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AGH Celebrates Rehab & Surgical Tech Employees

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AGH Celebrates Rehab & Surgical Tech Employees

Surgical Technologist Week

Happy National Surgical Technologists Week!<n><n>This week, (Sept 15-21) we honor the skilled hands and sharp minds of Surgical Technologists, the unsung heroes of the operating room. From preparing the instruments to ensuring a sterile environment, their precision and attention to detail are crucial for every successful surgery. They work side-by-side with surgeons, nurses, and the entire medical team, playing a vital role in patient care and outcomes.<n><n>Let’s take a moment to thank these incredible professionals for their dedication, expertise, and commitment to saving lives every day!

Rehab Week

Join us in celebrating Rehab Therapy Week this week at Artesia General Hospital! Our dedicated physical, occupational, and speech therapy team helps patients regain strength, mobility, and independence in their everyday lives.

Guest Editorial: To See or Not to See

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Guest Editorial: To See or Not to See

To see, or not to see, that was the question for the federal judge. And he got it right, despite deep opposition from the office that administers New Mexico’s elections.

In a democratic republic, we all get to see who is on the voter rolls. It’s not a privilege of the elite and powerful, or a lifestyle of the rich and famous. It’s public record, just like property tax records, and that’s why it’s so disappointing our secretary of state spent years standing in the way of voter registration transparency.

For time immemorial, local political operatives, party bosses and candidates themselves have ventured to their county clerk offices to obtain voter registration lists.

Some want the names and addresses of every registered voter in the county or of several precincts. Some want the names and addresses of every registered voter under 40 years old. Some want the names and addresses of every registered voter who is under 40 years old and who has voted in the last two or three Democratic or Republican primaries. Some want the names and addresses of everyone who in the last two years has registered to vote in New Mexico for the first time.

And they’ve gotten it, without a court order, because voter registration rolls are public record. All that has been required has been a written request and a signed affidavit that the information would only be used for government/election purposes.

In the old days, candidates and political parties purchased reams of sticky-backed labels with the names and addresses of voters to affix onto campaign mailers. Costs were minimal, usually limited to the costs of the paper and the labels and the ink. Technology has made that unnecessary. Today, a thumb drive or email attachment will do.

Technology has also made the online publication of voter rolls possible. But the Old Guard doesn’t like the Average Joe having access to the keys to the kingdom. Some feel only the elite and powerful should have access to such sensitive information.

And late last month they got busted.

U.S. District Judge James O. Browning of Albuquerque ruled on Aug. 30 that the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office unconstitutionally discriminated against a nonprofit group by withholding publicly available voter data. Browning further- more ruled that Democratic Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver acted with “viewpoint discriminatory purpose” by withholding the voter data.

As Gomer Pyle might say, “Shame, shame, shame.”

New Mexico’s top election official has been battling with the Voter Reference Foundation for years, at untold legal costs, while championing her office as a model of transparency.

Now, Toulouse Oliver has a stinging federal ruling saying she unconstitutionally discriminated against a group based on its ideology and her own.

Browning noted New Mexico law doesn’t prohibit any organization from posting voter data online. That was a critical element in the federal lawsuit against the secretary of state. We’re all entitled to see voter data online, just as we are if we venture to our local county clerk’s office.

We get that having your name and address publicly available can be disconcerting for some. But exercising the right to vote comes with some civic duties and downsides, like an increased likelihood of being called for jury duty, or a mailbox full of campaign mailers many of us are about to be besieged with. Getting called for jury duty can be very inconvenient and political mail can get annoying, but we get over it. And the Voter Reference Foundation has implemented safeguards on its online database such as a “safe haven” exception for victims of domestic violence.

Judge Browning properly balanced that with the right of ordinary citizens to monitor voter registration rolls and point out anomalies. His ruling was a huge win for transparency in New Mexico, and the big- gest setback of Toulouse Oliver’s political career since she was defeated by Republican Dianna Duran in 2014.

