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  • Taking the next step

    Tonjia Rolan CMI staff writer

    CMI photo: Tony Bullocks Clovis Community College student speaker Courtney Rose Kyle addresses the graduating class Friday night at the Clovis Civic Center during the 26th Commencement Convocation. Nervous, excited, beaming Clovis Community College graduates marched down the aisle of the Civic Center Friday evening, with tassels bobbing to the beat of "Pomp and Circumstance." More than 500 proud parents, relatives and friends packed the house to honor and celebrate the...

  • Taking the next step

    Tonjia Rolan CMI staff writer

    CMI photo: Tony Bullocks Clovis Community College student speaker Courtney Rose Kyle addresses the graduating class Friday night at the Clovis Civic Center during the 26th Commencement Convocation. Nervous, excited, beaming Clovis Community College graduates marched down the aisle of the Civic Center Friday evening, with tassels bobbing to the beat of "Pomp and Circumstance." More than 500 proud parents, relatives and friends packed the house to honor and celebrate the...

  • EPCOG issues no surprise to officials

    Tonjia Rolan CMI staff writer

    Area officials said they were aware of Eastern Plains Council of Governments' failure to comply with federal- and state-mandated annual audits, but believed the benefits of the agency outweighed the problems. The EPCOG board reviewed and approved the first of seven delinquent annual audit reports Wednesday that date back to 2005. The 2005 report concluded that virtually no accurate financial records were kept by EPCOG that year. EPCOG helps county and municipal governments in seven in eastern New Mexico counties with planning...

  • Pitch perfect

    Tonjia Rolan CMI staff writer

    Clovis resident Len Santi was drafted by the New York Giants baseball team in 1940, but Uncle Sam had other plans. Santi, who was raised in New York, came to Clovis with the Air Force and helped build what is now Cannon Air Force Base. Tony Bullocks: Clovis Media Inc. photo On April 10, 2012, Len Santi threw out the first pitch at a Clovis High School baseball game against Roswell. Tell me about your baseball career. I grew up in New York. When I was 12 years old, I used to...

  • Pitch perfect

    Tonjia Rolan CMI staff writer

    Clovis resident Len Santi was drafted by the New York Giants baseball team in 1940, but Uncle Sam had other plans. Santi, who was raised in New York, came to Clovis with the Air Force and helped build what is now Cannon Air Force Base. Tony Bullocks: Clovis Media Inc. photo On April 10, 2012, Len Santi threw out the first pitch at a Clovis High School baseball game against Roswell. Tell me about your baseball career. I grew up in New York. When I was 12 years old, I used to...

  • ENMU celebrates Earth Day

    Tonjia Rolan CMI staff writer

    Students at Eastern New Mexico University ignored the age old advice, "Don't play with your food," Monday, at an Earth Day celebration that featured Frisbees into plates. The students ate an outdoor picnic lunch from green Frisbees and rinsed them off for later use as flying objects. The message, said ENMU's recycling coordinator Kandice Kaiser, is "Go green. Recycle. We have the resources available so there's no reason not to do it." The students were serenaded with original folk music by singer-songwriter Gabrielle Louise...

  • Proud grandmother

    Tonjia Rolan CMI staff writer

    Clovis resident Bobby Neumann III, 25, enjoys an outing with his grandmother, Wilma Dotson, also of Clovis. Wilma Dotson isn't living the life she dreamed of as a child growing up on the farm, but it's a life she's proud of. The Clovis grandmother, who once had top secret security clearance in Washington, D.C., has spent the last 25 years raising grandson Bobby Neumann III, who was born with Down's Syndrome. Dotson and her then 9-month-old grandson, Bobby Neumann III. What's...

  • Proud grandmother

    Tonjia Rolan CMI staff writer

    Clovis resident Bobby Neumann III, 25, enjoys an outing with his grandmother, Wilma Dotson, also of Clovis. Wilma Dotson isn't living the life she dreamed of as a child growing up on the farm, but it's a life she's proud of. The Clovis grandmother, who once had top secret security clearance in Washington, D.C., has spent the last 25 years raising grandson Bobby Neumann III, who was born with Down's Syndrome. Dotson and her then 9-month-old grandson, Bobby Neumann III. What's...