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There's nothing that I'm more fond of in fashion than mixing and matching accessories with old and new fashions. Here are some trendy favorites that have taken notice this season and why they are the cool factor for fall: Layering necklaces — Low-cut blouses and plunging necklines could not have a better fix than the layering of necklaces. A delicate choker mixed with a few braided chains is a timeless look and is always stylish. Charm necklaces, beads and Casablanca chains a...
Information on decorating a monthly planner, quilting with heavier fabrics and making your own soaps will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.) Marjolaine Walker is the owner and designer of Twelve Stones Scrapbooking. She’s going to show how to decorate a monthly calendar page with stickers and scrapbooking supplies. She’ll also show how to make a dashboard with an inspirational message. To do l...
LUBBOCK — For the fourth-straight match, Eastern New Mexico University’s volleyball team went five sets. But, for the first time in three matches, the Greyhounds came out on the losing end. Though they had a 2-0 set lead in Saturday’s match against Lubbock Christian, the ‘Hounds dropped three straight, losing the match 25-22, 25-18, 19-25, 22-25, 13-15, which ended their winning streak at two and dropped their record to 2-6. Eastern began Saturday’s match strong, with Alexis Aguirre tallying six assists, four digs and one k...
Fate, they say, is fickle. Fate in football can sometimes be fabulously fickle. So it is with the return of quarterback Brock Osweiler to the Denver Bronco’s locker room this week. He’s back where he really wanted to be all along and he’s being paid what he and his agent thought he was worth, he just got it all along with the title backup quarterback. The Broncos drafted the lanky signal caller in the second round of the 2012 draft and he was anointed as heir apparent as Ge...
TATUM — The Dora Coyotes lost for the first time this season in a high-scoring game at Tatum that featured seven lead changes in just the first quarter. The final lead change belonged to Tatum, which went on for a 69-44 victory. “It just kind of seemed like we never got off the bus in some ways,” Dora coach Mason McBee said. “Everything that could go wrong did.” McBee added that the loss was a humbling experience for the team and will give them something to work on at practice this week. Dora could not stop Tatum’s d...
MIAMI — Florida prepared for deadly winds and life-threatening storm surge from Hurricane Irma Saturday by asking 700,000 more residents to leave their homes in advance of a storm that already has killed at least 20 people as it moved through the Caribbean. Irma was poised to emerge from northern Cuba Saturday afternoon and head through the warm waters of the Florida Straits. From there, it is expected to intensify, and then cross the Keys for a potentially catastrophic d...
BOISE, Idaho — Storms brought cooler and wetter weather into the Western and Northwestern U.S. this weekend, breaking up a temperature inversion that had blanketed much of the region with acrid smoke from dozens of wildfires. Officials at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said Saturday they expected fire activity to decrease over the next several weeks. Center spokeswoman Kari Cobb says air quality should improve as the smoke-trapping inversion breaks up. “We should see it lifting more today,” she said Satur...
“Hi. This is Ray.” At this point, I know this is not a legitimate call. I know two Rays: • Ray Mondragon with the Eastern Plains Council of Governments. I’ve always known him as Raymond. • Our newspaper’s former publisher, Ray Sullivan. We always got along despite our opinionated natures, but we are not the kind of people who called each other to say hi. This Ray is clearly up to no good. “I’m with the New Mexico firefighters, and ...” And *click* ... well, it’s a cell phone, so there’s no click. Instead, it’s an unsa...
Since exotic trips to Dallas, Albuquerque and Galveston are usually beyond my means, small trips become mini-vacations. Over Labor Day weekend, I traveled to Levelland in West Texas to visit Chance, my former black wiener/Lab foster dog. Leaving Portales at 6 a.m. to arrive by 9 a.m. to greet a cable guy scheduled between then and 1 p.m., Chance’s barking woke me up when the dude arrived at 4:30 p.m. Between Dora and Morton, Texas, I read a sign about Buffalo Soldiers (...
As expected, the Trump administration announced Tuesday it will phase out the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. It protected from deportation nearly 800,000 young immigrants who as children were brought here illegally by their parents. Although the DACA rollback was announced by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump said in a statement, “… I am not going to just cut DACA off, but rather provide a window of opportunity for Congress to finally act.” That window is six months long, after...
David Stone plans to look back and remember as usual on Monday. But the James Polk Stone Community banker in Portales also is looking ahead. “Back after World War II, America got up and we picked up our heads and went on with life united,” Stone said. “Nowadays we as American people forget how to reunite with one another and (are) quick to label each other.” And so Stone plans to focus his annual 9/11 ceremony — scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Monday outside the bank at 109 E. Second St. in Portales — on the future. “After 9/11...
Bob Anderson remembers hearing football coaches in Muleshoe complain about Bobby Field in the mid 1960s. “We’ve got the best quarterback in the state living here and he’s playing in Farwell,” Anderson laughed as he remembered the conversation. Actually, Field grew up in the West Camp community, southeast of Farwell, near the line that separates the Panhandle school districts. That wasn’t the last time somebody wished Field played for their team. After graduating from Farw...
On this date ... 1972: Kathy Calder, a 16-year-old student at Friona High School, made the news for being the first female student in her school’s history to sign up for a vocational agriculture class. The Clovis News-Journal reported that the junior, who dreamed of being a veterinarian, was “introducing women’s liberation into the Friona High School campus.” Calder, who grew up on a farm, had “convinced the high school administration that she was genuinely interested in agriculture,” the story said. Her instructor...