Toulouse Oliver has got Donald Trump living rent-free in her mind and has lost her objectivity. When Trump was president, she said she would not release any voter information to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in 2017 “unless and until I am convinced the information will not be used for nefarious or unlawful purposes, and only if I am provided a clear plan for how it will be secured.”

It wasn’t her data to withhold. It was all of our data, and she still doesn’t get that, even though she’ll end up as the longest serving secretary of state in New Mexico history because her two latest four-year terms were preceded by finishing the last two years of Duran’s term. Toulouse Oliver was even the Bernalillo County clerk before that. She should have known better.

The state, of course, plans to appeal Judge Browning’s decision, and run up more legal costs in the pursuit of voter info suppression. It’s either that or concede a statewide elected officer unconstitutionally discriminated against a group based on its political viewpoints.

Nonetheless, Toulouse Oliver is clearly on the wrong side of history and the Constitution. She and her staff contended that disseminating voter data online would violate state election law and jeopardize “voter privacy as well as the fact that the data could be misread and also manipulated.”

But Browning correctly wasn’t buying the “spread of misinformation” argument.

The defendent’s true rational for withholding the data is the Defendants’ belief that Voter Reference disseminates ‘misinformation’ via its website, VoteRef. com,” the judge’s 77-page ruling stated. The secretary of state “subjected Voter Reference to individual treatment on the basis of the Defendants’ animus towards Voter Reference’s viewpoint — specifically, the fear that giving the data to Voter Reference may reveal that the Secretary of State is lax about maintaining the state’s voter data.”

Browning noted Toulouse Oliver’s office fielded requests for voter data from Democratic, Republican and Libertarian parties in 2021 and 2022, and from other groups in early 2021. But her office objected when the Voter Reference Foundation published voter data online it had received from a group named Local Labs.

Toulouse Oliver even sent a criminal referral — which thankfully has no legal bearing —to the state attorney general for investigation and prosecution of personnel of Local Labs and VRF after her office learned of the VRF’s initial posting of New Mexico voter data in December 2021.

Browning issued a permanent injunc- tion barring Toulouse Oliver “from engaging in any future viewpoint discrimination” against Voter Reference Foundation, and awarded the nonprofit fees and costs incurred in the lawsuit first filed in 2022.

“This withholding is without precedent — no other requester of New Mexico voter data has been denied access to voter data after submitting the properly completed affidavits,” the judge wrote. “Once the government makes information avail- able to some, it cannot condition the receipt of the voluntarily disclosed government information on a requester’s viewpoint.”

All of this could have been avoided if Toulouse Oliver had performed the duties of her job without political bias, or “viewpoint discriminatory purpose,” as the federal judge put it. Now, taxpayers will have to pick up the tab.

With New Mexico in its rear-view window, Voter Reference Foundation can now focus on other states to complete its mission of providing free voter registration information for all 50 states at VoteRef. com. Check out the free site, look up the party affiliation of a school board member or the author of a editor to the editor, see if a co-worker or a neighbor who can’t stop talking presidential politics is even registered to vote.

You’ve always had that right. Now it’s easily accessible, despite our top election official.

“Our system of government is based upon citizen participation,” states the home page of VoteRef.com. “We believe the people, in effect, own this data and have a legal right to see it in an understandable and transparent form. Let freedom ring.”

Let it ring, indeed.

This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board.

Artesia students awarded OSU scholarships

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Artesia students awarded OSU scholarships

By Sophia Fahleson

STILLWATER, Okla. – On Sept. 4, two Eddy County students were honored by the Oklahoma State University Ferguson College of Agriculture with academic scholarship support for the 2024-2025 academic year.

These scholarships are part of the more than $1.8 million that students receive from the Ferguson College and its academic departments. Students from all areas of study are considered for university scholarships, which can be combined with college and departmental opportunities.

