Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 40
Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift, and he shuns punctuation marks – except hyphens and dashes. little mouse from nowhere boss there s a strange little creature roaming around the church pew underworld nowadays he came to our neighborhood three days ago boss dressed in what looked to be a tattered burlap bag held together by red rubber bands and those grocery store produce bag ties he looked like elijah come back to life – if elijah...
I have written about it before, but each time I am driving down Commerce Way, my thoughts turn to my very old Marshall Junior High School days. Now it is called Marshall Middle School but when I was there, it was full of seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders. link Judy Brandon Columnist Also I have noticed that some of the trees are now gone and I can remember standing out under those trees at lunch time. Back then, Johnnie’s store was right on the premises, the funeral home w...
I wonder when we turned the corner? Telephonically speaking, I mean. Once upon a time having a cell phone was a very cool thing, a “status symbol” even. (Hey, I remember when having a telephone with push buttons and not a rotary dial was cool.) The first cell phone I ever spied looked like spy Maxwell Smart’s shoe phone. Remember him? Ahead of his time, he was the klutzy TV series “secret agent” (“Get Smart” was the series, even though it helped us get smarter not at all) w...
January is a big month. The start of a new year, lots of erased dates, and an extra column from me squeezed in. Wow, I just realized that I’ve been writing this column for six months. Dadgum! It just seems like yesterday that I awkwardly introduced myself to all ya’ll. link Audra Brown I hope that somewhere in that time I’ve said something that you enjoyed or at least made you laugh a little. I know that I’ve enjoyed writing and I’m looking forward to all the stories I find this year. Back in July, I mentioned some upcoming...
I’m not sure whether Cassandra and I reached a new high, or a new low, by sneaking our dog into the movies last weekend. I’ll let you judge. But before you reach a verdict, allow me to plead my case. Cooper is 8 months old, and leaving him alone for long periods of time is hard. Because when we get home, he demands that we play fetch for hours on end. link Kitsana Dounglomchan And last Saturday, we wanted to go to Lubbock and see the movie “Birdman,” starring Michael Keaton....
Following is a sampling of calls received by dispatchers for Clovis police, Curry County sheriff and area fire stations. Wednesday: • 2:56 a.m.: Subject with a weapon, 100 block of Cedar Street. • 5:09 a.m.: Vehicle theft in progress, 1000 block of West Street. • 9:44 a.m.: Public assist, 1400 block of North Prince Street. • 10:23 a.m.: Burglary report, 600 block of West 13th Street. • 11:05 a.m.: Motor vehicle accident hit and run, 500 block of Hull Street. • 12:29 p.m.: Motor vehicle accident hit and run, 1500 block of No...
Staff report The National Weather Service lifted a winter storm watch late Thursday, saying warmer temperatures sweeping in from California will reduce chances of any significant snowfall today or through the weekend for Clovis or Portales. There will be moisture, said weather service Meteorologist Jason Frazier. Just not in the form of accumulated snowfall. “We have a lot of moisture coming in,” said Frazier. “It just doesn’t look like we’re getting temperatures low enough to get the kind of significant snowfall you’ve ha...
Staff writer [email protected] Jim O’Donnell has spent most of his adult life traveling as a writer and photographer. He shared some of his adventures with Eastern New Mexico University students Thursday at the Jack Williamson Liberal Arts building. While O’Donnell has traveled around the globe — publishing in National Geographic, New Mexico Magazine, Taos Green Guide and many other publications — he talked mainly about what home means to people. “I wanted to pose questions and be thought provoking about the idea of home,...
• Days remaining in session: 50 • Open contract negotiations: Senate Minority Leader Bill Payne, R-Albuquerque, wants contract negotiations involving state employee unions to be open to the public. “The secrecy surrounding the negotiations between the public government entity and the union representatives should end,” Payne said in a news release Thursday. “All other financial discussions in state government are open to the public. The public has the right to know how their tax dollars are invested, how and why certain decisi...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] After claiming local and state awards, an Elida middle school teacher is waiting to see if she won at the national level. Paula Tibbs was nominated for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Smart/Maher National Citizenship Education Teacher Award for middle school teacher of the year. Tibbs said fellow teacher Darla Reed told her she had been nominated, but after winning the district award, which includes teachers from Clovis, Portales and Tucumcari, the phone call that came as a pleasant surprise...
Santa Fe New Mexican Republicans on the House Safety and Civil Affairs Committee flexed their newfound muscle Thursday night, advancing two bills to repeal the law allowing state residents without proof of immigration status to obtain a New Mexico driver’s license. Both cleared the committee on 5-4 party-line votes. Democrats, the minority party in the House of Representatives for the first time since 1954, previously had been able to stop the repeal bill in committees they dominated. Rep. Paul Pacheco, R-Albuquerque, is s...
Staff Report Three Cub Scouts will be awarded the Parvuli Dei award, meaning “little children of God,” at 8:30 a.m. Sunday at Sacred Heart Church. The church is celebrating Scout Sunday and the 105th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America to reflect on the first part of the scout oath “duty to God,” and the 12th point of the scount law, “a scout is reverent.” John Schonberger, the chairman of the Clovis catholic committee on scouting, said any scout, cub, venturer or leader of any faith or belief is invited to attend the...
Staff writer [email protected] The recent parks survey gave Clovis residents a chance to voice their thoughts on the future of parks and recreation in the city. And 93 percent of those responding felt the city should set aside additional funding for parks and recreation activities. Mayor David Lansford opened a town hall meeting, a follow up to the parks survey, with a frank discussion of funding options Thursday at the Clovis Civic Center. link Staff photo: Aubry Buzek...
Staff photo: Aubry Buzek Chris Green, the principal landscape architect for Consensus Planning, discusses parks and recreation priorities and funding with a group at the town hall meeting Thursday at the Clovis Civic Center....
Local columnist link Rube Render Every year the State of the Union speech is touted by pundits and hyped by television producers in an effort to convince the viewing public to tune in. Each year, less and less do. The speech begins with a list of all the triumphs the current administration has achieved during the last year, followed by a laundry list of all the free stuff the public can look forward to in the future. There is generally one statement in these speeches that is...
Local columnist link Kent McManigal Being radical has gotten a bad name due to horrible acts committed by evil radicals. The fault doesn’t lie in being radical; it comes from being radical about bad things, or beliefs, which convince people it’s acceptable to use aggression, coercion, and theft to advance their cause. “Radical” is from the Latin word radix, meaning root. Most of the definitions of the word I have seen make the point that radicals “go down to the root” — to the very foundation of their beliefs. Another term...
New Mexico State University wants to turn back the clock 38 years and keep information from the folks who pay their government’s bills. Information including: • Job applicants. • People who file civil rights complaints or are accused of civil rights violations. • Various law enforcement records. At best the proposed exemptions to the Inspection of Public Records Act are a misguided attempt to beef up the pool of job candidates. At worst they are a move to close New Mexico’s government blinds against disinfecting sunlight...
