Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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At their meeting today, Roosevelt County Commissioners are scheduled to consider a policy requiring capital outlay requests to the Legislature to come before the commission in advance if the county might need to act as fiscal agent in the project. The meeting is set for 9 a.m. in the Roosevelt County Courthouse commission room. According to the sample policy from Grant County, the procedure is intended to allow the commission and county personnel to identify needs, understand proposed projects and prioritize applications....
Portales City Council will be tending to housekeeping chores when it meets at 7 p.m. today, including a review the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce annual report. Among the other items proposed: • Approval and adoption of 2009 Community Development Block Grant Plans and policies. These include the 2009 Fair housing policy, 2009 Citizen participation plan, 2009 Anti-displacement and relocation plan and 2009 Section 3 plan — all are applications for federal grants. • Evaluation of bids for a wastewater...
ENMU’s MySpace sponsoring video contest Eastern New Mexico University’s MySpace page is sponsoring a video contest with the theme of “Cool School ENMU.” The video should be between 30-60 seconds with no restriction on format. It shouldn’t be risque. The contest is open to all of ENMU’s MySpace friends – high school students, college students, faculty and staff, the general public, etc. The entry deadline is April 15. Upload the video to YouTube and submit as a “Comment” to ENMU’s MySpace page at www.myspace.com/e...
Saturday, fugitive Noe Torres contacted the Clovis News Journal for a third time, leaving a near-five minute meassage on an answering machine. Fugitive Noe Torres, accused in the 2005 slaying of a 10-year-old boy, has called the Clovis News Journal again. The latest calls were left on an answering machine in the early morning hours Saturday. They are posted here unedited. Previous contact with Torres:...
Name: Kim Butler Job: Librarian and art instructor at Steiner Elementary School Background: Butler grew up in Portales, but went to school in Waxahachie, Texas, before attending college at Eastern New Mexico University. Time on job: 19 years What does your job entail? I read to kids, check books in and out and make sure we have the right books for our age groups to read. I also teach art here and do a little multi-tasking. What is a typical day like for you? It tends to be non-stop. From the time I walk in the door to the...
Freedom New Mexico: Argen Duncan State Sen. Stuart Ingle expects the financial shortage to be the biggest issue in this year’s Legislative session. Here, he sits in his Portales home next to photos of his daughters. Hunter, family man, farmer, state senator for 24 years. Portales resident Stuart Ingle wears many hats in eastern New Mexico, where he was born and raised. Ingle, a Republican elected to another term in November, has spent the last eight years as Senate minority leader. “I enjoy working with people in the v...
Gay marriage counters principles I am a Christian, a sinner, and socially and fiscally conservative. Every structure is built from a plan and rests on a foundation. A building is founded upon brick, mortar, etc....
Freedom New Mexico Today’s inauguration of Barack Obama as our 44th president is a special day for all Americans. Many might consider it even more special than many previous transitions of presidential authority. Certainly at the top of the list is the ascension of the nation’s non-Anglo president. Many people consider it long overdue, coming 220 years after George Washington first took office and 143 years after ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution officially ended slavery. Others welcome an end to the Bus...
Standings All times MST Men South Division Div. All W-L W-L Midwestern State 2-0 13-4 West Texas A&M 1-0 11-5 Angelo State 1-1 13-4 Texas A&M-Kingsville 1-1 11-6 Abilene Christian 1-1 7-8 Eastern New Mexico 0-1 4-12 Tarleton State 0-2 12-5 North Division Div. All W-L W-L Central Oklahoma 2-0 15-2 Cameron 2-0 7-8 Southwestern Oklahoma 1-1 10-7 Northeastern State 1-1 6-11 East Central 0-1 4-12 Southeastern Oklahoma 0-1 3-13 Texas A&M-Commerce 0-2 9-8 Monday’s game East Central at Rhema Bible (n). Wednesday’s games Mid...
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Samplings of recent calls received by Clovis-area law enforcement officers, according to reports: About 4 a.m. Jan. 10 an officer responded to a residence in the 1200 block of Calhoun Street for a burglary report. A man said he returned home from the store and discovered a box of wine and a pistol were missing. The man said he believed his girlfriend had taken the items because they had a domestic dispute earlier in the evening and she was upset with him. He said if the firearm was returned, he would not press charges. The...
He had dreamed of being the one up on the inauguration platform in Washington, D.C. Instead, Gov. Bill Richardson remains in Santa Fe today, his presidential hopes long gone and his nomination to a cabinet post having soured in the face of a federal grand jury investigation. While Barack Obama, the first African-American ever elected president, basks in the glow of a landmark celebration, Richardson will help inaugurate another session of the New Mexico Legislature, one that many lawmakers predict won’t be a lot of fun. I...
He had dreamed of being the one up on the inauguration platform in Washington, D.C. Instead, Gov. Bill Richardson remains in Santa Fe today, his presidential hopes long gone and his nomination to a cabinet post having soured in the face of a federal grand jury investigation. While Barack Obama, the first African-American ever elected president, basks in the glow of a landmark celebration, Richardson will help inaugurate another session of the New Mexico Legislature, one that many lawmakers predict won’t be a lot of fun. I...
Hunter, family man, farmer, state senator for 24 years. Portales resident Stuart Ingle wears many hats in eastern New Mexico, where he was born and raised. Ingle, a Republican elected to another term in November, has spent the last eight years as Senate minority leader. “I enjoy working with people in the various counties I serve, and I enjoy the people I meet in the state Legislature,” Ingle said. “It’s been interesting for me, and I hope I help the people in the district I serve.” The Legislature starts today. Among the... Full story
The Portales News-Tribune reported that Army Capt. Augustine "Gus" Garcia, of Portales, was honored at a ceremony at Fort Bliss for "gallantry in action in Vietnam," after he returned wounded from a tour of duty. He was presented with the Bronze Star medal with the First Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Silver Star....
Local pastors asked their congregations to protest proposed legislation that would repeal the state local option liquor law and any measure that would legalize gambling. Roosevelt County had voted to stay dry when the issue was brought up years before, making it and Curry County the only dry counties in the state. Curry County originally voted to legalize alcohol, but...
A group of eighth- and ninth-grade Portales students under the tutelage of Mrs. Louise Cooper attempted to view the first American satellite as it was to be visible across certain southern states....
The Portales News-Tribune reported that the Blackwater Draw water line was near completion as the 13-mile pipeline was only a few hundred feet away from the reservoir site....
Lt. Col. A. D. Tuttle was planning to reopen his medical office in Portales after serving 45 years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, a year of which he served in New Guinea....
The Portales Tribune reported that...
A basketball game between Eastern New Mexico University and Texas Western College...
The Portales News-Tribune reported that the Portales Livestock Commission's ninth annual equipment sale that began the day before... Full story
The Portales News-Tribune reported that Dr. Milton Van Dyke, a former Portales High School student who attended Harvard University and was now an aeronautical research scientist, was visiting the area for the weekend. Van Dyke also attended Cambridge University and California Institute of Technology. Although he only spent three years previously...
Dr. Joseph Acey Cooper, a prominent cattleman of Kenna and a homesteader to the area, was buried in the Kenna Cemetery after his sudden death the previous Sunday. His family homesteaded in Kenna in 1906 after moving from Pickton, Texas. He eventually turned to ranching and became one of Roosevelt County's most prosperous ranchers.... Full story