“We are proud to support new students as they begin their academic careers in the Ferguson College of Agriculture,” said Cynda Clary, Ferguson College of Agriculture associate dean of academic programs. “We look forward to seeing the contributions they will make within our college and at OSU. We are grateful for our donors and friends who support these scholarships and our students.”

 

The 2024-2025 scholarship recipients and hometowns:

 

Bryce Bain

Artesia

Agricultural Economics

Joseph Fleming Memorial Freshman Scholarship

 

Braden Fuentes

Artesia

Animal Science

Joseph Fleming Memorial Freshman Scholarship

 

The Ferguson College of Agriculture believes in the value of hands-on education and the importance of having a well-rounded student experience. The college’s award-winning faculty members are dedicated to developing students and are passionate about adding value to the total educational experience. With 16 majors, a variety of study options and more than 60 student organizations, the college is committed to expanding minds and inspiring purpose. Learn more at agriculture.okstate.edu

Yeso Elementary RecognizesTop 10 Ticket Sellers

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Yeso Elementary RecognizesTop 10 Ticket Sellers

 

Congratulations to these hardworking students who did so well in the school’s annual fundraising drive.

            Yard of the Week

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            Yard of the Week

  Native Artesians, Jason and Amanda Lamb, have resided at 1813 W. Centre for eight years. In that time, they have created their own park like setting with boxwood shrubs, mums, iris, rose bushes, bee balm, crepe myrtle and more. 

Those are just some of the plants that are included in the greenery along the front of the house.  And of course no porch can be complete without chairs, hanging pots of succulents and the American flag which all welcome you to come and sit a spell. Congratulations to the entire family for a most inviting setting

Meals With Wheels

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Meals With Wheels

Wheeler Cowperthwaite

This apple upside down cake, topped with honey, is the perfect desert for fall.

Each year, fall ushers in the apple season, which will last and last — and if you keep the picked apples cool and dry — it will last some more, long enough to get to the holidays.

Each year, I try and find a new way to do something with apples. There are crisps and crumbles, cobblers and pies, but sometimes you run across something different that makes you stand up, take note, and say “hey, I’m going to do that this year.”

Recently, a friend introduced me to an apple cake that absolutely blew me away, so much, in fact, that it will be presented for copious consumption at all in-season parties, stretching at least to Thanksgiving.

The idea is simple: an apple upside down cake. But the proof is in the fresh apples, the use of honey and a caramel topping that will eventually seep into the cake.

Apple cake is associated with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, which comes in October. I think this cake is perfect for that time of the year, as the weather begins to turn cool. This cake has many of the hallmarks of the holidays: sugar and spice (ginger, cinnamon, consider cardamom and other holiday spices as well) and generally, everything nice.

There are a few notes for dealing with the cake: First is getting it out of the pan after it has baked. It is important to loosen the edges and let it cool before putting a serving plate on top, flipping it, and hoping it comes out smoothly.

Second, I use parchment paper to line the 9-inch cake pan. While I still grease the parchment paper, I find it much easier than baking the cake directly in the pan.

When it comes to baking the apples upside down, choose firm, tart apples, this allows them to be a contrast to the sweetness of the honey and hold up as the cake bakes above them. I prefer Granny Smith, but other varieties are Mutsu, Winesap and Honey Crisp.

When the cake comes out and is ready to be flipped, it and the topping should have a nice caramel color.

Upside Down Honeyed Apple Cake

Ingredients

Honey apple layer

2 apples, cored and sliced thinly (peeling optional)

1/3 cup honey

6 tablespoons butter

¼ cup granulated sugar

½ teaspoon vanilla

Cake

8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter

1½ cups white flour

1½ tsps. baking powder

1 tsp. cinnamon

½ tsp. ground ginger

1 tsp. salt

½  cup granulated sugar

½ brown sugar (firmly packed)

¼ cup honey

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1/3 cup milk

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Honey apple layer

Line a 9-inch round cake pan with parchment paper and spray with oil/grease. Lay the apples down in a spiral.

