Mass testing event in the works after six more Eddy County residents test positive Thursday

Local officials are submitting a request to hold a community-wide COVID-19 testing event after six additional Eddy County residents tested positive for the virus Thursday.

"We know it's in the community," Eddy County Public Health Nurse Danette Schmid said via phone Thursday morning. "All of us play a role in the prevention of COVID-19, and we at public health will look at ways that we can do a la...