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  • Southwest Cheese to donate to education foundation

    Liliana Castillo

    Southwest Cheese will donate $100,000 a year for 25 years to the Clovis Municipal Schools Education Foundation. The Education Foundation provides grants for teachers in the classroom to support innovative teaching. Chase Gentry, executive director of the Clovis Industrial Development Corporation, said the arrangement was added to contracts that were rewritten when the plant expanded. The contracts were finalized in December. Gentry said the donation is a payment in lieu of taxes. Gentry said when the CIDC recruited the plant... Full story

  • Story of Jacob, Esau demonstrates follies of favoritism

    Judy Brandon

    Last week I wrote about the frustrations of Mary and Joseph when they lost Jesus back in Jerusalem. They were like any other parents — frustration sometimes sets in when it comes to raising children. There is another account of children and frustration. Except for Christ, the sinless one, the Bible details the failings and faults of its most well known families. Nothing is hidden — a murder (Moses and the Egyptian overseer) an adulterer (King David) and a liar...

  • a view from under the pew: amos learns god s ways

    amos the churchmouse: a view from under the pew Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks – except hyphens and dashes. amos learns god s ways boss being a christian mouse in a world of heathen alley cats ain t easy to do last sunday pastor leroy beetle preached about loving one another and sharing with those less fortunate and the moment he said that something inside my little mousy heart went pit...

  • First person: Volunteer receives state recognition

    Liliana Castillo

    CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Millie Lees of Clovis says there is nothing better than doing something for someone else. Millie Lees of Clovis was awarded the K. Rose Wood Memorial Award by the New Mexico Aging and Long-term Service Department for her work with AARP in Clovis and Portales. Because Lees suffered a stroke early last year, she can’t volunteer anymore. But Lees says there is nothing better than doing something for someone else. Volunteerism: My husband George and I have been big volunteer for AARP in 1991. B...

  • Freedom, creditors reach bankruptcy deal

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal bankruptcy court judge Thursday approved a deal between Freedom Communications, its unsecured creditors and its lenders that could allow the company to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of March. Freedom properties include the Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and Quay County Sun in Tucumcari. The arduously negotiated deal provides for about eight times more money for the company’s unsecured creditors — including a group of longtime current and former employees — than t...