Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Clovis native Patrick Lyons has again been designated as chairman for the Public Regulation Commission. The commission, created in 1996, regulates utilities, telecommunications, motor carriers and insurance industries to ensure fair and reasonable rates and reasonable services to the public. Lyons was elected to the District 2 seat in 2010. A 1972 graduate of Clovis High School, Lyons is a former state legislator and commissioner of public lands. Q: What are the duties of the chair, above and beyond normal PRC duties? A: (I)...
Clovis native Patrick Lyons has again been designated as chairman for the Public Regulation Commission. The commission, created in 1996, regulates utilities, telecommunications, motor carriers and insurance industries to ensure fair and reasonable rates and reasonable services to the public. Lyons was elected to the District 2 seat in 2010. A 1972 graduate of Clovis High School, Lyons is a former state legislator and commissioner of public lands....
Beginning Jan. 19, Clovis Community College is offering a new High Plains Chorale class. Course students will give a spring concert featuring the music of classic American composers. Clovis Community College instructor Ken McDonald said the course will be offered for college credit. Non-students can attend the course for $15 per semester. For more information visit www.clovis.edu/noncredit or call 769-4760....
In her first month of teaching fourth grade in a lower socio-economic school district, a 10-year-old boy rushed at my friend with a sharpened pencil yelling, “I hate you; you are going to die!” The teacher (who requested anonymity) had simply asked him to complete an assignment. Now in her fourth year of teaching overall, she makes $33,500—while owing $40,000 in student loans. My friend resents politicians who court voters with promises about education reform but have never taught. Of her 20 students, 90 percent are...
Freedom New Mexico Beginning Jan. 19, Clovis Community College is offering a new High Plains Chorale class. Course students will give a spring concert featuring the music of classic American composers. Clovis Community College instructor Ken McDonald said the course will be offered for college credit. Non-students can attend the course for $15 per semester. For more information visit www.clovis.edu/noncredit or call 769-4760....
Proposed new Curry County flood plain maps can be viewed at the Department of Building Safety in Clovis City Hall. The maps are located in the office of Louis Gordon, planning and zoning administrators. Gordon can be contacted at 763-9639. The maps can also be found at www.fema.gov....
Proposed new Curry County flood plain maps can be viewed at the Department of Building Safety in Clovis City Hall. The maps are located in the office of Louis Gordon, planning and zoning administrators. Gordon can be contacted at 763-9639. The maps can also be found at www.fema.gov....
City Engineer Justin Howalt, left, and Danton Bean, senior structural engineer for HDR Engineering Inc., right, look over portions of Mabry Drive up for repair in 2012. Mabry will be repaired between South Prince and Norris street Improvements will include stripping the old pavement and repaving the road and installing turbine gutters and sidewalks. Clovis is planning major road improvements this year that infrastructure experts say will make streets more urban and provide a smoother ride. City Engineer Justin Howalt said...
Robert Bell stands at the bottom of the same elevator shaft where he survived a 30-foot fall about one year ago. Robert Bell is reflecting on how grateful he is for being alive as the one-year anniversary of his accident approaches. He fell 30 feet down an elevator shaft. The 25-year-old Clovis resident and Portales native was loading furniture on the lift of a freight elevator for a customer at his grandmother's antique store in downtown Clovis when the elevator fell with him inside on Jan. 12, 2011. "While I was falling, I...
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Tuesday briefing Commander’s call If you feel like getting up early Wednesday... The ROTC Commander’s call is at 7:15 a.m. in the Clovis High School Activities Building behind the Rock. There will be an assumption of command for the corps commander and both squadron commanders. There will also be presentation of a number of promotions and ribbons. Mom’s break Books and Babies is 10:30 a.m. today at the Portales Public Library for kids up to age 3. Library staff will read...
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Tuesday briefing Commander’s call If you feel like getting up early Wednesday... The ROTC Commander’s call is at 7:15 a.m. in the Clovis High School Activities Building behind the Rock. There will be an assumption of command for the corps commander and both squadron commanders. There will also be presentation of a number of promotions and ribbons. Mom’s break Books and Babies is 10:30 a.m. today at the Portales Public Library for kids up to age 3. Library staff will read...
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Monday briefing. Meetings watch The Curry County Commission meets 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Clovis-Carver Public Library north annex room. Tops on the agenda are hiring a new jail administrator and considering ways to finance a new jail. Meetings are open to the public. Kid singers call Registration for the Eastern New Mexico Children's Choir will be Tuesday in the lobby of the Music Building at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. All third through eighth graders are...
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Monday briefing. Meetings watch The Curry County Commission meets 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Clovis-Carver Public Library north annex room. Tops on the agenda are hiring a new jail administrator and considering ways to finance a new jail. Meetings are open to the public. Kid singers call Registration for the Eastern New Mexico Children's Choir will be Tuesday in the lobby of the Music Building at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. All third through eighth graders are... Full story
Clovis native Patrick Lyons has again been designated as chairman for the Public Regulation Commission. The commission, created in 1996, regulates utilities, telecommunications, motor carriers and insurance industries to ensure fair and reasonable rates and reasonable services to the public. Lyons was elected to the District 2 seat in 2010. A 1972 graduate of Clovis High School, Lyons is a former state legislator and commissioner of public lands....
Clovis native Patrick Lyons has again been designated as chairman for the Public Regulation Commission. The commission, created in 1996, regulates utilities, telecommunications, motor carriers and insurance industries to ensure fair and reasonable rates and reasonable services to the public. Lyons was elected to the District 2 seat in 2010. A 1972 graduate of Clovis High School, Lyons is a former state legislator and commissioner of public lands. Q: What are the duties of the chair, above and beyond normal PRC duties? A: (I)... Full story
Tuesday will be a busy day at city and town halls across eastern New Mexico, with candidates having an 8 a.m.-5 p.m. window to file for office. The following is a list of items that will be on Clovis’ March 6 ballot, including candidates who have announced their intentions to run so far: • The mayor’s race. Gayla Brumfield, a Realtor, is seeking her second term as mayor, and said she would not seek a third term if re-elected. David Lansford, a pharmacist who served three terms before stepping aside for personal reasons i...
Tuesday will be a busy day at city and town halls across eastern New Mexico, with candidates having an 8 a.m.-5 p.m. window to file for office. The following is a list of items that will be on Clovis' March 6 ballot, including candidates who have announced their intentions to run so far: • The mayor's race. Gayla Brumfield, a Realtor, is seeking her second term as mayor, and said she would not seek a third term if re-elected. David Lansford, a pharmacist who served three terms before stepping aside for personal reasons in 2...
In her first month of teaching fourth grade in a lower socio-economic school district, a 10-year-old boy rushed at my friend with a sharpened pencil yelling, "I hate you; you are going to die!" The teacher (who requested anonymity) had simply asked him to complete an assignment. Now in her fourth year of teaching overall, she makes $33,500—while owing $40,000 in student loans. My friend resents politicians who court voters with promises about education reform but have never taught. Of her 20 students, 90 percent are m...
