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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Dorothy M. Lenhart Have been held. Dorothy M. Lenhart, 83, of Colorado Springs, Colo. died on Friday, May 27, 2005, at the Pikes Peak Hospice Residence. She was born April 30, 1922, in Alamogordo, to the late Earl Spencer and Inez Priscilla (Newsom) Callens. She married James Kenneth Lenhart on Jan. 4, 1944. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her brother, Donald Callens of Tucumcari. She is survived by her husband; a daughter, Sharon Mahnke; a grandson, Aaron Mahnke Sr.; two great grandsons, Aaron Mahnke Jr....
The Associated Press Military aides for New Mexico’s U.S. senators and Rep. Tom Udall were analyzing information released Tuesday by the Pentagon to back up its recommendations to close military installations across the nation, including Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis. Glen Loveland, spokesman for Udall, D-N.M., said he didn’t expect comments on the documents Tuesday. Congress is in recess until June 6. Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Pete Domenici, R-N.M., were among lawmakers who urged President Bush to make sure inf...
PORTALES — Call it shopping at home, but for a worthy, entertaining and educational cause. The 29th annual KENW-TV Tele-Auction will take over the area airwaves June 6 through June 11 as 2,000 items are auctioned, ranging from $5 “Steal of the Night” items up to a vacation for two to London. Through its biggest fund-raiser of the year, KENW hopes to raise at least $80,000 to help pay for the PBS station’s programming which includes the long-running children’s classic, Sesame Street, as well as NewsHour With Jim Lehrer an...
Plains Regional Medical Center officials said the emergency room handles about 36,000 patients every year. (Staff photo: Marlena Hartz) Dressed in pink scrubs, emergency room admittance officer Traci Garcia is often the first person to greet patients at the Plains Regional Medical Center. Scanning rows of empty tan seats Tuesday in the recently renovated PRMC emergency waiting room, Garcia said the center is bucking the national trend when it comes to emergency room overcrowding. “Sometimes we do get a little wait,” said Gar... Full story
The strategic team formed to help save Cannon Air Force Base from closure by the Pentagon came together Tuesday for the first time. Comprised of local groups, state groups and three paid lobbying firms, the strategic team set up shop at Clovis Community College and began divvying up responsibilities. “That group and members of that group will be working together over the next several days as well as the next several weeks to finalize the presentation to the (Base Realignment and Closure) commission on June 24,” said Ran... Full story
Clovis May 27-29 — Hoopla 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament at Hillcrest Park. May 30-June 4 — Pioneer Days. Contact: 763-3435. June 4-5 — CSA Pepsi Challenge Softball Tournament. Contact: www.cloviscsa.com June 11— Clovis Fire Department Poker Run. Contact: TBA June 11-12 — 5th Annual Myers Electric "Lil Custom" Youth Softball Tournament. Contact: www.cloviscsa.com June 18 — Clovis Juneteenth Extravaganza, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at Potter Park. Contact: Barbara, 762-7254 or Candice,762-4037. June 22-25 — Mesa Redondo Cowboy Camp M...
Dominic Murphy was sentenced to a minimum of 60 years in prison Tuesday for the killings of Alex Rodriguez, 29, and Wesley Griest, 39. (Staff photo: Eric Kluth) Dominic Murphy showed no emotion Tuesday when he was sentenced to two life terms in connection with the 2003 shooting deaths of two Clovis men. He will have to serve 60 years in prison before being eligible for parole, according to state law. Murphy, 26, of Clovis, was convicted by a Curry County jury in January of what prosecutors called the “execution style” kil...
WARSAW, Poland — Allen Iverson is looking down on me. The tour bus is rolling along a busy street here in the Polish capital when suddenly there’s the Philadelphia 76ers star, staring with attitude from an athletic shoe ad on the side of a skyscraper. Welcome to the United States of Poland. At least, that’s the way it feels sometimes, what with all the Pizza Huts, McDonald’s, Mars bars, J.Lo, Levi’s, and billboards of American pop icons like Iverson and rapper 50 Cent. And...