Melt the 6 tablespoons of butter in a small saucepan. Turn the heat medium high and add the honey, granulated sugar and vanilla. Cook for about 3 minutes, stirring frequently, until the mixture looks frothy and is a little thickened. Pour the mixture over the apples, making sure there is even distribution.

Cake

In a medium bowl, mix both types of sugar and butter until well combined. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt, and then mix into the bowl of sugared butter.

In a separate bowl, mix together the vanilla, eggs, milk and honey. Slowly combine the wet mixture with the butter and flour until well combined.

Spread the batter over the apples in the cake pan.

Bake for 40-45 minutes until golden. A skewer pushed into the center should not be wet, but may not be clean because of the apples. The cake will bounce back when lightly pressed. Do not over-bake.

Allow the cake to cool for 15 minutes.

After it has cooled, run a knife around the edge of the cake, then place a serving platter on top. Flip the platter and the pan together and carefully remove the pan.

Recipe adapted from Carina Wolff in Good Mood Food and The Butter Lab.

Wheeler Cowperthwaite is a former cops/courts reporter for the Rio Grande SUN.

Lady Bulldogs fall in Hobbs

Michael Smith
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Lady Bulldogs fall in Hobbs

JASON FARMER
NEWS-SUN

HOBBS – In 2002, Harrison Ford started in a historical submarine movie named “K-19: The Widowmaker”. Tuesday night in Tasker Arena, Kyndle Cunningham didn’t make anyone a widow, but the senior volleyball player who wears jersey

No. 12 sure racked up a lot of kills. By the time Lady Eagles had beaten Artesia, there were a ton of K-12s in the scorebook.

Savannah Stockton-Gonzales, the Lady Eagles coach, was excited to see her team come away with the victory in a five-set match.

“It is always exciting when you get to go to those five-set matches,” she said. “You get to see if your girls can really battle for that long. It was about two hours and they can battle it out with the best of them. I am really excited to see where the season takes us.”

The Lady Eagles dropped the opening set, falling 25-23, but bounced back to win the second set 25-21. Hobbs dominated the third set, winning by a score of 25-7. The Lady Eagles then dropped the fourth set, falling 25-19, but won

the deciding fifth set 15-13.

“Artesia is a good ball club. Coach Williams does a really good job over there,” Stockton-Gonzales said. “We know that they are always going to be pretty sound, but after this last weekend, we have kind of gotten into a really good groove and found a new rotation that is working out for us.”

Cunningham, who has moved into a setter role with Hobbs following an injury to Annette Rey, finished the night with 14 kills. Seven of her kills, and one of her two blocks, came in Hobbs’ dominating third set.

“We moved her to the other setter position,” Stockton-Gonzales said, “and she is doing a really good job of putting it where our hitters can hit it as well. It hurt when Annette (Rey) got hurt, our other setter, but Kyndle stepped up and is doing a really great job.”

In Hobbs’ two losses, the Lady Eagles battled all the way to the end.

“We have done a really good job of if we are behind, when somebody else has game-point, we have really been able to battle back,” the Lady Eagles’ coach said. “So, don’t put us out when you get game-point. Don’t expect us to just roll over and give it to you. We are going to battle back and try to take it from you as much as we can.”

Facing game-point in the first set, the Lady Eagles trailed Artesia 24-18. While they still lost, the Lady Eagles scored five points after Artesia reached game-point, losing 25-23.

Then, in the fourth set, Hobbs trailed 10-3 before battling back to a 12-11 deficit. Artesia countered, putting the Lady Eagles in a 19-11 hole, but Hobbs once again battled back, closing the gap to 19-16 before eventually losing.

But, even at the end, the Lady Eagles didn’t give up. With Artesia looking at game-point, leading 24-18, the Lady Eagles scored once more before falling 25-19.

