire response. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez has opened a formal investigation into the DEA following reports that federal agents allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills into the state between 2023 and 2025. The Department of Energy is targeting late July for resumption of transuranic waste shipments to WIPP, ahead of a previously reported mid-August timeline. And Artesia’s Dennis Davis, 23 years in the city’s Purchasing Department, retired this week — remembered for his wit, his card tricks, and an encyclopedic knowledge of local history.

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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 Hattie that soft skills come first for a reason — how someone manages themselves under pressure, reads a room, or responds rather than reacts in a tense workplace moment shapes everything else. The class tackles empathy, servant leadership, work-life balance, and what Newton calls the “Triggered” game: real workplace scenarios where participants practice staying grounded when things go sideways.

Day two moves into adaptability, the elevator pitch, and the physical mechanics of confidence — body posture, nonverbal communication, and how to walk into an interview without freezing. The financial literacy section speaks directly to a local reality Newton named plainly: workers entering the oil and gas fields with strong incomes and no framework for managing them. The digital literacy portion covers resume-building, Microsoft Office, and how to use AI tools without losing the human element.

The in-person workshop runs Wednesday and Thursday, July 22 and 23, from 8 AM to 5 PM at Southeast New Mexico College. The online portion begins Monday, July 6, and remains accessible for up to a year. The course fee is $100.

To register or for more information, contact Maria at [email protected] or call 575-234-9268.

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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 community.

In this episode, the community remembers those served by Denton-Wood Funeral Home — recent tributes and memorial announcements for those who lived or died in Carlsbad, NM.

Today, we honor the memory of Terry Lynn Parker, Sammy Porras, and Evelyn Inez Worley.

To read the complete life stories or to leave a message for the families, please visit the official memorial pages.

Denton-Wood Funeral Home Obituaries https://www.dentonwood.com/obituaries

Aired yesterday on KCCC 930 AM Radio and available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and through the Eddy County Dispatch (kccc930am.substack.com) or our website (www.kccc930am.com).

The Eddy County Dispatch, presented by KCCC 930 AM, is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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 community.

In this episode, the community remembers those served by West Funeral Home — recent tributes and memorial announcements for those who lived or died in Carlsbad, NM.

Today, we honor the memory of Antonio Gomez Fuentes.

To read the complete life stories or to leave a message for the families, please visit the official memorial pages:

West Funeral Home Obituaries https://www.westfuneralhomellc.com/obits

Aired on KCCC 930 AM Radio and available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and through the Eddy County Dispatch (kccc930am.substack.com) or our website (www.kccc930am.com).

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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.

Then there’s the news you’ll want to hear in full. A flesh-eating parasite has reached New Mexico’s doorstep, and Carlsbad’s City Council just received a formal briefing on it — what it means for Eddy County’s ranching and dairy families, what to watch for, and exactly who to call. Plus a state surplus tied to global events, road work in Artesia, and a project update or two closer to home.

There’s also a quick look at where to find the record of your local government’s most recent meetings, and the usual check on weather — including the heat heading our way.

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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 championship season actually costs, and what it gives back.

The conversation wanders in the best way. A first-ever trip to Whole Foods turns into a full-blown fruit expedition — a mystery melon that looked more like a dragon egg than anything edible, and a reveal stranger than any of them expected. There’s talk of quenelles becoming an unlikely superpower, of learning to do the exact thing you’re most afraid you’ll ruin, and of what it actually feels like to defend the management side of the house when someone’s face falls at the word “management.”

But the students don’t shy away from the hard parts, either — the early mornings, the late-night equipment orders, the tears of frustration, the disagreements that come when there’s no break and no extra time. They talk about the teamwork math of it all: how a group of strong, very different individuals learns to pull together without butting heads. And one senior reflects on why the program won’t die when this class graduates — there will always be someone coming up behind them.

Running underneath all of it is something teacher Amanda Hale keeps returning to: It has to be theirs.

The skills, the wins, the growth — the program can help them get there, but the students have to pick it up and run.

For anyone who’s ever wondered what these students actually carry home from a competition, this conversation is the answer.

Anyone interested in supporting the Carlsbad High School culinary program can reach Amanda Hale at [email protected], or send a donation check with a letter or memo directed to Culinary Arts via the Carlsbad High School central office.

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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 really went down at the Perron home — from ghostly pranks and paranormal investigators to the kind of supernatural chaos that'll make you rethink your Zillow alerts. Was the house truly haunted...or just in desperate need of a sage smudge and an exorcism-level deep clean?

Listen to the full episode here: https://rss.com/podcasts/twistedandmysterious/2285337

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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 you until it’s over.

The full menu behind the state-winning dish gets unpacked, from a delicate crepe roulotte to a blue corn hush puppy appetizer that almost didn’t survive practice rounds.

Camille opens up about what it felt like watching the culinary team succeed while management’s placement didn’t land where she wanted it to, and the lesson she took from that disappointment.

A conversation about chocolate tempering gone wrong, the techniques nobody warns you about, and what it means to give your best effort even when the outcome doesn’t match the work.

Part 3 of this series airs next Tuesday, June 23rd.

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