PORTALES — A proposal to reduce out-of-state tuition will be heard at Thursday’s Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents meeting. The change, according to a letter accompanying the proposal by ENMU President Jeff Elwell, will reduce tuition for out-of-state students from 203 percent of in-state tuition to 150 percent. Elwell noted in the letter that out-of-state students “paid an average of $13,819 more than their in-state peers” in 2014 and 2015. Also at Thursday’s meeting, set for 9:30 a.m. in the Zia Room of the Ca...
DALLAS — Two decades ago, Harris County planners predicted with chilling accuracy just how devastating a storm like Hurricane Harvey would be to the Houston area. Far lesser storms, they determined, could wreck a large swath of the city and its western suburbs. In a report dated May 1996, engineers for the Harris County Flood Control District concluded the area’s reservoir system was severely insufficient and imperiled thousands of properties. The report’s authors proposed a $400 million fix: constructing a massive undergroun...
PORTALES — The final preparations were made Friday before the trial of a Portales man accused of sexual assault. Roy Brown, 29, is accused of breaking into a woman’s home two miles south of Portales in June 2016 and attacking her as she slept. His trial begins 9 a.m. Monday. Judge Donna Mowrer responded to a motion by Brown’s attorney Gokul Krishna Sripada by ordering a state witness — a sexual assault nurse who examined the woman — not to testify as to the cause of her injuries. Sripada asked that the witness not testify as...
PORTALES - The annual Portales Rams Junior Varsity Volleyball Tournament is a much-anticipated event for many local players who have yet to crack the varsity lineup at their respective schools. This year, eight teams - including Portales, Goddard, Roswell and Texico all competed in the tournament, held this past Friday and Saturday at Portales High School. The goal of the tournament is not only to develop young players, but also, to showcase them. Rams junior Abby Brown, who...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory, Clovis Sunday: 2 p.m. gospel sing Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, noon pinochle, 1 p.m. line dance, 5 p.m. business meeting, 5:30 p.m. potluck, 6 p.m. social night Tuesday: 8 a.m. quilting, noon pinochle 101, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 6 p.m. musical Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. sewing, 1 p.m. crafts Thursday: 8 a.m. blood pressure, 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 8:45 a.m. board meeting, 8:45 a.m....
Beta Phi Six members, Collene Baldwin, Laura Loflin, Patsy Lorenz, Royce Lorenz, Beverly Miller and Suzy Moore, along with guest Wendy D. J. Slaughter, attended the Beta Phi meeting at Collene Baldwin’s home. A potluck lunch was served. Royce Lorenz received his first pearl and Collene Baldwin received her 35-year pin. Curry County Retired Educators Introduced by Andrea Bigelow, Mr. Tommy Knight shared his extensive background and experience working with the homeless vet population through AmVets, WorkForce, CCC, and ENMU. H...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Breakfast pizza. Lunch — Spaghetti w/meat sauce, garden salad, mini carrots w/ranch, orange smiles. Tuesday: Breakfast — Donut. Lunch — Turkey and cheese croissant, veggie dippers w/ranch, fresh apple, oatmeal cookie. Wednesday: Breakfast — Frudel. Lunch — Mac and cheese, seasoned green beans, veggie slices w/ranch, seasonal fresh fruit, whole wheat roll. Thursday: Breakfast — Waffle. Lunch — Chili cheese fries, fresh broccoli w/ranch, seasonal fresh fruit. Friday: No school - Parent...
Les Ciancio lived in Oklahoma as a young boy until his family went to Fort Sumner on vacation to visit the Billy The Kid Museum. His father found work in the area in the early 1990s which brought the Ciancio family to Clovis. Ciancio graduated from Clovis High School in 2003. Today, he enjoys coaching his son's football, baseball and basketball teams. He is a board member with Clovis Baseball Association, CBA, and partner in the Red Zone League. Following baptism at Our Lady o...
Officials at Hurlburt Field in Florida on Saturday evacuated their airplanes to Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas. The action came hours before Hurricane Irma began to batter the southern part of Florida. Hurlburt's website reported aircraft would remain at Little Rock "until the potential for bad weather is over," according to a news release from the 1st Special Operations Wing public affairs. Most military personnel at Hurlburt were not evacuated. "After extensive analysis of the path of the storm by Hurlburt Weather...
AMARILLO — Xcel Energy is sending 36 workers from Texas and New Mexico to assist with power restoration efforts in Florida after Hurricane Irma passes through. An Xcel news release said workers from Clovis and Roswell will be among those traveling to the Tampa, Florida, area early this morning. In all, Xcel will send about 200 workers from across its eight-state service area to assist those battling power outages caused by Hurricane Irma. Crews are expected to be deployed for about two weeks, according to an Xcel news r...
Monday • Clovis Master Water Assurance Plan District 2 meeting — 6 p.m. at Fellowship Hall (east side entrance) Living Stones, 1800 N. Norris St. • Portales School Board — 6 p.m.-9 p.m. in the board room, 501 W. Abilene. Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday • Connecting to Expertise — 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. mixer to bring local non-profit agencies together with faculty from Eastern New Mexico University. ENMU Campus Union Building-Sandia Room, Portales. Information: 575-769-2103 • Clovis Master Water Assurance Plan District 1 me...
Today • Zoo music concert — 4 p.m. Clovis Community Band plays at Hillcrest Park. Enter at Sycamore entrance. Admission: Free. Information: 575-799-1448 Monday • 9/11 Memorial Service — 7:30 a.m. at James Polk Stone Community Bank, 109 E. Second St., Portales. • 9/11 Memorial Service — 9 a.m. at American Legion Post 25, 2400 W. Seventh St., Clovis. Information: 575-799-3382 • Produce to the People — 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Memorial Building in Portales. Bring your own bags. Information: 575-359-1048, extension 1 Tuesday • Aft...
