Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, I was a newly minted warehouse supervisor for a farmers cooperative.
I can remember almost exactly where a customer’s truck was parked when I overheard him telling one of my co-workers something or another about a plane crash up north.
A few minutes later, I received an urgent (landline) phone call from my wife. She had been watching NBC’s “Today” show a...