Fourth of July in Eddy County — Events, News, and 250 Years

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. 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 (http://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. Already a subscriber? A one-time donation goes just as far. Get full access to KCCC Eddy County Dispatch at kccc930am.substack.com/subscribe (https://kccc930am.substack.com/subscr...)