The Supreme Court ruled May 23 that to compel people to support its propaganda with which they disagree does not violate the First Amendment to the Constitution. The First Amendment is the one about everyone having the right to freedom of speech. Yes, the court acknowledged, no one may be coerced into funding some private party’s advertisements or related speech. But when the government or some part of it decides it will proselytize for something, it can make us all fund it. Justice Scalia, writing for the majority in the 6...
Editorial Only three things make Arizona Sen. John McCain recognizable as a Republican these days: • He continues to stand out as a critic of congressional pork-barrel plundering, true to the GOP’s all-but-abandoned claim to being the fiscally responsible party. • He remains hawkish on most defense and foreign policy matters. • And an upper case R can be found next to his name in news stories. Beyond that, for all intents and purposes, the once “conservative” McCain has drifted into the liberal camp and today has more in com...
As May ends and June begins, the Portales City Pool is filled with children enjoying the start of summer. The swimming pool has been open since Thursday and many children have started going to the swimming pool. Tessa Smith, assistant director, said it was slow for the first few days when it was cloudy, but once the clouds went away and the skies cleared, the city swimming pool was busy. Smith said advertisements for lifeguards went out a month before May 26. She said hiring took a place a couple of weeks before the pool... Full story
They’re cunning. They’re clever. And they’re everywhere. The critters in question are the coyote — and area hunters revere them as some of the smartest varmints they have ever met. Roy Tivis of Portales recalls sitting out on a hunt with his usual partners, sons Rodney and Richard, and calling a coyote with the distress signal — a plastic whistle that imitates the sound of an injured rabbit. “The next thing I knew, a coyote jumped right over the top of me,” he said. They are also known to circle the hunter — like a shark, s...
CLOVIS — The strategic team formed to help save Cannon Air Force Base from closure by the Pentagon came together Tuesday for the first time. Comprised of local groups, state groups and three paid lobbying firms, the strategic team set up shop at Clovis Community College and began divvying up responsibilities. “That group and members of that group will be working together over the next several days as well as the next several weeks to finalize the presentation to the (Base Realignment and Closure) commission on June 24,...
Dominic Murphy showed no emotion Tuesday when he was sentenced to two life sentences in connection with the 2003 shooting deaths of two Clovis men. He will have to serve 60 years in prison before being eligible for parole, according to state law. Murphy, 26, of Clovis, was convicted by a Curry County jury in January of what prosecutors called the “execution style” killings of Alex Rodriguez, 29, and Wesley Griest, 39, over a drug debt. Murphy’s lawyer and mother maintained his innocence during Tuesday’s sentencing phase of th...
Transitions Birthdays: Tammy Lee. Anniversaries: Nelson and Rose Rector (53 years); Colin and Tammy Chandler (11 years); Fred and Laveta Patterson (39 years). Upcoming events • Lions club will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Community Building. • Seniors will meet Thursday for games and fellowship. Potluck is at 6 p.m. and games begin at 7 p.m. • There will be a fire meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. at the firehouse. Heritage days The Roosevelt County Heritage Days Festival is coming up in June. An added feature this year will...
All around the Milnesand area has had rain and hail the past week. Elton Parkinson just to the north of the store had about two-and-a-half inches of rain and quite a bit of marble size hail. To the south a couple miles Barbara and Wiley Teel got about three-and-a-half inches of rain and more and larger hail than at her parents home. Church special The Milnesand Baptist Church is to have a special worship minister and his wife will be in charge of the morning worship Sunday. Bro. Mark and Debbie McCloud and his nephew,...
Unsettled weather has been around most of the week, but so far sprinkles to light showers is about all our area has received. However, on over west on the Elida/Dora state road, around the Harding Burris place, they received a lot of damage from hail and some rain. Several of our local people have been gone for this weekend, some of them to the area where they grew up and they attended memorial services there today. Accidental injury James Newberry had an operation last week to have a knee repaired he hurt in a recent fall....
You learn something new every day, or at least that’s what the optimist likes to tell you. The pessimist viewpoint, and the one I’m taking today, is that you get a new disappointment every day. It might be big, like finding out you got turned down for that home loan. It could be medium-sized, like knowing that the special “team meeting” at work was called because of a mistake that you made. Or it’s small, like figuring out Eddie Murphy, for whatever reason, just isn’t that funny anymore. Fortunately, my disappointm... Full story
