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STAFF REPORT A semi tractor-trailer collided with a pickup truck Thursday on Mabry Drive near Sugar Beet Road, according to Clovis Police Department. According to Capt. Patrick Whitney, a semi tractor-trailer turned left heading southbound onto Sugar Beet Road in front of an eastbound Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. The truck struck the semi tractor-trailer's rear axles, which deployed the driver's airbags. No one was seriously injured in the crash, according to Whitney. “The airbag deployed on his arms, and the driver o...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] Eastern New Mexico University’s Future Farmers of America club will be hosting their first annual Ag Olympic Events Saturday at the Lewis Cooper Rodeo Arena. The event gives students a chance to sign up as teams and compete for prizes in farm-style contests, including a calf scramble, goat roping, hay bale toss, wheelbarrow race and tug of war. “We’re hoping the event will serve as a fundraiser and help get the word out about our club,” said Dani Castro, FFA vice president. Steven Chumble...
DEPUTY EDITOR [email protected] When Clovis residents spot the northern exterior wall of the Hotel Clovis, they now see a pioneer woman looking towards the east. Artist Drew Merritt no longer sees a blank canvas. The Clovis native recently finished a mural, and Merritt and Texas Tech PBS affiliate KTTZ plans to interview him for a segment to air in mid-June. Merritt answered a few questions Wednesday via phone between a flight to another job in California. You grew up in...
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The following is a sampling of calls received by dispatchers for Clovis police, Curry County sheriff and area fire stations Wednesday May 6. • 3:20 a.m.: Failure to comply with conditions of release, 200 block of Circle Drive. • 5:27 a.m.: Criminal damage, 2800 block of Harrison Avenue. • 8:02 a.m.: Motor vehicle accident without injuries, 900 block of Prarieview Drive. • 8:33 a.m.: Failure to comply with conditions of release, 200 block of north Pile Street. • 9:05 a.m.: Domestic in progress, 2200 block of east 14th Stre... Full story
Staff Report Bovina Independent School District’s board of trustees election is 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Bovina EMS Building, 109 Third Street. Four candidates are running for two positions on the board including: Chris Antillon, George Villarreal, Justin Brozek, and Jerry Rocha.... Full story
Staff Writer [email protected] The Clovis High School Air Force Junior ROTC unit is the only one in New Mexico to receive the Distinguished Unit Award for 2014-2015, according to a release from Clovis Municipal Schools. The award recognizes the personal growth and accomplishments of the cadets, contributions of the instructors as mentors, and the support of the school and local community, according to the release. The unit has received the award every year since it was renamed from the honor unit award in 2000, said Maj....
link Audra Brown In the constant quest to keep cattle (and other livestock) contained, the gate is a crucial component. In the best of times, the great swinging gate holds the line. In some places, the gates of doom hang over our head with the threat of well-weighted assistance, and elsewhere, the gates of air and aluminum swing freely in the breeze. But here in Realsville, not all gates swing so well. Many will never swing, and even some will never even truly be gates. Some are not even gates at all. Gates rigged out of pall... Full story
link Judy Brandon Columnist By: Judy Brandon The ancient Proverbs 31 woman of the Bible amazes me. She was a multi-faceted, multitalented superwoman. Everyone praises her and even her children “rise up and call her blessed.” I am far from her on many levels. She had business sense. I don’t. She bought and sold land; I’ve done neither. I don’t sew or mend things like socks. I own no business and I am not in the city government. But she and I do have one thing in common; we are...
link Amos the Church Mouse Illustrated by Gary Mitchell Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard keys, but he can’t operate the capital shift, and he shuns punctuation marks – except dashes and hyphens. amos meets a frog-herding lizard although it s getting warmer boss all this rain in recent days has me contemplating the idea of turning my little matchbox home into a houseboat-on-a-raft but more than that it feels like we ve stepp...
