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I’m in a fortunate position where I can spend 500 to 600 words reflecting on whatever I want. Sometimes, a thought of mine simply isn’t enough to fill that word amount. So here’s a bunch of things that are good enough to share, but not good enough for their own column: l If somebody gets you into a talk about the 2008 presidential campaign and you want a quick way out, it’s simple. Look at your watch, pause for a few seconds and say, “Well, my watch tells me that party conventions are still 16 months away, and I’m betti...
Cecil Cook has purchased the Morgan Insurance Agency from Mrs. Mary Morgan and Jay Morgan and will take over the business on March 1. Mr. Cook has been in the insurance business in Clovis and Portales for the past four years. He will change the name of the firm to Cecil Cook Insurance Agency and will handle fire, casualty and auto insurance and bonds. The firm will continue its location in the Morgan Building....
Several students were beaming with pride Tuesday as their families took a tour of their new classrooms at Brown Early Childhood Center. The kindergarten wing of the school, which opened Jan. 9, held a community open house Tuesday with students, families, teachers and even the contractors who built the school on hand. “The classrooms are just fantastic,” said Travis Erwin, a parent of a kindergarten student at the school. “They’re so well equipped.” With refrigerators and sinks (in each classroom) it’s just a really cool...
Combining his love of horses and the chance to teach others to better communicate with their horses, horse trainer Orrin Barnes presented a clinic Tuesday at the 15th annual New Mexico Ag Expo. Barnes uses his clinics as an opportunity to teach horse owners about the proper bridling and saddling techniques. He also teaches participants how to prepare their horses for show and trail riding, he said. “It’s one of those deals you can teach every day,” Barnes said. The clinics provide an equal ground for beginners and more exper...
Nestled among the antique tractors on display at the 15th annual New Mexico Ag Expo was a 1955 Farmall 400 tractor belonging to Connie Mac and Shelia Smith of Roswell. The pink — yes, pink — tractor stood out in the midst of the green, red and orange tractors also on display. Purchased to use as a pulling tractor, the rusty tractor was restored and painted pink since it would be driven by Sheila and also for fun, she said. “We want to have fun and it’s a fun tractor,” Sheila said. Sheila’s grandmother died from breast canc...
Travis Hardin, a radio technician with Yucca Telecom works inside the trunk of a Clovis police cruiser Monday. Hardin is part of a two-man team installing new digital camera systems in 18 patrol units. (CNJ staff photo: Sharna Johnson) Digital camera systems will soon make videotapes a thing of the past for Clovis Police Department patrolmen. Officers will go from turning in bulky videotapes of their shifts to uploading data to a computer server with the option of burning...
ENMU senior Elizabeth Richards dives for the ball against against Texas Woman’s during a game earlier this month at Greyhound Arena. Richards was chosen to the women’s All-LSC South first team, announced Tuesday (CNJ staff photo: Andy DeLisle) PORTALES — Senior forward Elizabeth Richards said she had two goals for the 2006-07 basketball season — exceed her stats from her two previous full seasons at Eastern New Mexico University (2002-04) and make the All-Lone Star Conference South Division team. Check, and check. Richard...
Portales softball coach Robbie Crowley and her girls are determined to get past the Class 3A state tournament first-round game, their stumbling block last year against Santa Fe Indian School. “We were leading that game and we ended up losing in the last two innings,” Crowley said. “We had the game won and we just kind of let it go.” One year later, the Lady Rams are ready to hit the diamond, stocked with 10 seniors. “This year we have high expectations,” Crowley said. “(Our seniors) have had three years experience in varsity,...
