Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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More than 100 eastern New Mexico residents packed the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Library Tuesday to get educated about the lesser prairie chicken and what it means to the region. The bird is native to New Mexico, as well as four other states, and has been identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a candidate for federal listing as a "threatened" species. According to the USFWS, the lesser prairie chicken is of high interest because the species faces a number... Full story
Clovis' Ariel Kokoricha performed perfectly onstage in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. However, the Clovis Christian School sixth-grader to be will not be advancing to today's semifinals because she did not earn enough points in a formula that combined Wednesday's onstage rounds with a computer test that included a section on vocabulary for the first time. Forty-two competitors will go on to participate in the semifinals, and those who are successful will go on to the finals. "She did great," said her mother Oyin. "I saw... Full story
Cheese industry professionals from all over the world descended on Clovis this week to learn about United States cheese production and operations at Southwest Cheese. Visitors from Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Egypt, the Philippines, and Lebanon toured the cheese plant and a local dairy, and also attended several educational sessions. "This is a cheese buyers' mission," explained Dan Duran, director of international sales for Glanbia Foods, parent company of Southwest Cheese. "These people represent large cheese-processing...