“I’ll give it to Artesia,” Stockton-Gonzales said of the fourth set. “They had their block on us and we were not ready. They just kept blocking us. We were quite covering their hitters and their block was really on it.”

“That was probably our most impressive game,” the Artesia coach said. “I know we won Game No. 1, but that Game No. 4 was a great game for us.

By winning the fourth set and evening the game at 2-2, Artesia forced a winner-take-all fifth set.

“I was really proud of them coming back in game four and just really competing after playing so bad in game three,” Artesia coach Alan Williams said. “Game four was just a great game for us.”

After losing the opening set, the Lady Eagles bounced back and won the second set, taking in 25-21. Hobbs jumped out to a 2-0 lead and never trailed on its way to evening the match at 1-1.

The third set was interesting as Hobbs and Artesia traded points early on. While the Lady Eagles never trailed, they didn’t take their first two-point lead until going up 5-3. Artesia had several service errors during the early part of set three that kept the game close.

After Artesia closed the gap to 8-6, the Lady Eagles went on a 13-point run. The Lady Eagles got the first point after taking the serve away from Arteisa. Then, with Ellie Lentz serving, the Lady Eagles pushed their lead to 21-6.

During that time, Cunningham recorded four kills and a block. Jayla David also had two kills and a block during that run.

“Ellie Lentz was serving and she did a really great job for us,” the Lady Eagles’ coach said. “That kiddo has struggled the past couple of weeks on her serve, but tonight, she found it and I am so proud of her. She was on it and she was picking on that little libero over there and they couldn’t handle it. She did a really good job and I am proud of her.”

Artesia finally ended Hobbs’ run, but the damage was done as Hobbs held a commanding 21-7 lead. The Lady Eagles also got the serve right back, closing out the set with a four more points for a 25-7 win and a 2-1 lead in the match.

Tied 2-2, the Lady Eagles and Lady Bulldogs had to play a deciding fifth set.

During the final set, Hobbs and Artesia again traded points early, but it was Hobbs who took the first real lead, going up 7-3 and 8-4. But it was short-lived as Artesia not only battled back, knotting the match at 8-8, but also

putting Hobbs in a two-point deficit at 10-8. The Lady Eagles were able to knot the set at 10-10 and never trailed again, winning 15-13.

“Don’t count us out. We are going to battle back. We are going to fight and we are going to try and take it from you,” Stockton-Gonzales said. “I think that is the difference between last year and this year, we have more grit. We are going to go after it. It doesn’t matter if we are down 10-2 or up 10-2, we are going to battle for every point.”

“We had our chances here in game five,” the Artesia coach said. “We just missed our last two serves and you cant do that when it is 13-12 or 14-13.”

David finished the night with 13 kills and two blocks while Brianna Dunlap had four kills. Zayla Mitchell recorded four aces and a kill while Isabella Miller had three kills and three blocks. Anaya Vaughn also had two kills and a block.

With the loss, Artesia falls to 5-2 on the season. Next up for the Lady Bulldogs is a trip to Carlsbad on Tuesday. Game time is set for 6 p.m.

“Other than the one (set) where we didn’t show up, it was a battle both ways,” Williams said. “I really thought we played well. (The third set) was really an anomaly compared to the rest of the match.”

Williams spoke highly of senior Hattie Harrison’s play Tuesday night.

“Hattie Harrison had a great game outside,” the Artesia coach said. “She had a fantastic game. I think this was probably the best game I have seen her play. I am proud of her.”

With the win, Hobbs is now 2-0 at home and 4-6 on the season. The Lady Eagles will be back in action on Thursday when Centennial (3-3) comes to town for a 5:30 start at Tasker Arena.

Bulldogs open league play with home win over Deming

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Bulldogs open league play with home win over Deming

By Mike Smith
Artesia Daily Press

An enthusiastic home crowd and an electrifying return of the opening kickoff set the stage for Artesia’s 64-27 thumping of the Deming Wildcats Sept. 13 at the Bulldog Bowl.

