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City of Carlsbad: Working on smooth transition from NMSU Carlsbad Dale Janway At some point in the next few weeks, you may receive a call from someone wanting to ask you a few questions about Carlsbad’s college going independent. This is not a scam call or any solicitation- a community survey about the college is an important part of the upcoming transition into Southeast New Mexico College. We encourage you to participate in this survey and share your feelings on this issue. Your answers will help our college, our higher education task force, and the state’s Higher Education Department all formulate a plan for a smooth transition. We certainly appreciate ideas about what classes and services can be offered by the new college and look forward to these future opportunities.
We’ve had many people ask us about what is going on off Skyline Drive at the northernmost part of town. Local developers are putting in what’s called the Skyline Drive Commercial Subdivision, with Phase 1 to include nine new commercial lots near the entrance to Skyline off of Pierce Street. Phase 2 will include up to 40 single-family residential lots as well as additional commercial lots along Pierce Street. We’re very excited about this growth. Congratulations to developers Trey Hughes, Clay Wilson and Scott Branson. The City of Carlsbad is also adding a sidewalk to the area from Lowe’s to Skyline Drive for the safety of the many workers.
Superintendent of Hobbs Municipal Schools TJ Parks said the bond between communities in southeast New Mexico might prove the cure to the long, drawn out months battling COVID-19. The first case of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was identified in New Mexico in March 2019, prompting Parks, Carlsbad Municipal Schools (CMS) Superintendent Dr. Gerry Washburn and Artesia Public Schools (APS) Superintendent John Ross Null to deepen communication to work on behalf of their respective cities. Our communities have an awful lot in common. We have much more in common than we would from somebody in northern New Mexico. We share ideas, concerns and I think we ve had to come together because we re kind of all alone out here and I think without each other it would be more difficult to survive what we ve gone through, Parks said.
Carlsbad Municipal School District announced students at Carlsbad High School would return to a virtual learning environment only, as the school grapples with 13 cases of COVID-19 among staff and a shortage of substitute teachers. On Feb. 26, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Gerry Washburn alerted the public that 12 teachers and one substitute had entered quarantine as a result of the virus. Due to the severe shortage of substitute teachers we have made the difficult decision to return the high school to remote learning temporarily, he wrote. The remote learning began March 1 and extended to all grade levels of the high school. Though Carlsbad High School did make the New Mexico Environment Department COVID-9 watchlist with two rapid responses noted, the school was not ordered closed by the state, which requires four or more rapid responses to be considered for closure.