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Heath Willingham has lived in Happy Valley since he was born. He enjoyed a peaceful, rural life until about a year ago when several oil rigs went up virtually next door to his home on Harmon Lane. Willingham, 47, said… Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. 📰

Public Article JT Keith | Artesia Daily Press Ayden Gomez is the Boys’ Athlete of the Year

New Mexico’s dismal winter and hot and dry summer are solidifying the fact that we no longer experience wildfire seasons, we live in wildfire conditions. New Mexico’s 19 rural electric distribution co-ops understand this risk better than most. Rural… Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. 📰

Girls Athlete of the Year annouunced.

Public Article JT Keith | Artesia Daily Press Artesia football coach Jeremy Maupin welcomes Layton Whitmire and another Bulldog to the field for warm-ups prior to the Carlsbad football game on Friday. The Pride of the Pecos Valley, the Artesia band, comes to the stadium with drums blazing. The drum line was thumping as it came into Bulldog Stadium for the football game on Friday. The whole band was bringing it on Friday night. Anyone need a trombone player? Here they come.

The state highway department in Pennsylvania once set out to build a bridge working from both sides. When the workers reached the middle of the waterway, they found they were thirteen feet to one side of each other. Albert… Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. 📰

Cal Thomas Golden anniversaries used to be special celebrations in the days when people got married and stayed married. This year marks the golden anniversary, not of a married couple, but of an organization that invests in the lives of… Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. 📰

Starting and growing a business can be challenging, but entrepreneurs in Eddy County do not have to navigate the journey alone. The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Carlsbad provides confidential business counseling, training opportunities, and technical assistance to… Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

The Bulldogs take on the Cavemen in the Eddy County War at the Bulldog Bowl at 7 p.m.

Public Article End 1st Carlsbad leads 6-0, as Brock Wright scored on a 3-yard run with 4:13 left in the period. Extra point attempt no good. The Carlsbad Cavemen and Artesia Bulldogs begin the 2026 football season facing each other in the annual rivalry game that divides both communities for one day a year. Tonight at 7 at the Bulldog Bowl in Artesia both teams square off for football supremacy in Eddy County. Last season both teams made it to the postseason.