For Artesia, it was the first home game since the Aug. 23 season opener when the Bulldogs defeated Carlsbad 44-7 in the 2024 Eddy County War.

The Bulldogs lost road contests at Hobbs, 44-40, on Aug. 30 and at Las Cruces Centennial, 70-39, on Sept. 7.

Artesia put the Wildcats on notice at the start as Matthew Conn received the kickoff then handed off to Bryce Parra, who outran every Deming defender for a 90-yard touchdown and a 6-0 lead 15 seconds into the game. Deming thwarted Artesia’s two-point conversion attempt.

The lead stayed 6-0 until the 4:47 mark of the opening period when Quarterback Izac Cazares ran three yards to the end zone after setting up the score with a 57-yard pass to Parra.

Another two-point try failed and Artesia’s lead was 13-0.

The Bulldogs scored again at 11:52 of the second quarter when Cazares threw a 36-yard touchdown strike to Conn. Corbyn Dominguez converted the extra point to stretch the lead to 19-0.

Dominguez made it 22-0 with a 28-yard field goal. As the half wound down, a 75-yard Conn kickoff return for a touchdown sandwiched between a pair of TD runs by Deming’s Ryan Alfaro led to a 29-12 Artesia lead at the intermission.

The Bulldogs outscored Deming 14-7 in the third period with Cazares and Frankie Galindo adding touchdown runs. Artesia finished off the thrashing in the fourth quarter with Cazares throwing a 39-yard TD pass to Galindo and Galindo scoring on a 1-yard run before Grant Johnson ran back a blocked punt for a touchdown. Dominguez kicked the extra point to give Artesia a 64-27 lead and an important victory in District 5-2A play. The Bulldogs’ record now stands at 2-2 overall and 1-0 in district play.

“Proud of our guys coming out and getting better last week,” said Artesia head coach Jeremy Maupin. “That’s the goal each week, to get better, and we did that.”

Anthony Gadsden will visit the Bulldog Bowl at 7 p.m. Friday (Sept. 20) for homecoming and another district contest.

Scoring Summary:
1st Quarter

11:45-Artesia-Bryce Parra 90-yd kickoff return, 2 point conversion no good 6-0.

4:47-Artesia-Izac Cazares 3-yd touchdown run, 2-point conversion no good 13-0.

2nd Quarter

11:52-Artesia-Cazares 36-yd touchdown pass to Ethan Conn, Corbyn Dominguez kick good 19-0.

7:11-Artesia-Dominguez 28-yd kick, Artesia 22-0.

5:41-Deming-Ryan Alfaro 38-yd touchdown run, kick no good. 22-6.

5:24-Artesia-75-yd kickoff return, kick good 29-6.

:06-Deming-Alfaro 2-yd touchdown run, 2-point conversion no good 29-12.

3rd Quarter

9:41-Deming-Cole Donaldson 42-yd touchdown reception, Max Allison kick good. 29-19

8:01-Artesia-Cazares 10-yd touchdown run, Dominguez kick good 36-19.

5:05-Frankie Galindo 9-yd touchdown run, Dominguez kick good 43-19.

4th Quarter

11:57-Deming-Isaiah Pizzaro 5-yd touchdown run, Alfaro 2-point conversion run good 43-27.

8:42-Artesia-Cazares 39-yd touchdown pass to Galindo, Dominguez kick good 50-27.

6:40-Artesia-Galindo 1-yd touchdown run, Dominguez kick good 57-27.

4:14-Artesia Grant Johnson blocked punt td, Dominguez kick good 64-27.

Offensive Stars of the Game:

Passing:

Izac Cazares: 8/11, 207-yards, 2TD, 0 Int

Rushing:

Frankie Galindo: 11 carries, 133-yards, 2 TD

Izac Cazares: 9 carries, 66-yards, 2 TD

Receiving:

Ethan Conn: 2 catches, 52-yards, 1 TD

Bryce Parra: 1 catch, 57-yards

Defensive Stars of the Game:

Miguel Soto: 14 tackles

Grant Johnson: 9 tackles, 2 TFL

Ayden Huffman: 9 tackles

Mike Smith may be reached via phone at 575-308-8734 and follow on X @MSmithartesianm

It’s time for Red Dirt Black Gold!

Adrian Hedden
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It’s time for Red Dirt Black Gold!

By: Morgan Fox, 
Executive Director, Artesia MainStreet
Event Coordinator, Red Dirt Black Gold

Dear Artesia Community,

As the Executive Director of Artesia MainStreet and event coordinator for Red Dirt Black Gold, I am thrilled to invite you to one of Artesia’s most exciting events! Mark your calendars for Saturday, September 28th, as downtown Artesia comes alive with music, celebration, and community spirit.

Red Dirt Black Gold is not just a music festival; it’s a tribute to our rich oil heritage and love for live music. Starting at 4 PM and running into the evening, this year’s lineup promises an incredible mix of Red Dirt country music and a festive atmosphere. Entry fee is $10 for adults ages twenty-one and up, while all others are free. Presale tickets are available at www.reddirtblackgold.com.

RDBG is moving to MainStreet to take this festival to the next level. Please note that Main Street will be closed to traffic on Friday, September 27th at 1:00pm – Sunday, September 29th at 8:00am from 2nd to 7th Streets.

Come early for a day of shopping with craft vendors along the 200 Block and MainStreet boutiques: Butterfield Trail Mercantile, Bennie’s Western Wear, The Foxy Frog, The Hanger, The Brave Co., and Martha’s.

Activities will include RDBG Car Show hosted by the Artesia Car Enthusiasts, Pickleball Tournament at Heritage Plaza, Red Dirt Fun Run hosted by Artesia Arts Council, food trucks, kid-friendly zones, and interactive booths showcasing our local businesses and sponsors.

Of course, the heart of the event is the live performances, with talented musicians ready to take the stage and rock downtown Artesia. Lineup includes Jade Throneberry & Asher Wall, Charlie & the Rangers, Tell Runyan, Matt Castillo, and headliner Pat Green taking the stage at 9 pm.

We are proud to celebrate our community and the industries that fuel it, and we look forward to seeing you all at Red Dirt Black Gold 2024!

See you there!

Infant found dead in Eddy County

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Infant found dead in Eddy County

Adrian Hedden
El Rito Media

Editor’s note: This is a developing story. Stay with the Artesia Daily Press for updates.

An infant reported missing last month was found dead Sept. 6 in a remote area of Eddy County.

The Eddy County Sheriff’s Office reported last Friday (Sept. 13) that the remains were found in a remote area on State Road 137, also known as the Queen Highway.

Eddy County Sheriff’s Lt. Kane Wyatt said police were investigating the case as a homicide.

“Whenever we start a death investigation, we conduct it as if it’s a homicide until it is determined not to be a homicide,” Wyatt said. “It’s a death under suspicious circumstances.”

The infant was first reported missing to the Carlsbad Police Department Aug. 30, police said. Police notified the Eddy County Sheriff’s Office of a lead indicating the remains could be outside city limits.

The Sheriff’s Office took over the investigation at that point and  deputies found human remains later identified as an infant by the Office of the Medical Investigator.

Police did not immediately reveal the gender of the child or other identifying information, a potential manner of death, or the circumstances surrounding the initial missing person report.

The Artesia Daily Press requested a copy of the police report from the Sheriff’s Office under the Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) but had not received the report by press time.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Eddy County Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Edward Aranda at 575-887-7551.

Tips can also be submitted to Eddy County Crimestoppers at 575-887-1888 or 844-786-7227, on eddycountycrimestoppers.com or on the mobile app P3 Tips.

Adrian Hedden can be reached at 734-972-6855, achedden@currentargus.com or @AdrianHedden on the social media platform X.

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