Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Freedom New Mexico Eastern New Mexico University junior guard Cat Clay was named to the All-Lone Star Conference South Division’s second team for the second-straight year. Junior guard and Clovis native Tori Northcutt was an honorable mention for the Zias. Clay led the Zias with 14.2 points per game and was tops in the Lone Star Conference from the arc, hitting 81 3-pointers on the season, with at least one in 25 of 27 games for ENMU (8-19, 3-9 LSC South). She enters her senior season with 910 career points, tied for 15th o...
ALBUQUERQUE — How much does everyone at The Pit love Roman Martinez? Well, even the opposing coach was gushing about New Mexico’s Mr. Nice Guy. Martinez added 19 points in his final home game and Darington Hobson added 20 points and 14 rebounds, leading No. 8 New Mexico to a 73-66 win over TCU on Wednesday night and the Lobos’ first outright conference title in 16 years. It was a love fest for New Mexico’s only senior, with fans giving him a huge cheer during introductions, then chanting his name in the closing minut...
March 5, 1950: Portales Junior High girls were learning to folk dance during physical education classes. They’d mastered the “Golden Slippers,” “Boston Two Step” and “Five Foot Two,” among others....
USAF photo: Airman 1st Class Maynelinne De La Cruz Chief Master Sgt. William Turner, left, 27th Special Operations Wing command chief and Col. Stephen Clark, right, 27 SOW commander, flank Cannon Air Force Base senior master sergeant selects, second from left, Bobbi Jo Stumpf, Roddy Martin, Robert West, Charles Nimmo, Robert McDonald, Kelby Norton, William Seaman, Luis Acuria and Frankline Varghese. The Air Force officials announced that 1,450 of 13,216 eligible master sergeants were selected for promotion to senior master...
USAF photo: Airman 1st Class Maynelinne De La Cruz Chief Master Sgt. William Turner, left, 27th Special Operations Wing command chief and Col. Stephen Clark, right, 27 SOW commander, flank Cannon Air Force Base senior master sergeant selects, second from left, Bobbi Jo Stumpf, Roddy Martin, Robert West, Charles Nimmo, Robert McDonald, Kelby Norton, William Seaman, Luis Acuria and Frankline Varghese. The Air Force officials announced that 1,450 of 13,216 eligible master sergeants were selected for promotion to senior master...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Coach J.D. Isler was awarded a contract to coach next year in exchange for dropping his law suit against the district and superintendent. CNJ staff writer: Liliana Castillo... Full story
Hi, my name is Curtis and I’m a Winter Olympicaholic. As I write, the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver are themselves closing. Seventeen days sounded like a good long time, but now the Olympic flame is being extinguished. Our neighbors to the north did a bang-up good job. Now, four long years to wait for the next Winter Games. When we get to view that kind of quality, it’s frustrating to watch even the obligatory commercials which this year are oft...
Editor's note: Amos is a churchmouse who types by hurling himself at the keys, but he can't use the shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks -- except for hyphens and dashes....
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis schools Student Support Services Executive Director Tamara Moore-Callahan took over the position last year. Tamara Moore-Callahan, executive director of student services for Clovis Schools, took over the position after Cindy Osborn retired last year. Moore-Callahan and her husband moved to Clovis while her husband was in the military. He retired out of Cannon Air Force Base, became the pastor of St. John Baptist Church and the family has lived here for 10 years. Student support:...
Courtesy photo Lord George Care of Clifton will be a guest speaker for the St. James Bishop Terence Kelshaw Lecture Series. Carey served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. Lord Carey of Clifton of the Church of England will be giving guest presentations during the St. James Church’s annual lecture series. Author of 14 books on spirituality and his experiences in service to the Anglican church, Carey will be lecturing on Christian discipleship. The lecture series will take place March 19 and 20 and Carey will g...
Depressed, infuriated and disappointed — those are just some of the feelings area lawmakers are bringing home after a four-day special session of the state Legislature ended Thursday with tax hikes on food and cigarettes. The Legislature adjourned with a new budget after approving more than $230 million from tax increases. “I think it was a disaster personally,” said Keith Gardner, R-Roswell. “We had an opportunity here to improve the operation of government. Now what... Full story
Why is it so hard for the world to admit that a society governed by biblical principles is a society that flourishes? The world’s answer to this dilemma is more gun control, more laws, more policemen, more government funding and more taxes! Those who live by biblical standards seem to me to have longer lives and are less likely to abuse alcohol or drugs. They are less likely to be wife or child abusers, criminals or law-breakers. They are also twice as likely to stay married, in my years of observation. The strength of a nati...
Wholesale milk prices for dairy owners in the area have decreased after a rise several months ago. Local dairy owners say it’s only a short setback and predict prices will start climbing again later this year. Alan Anderson of Anderson Dairy in Roosevelt County said globally, prices for cheese and milk whey had gone down while those for butter and skim milk increased. Portales dairy owner Alva Carter Jr. said the largest fraction of milk produced in the area goes to cheese for restaurants. Prices have dropped 60 cents to 7...
Good morning. It’s Freedom New Mexico’s Friday briefing. Video of the day:It's in your backyard Web site of the day http://www.library.cityofclovis.org/elecresources.html Find online resources offered through Clovis-Carver Public Library’s Web site. BBQ time Check out the American Legion Post 117 barbecue 11 a.m. Saturday until it’s gone. They say it goes quickly. The post is at 2800 W. Grand in Clovis. Help please The City of Clovis’ Quality of Life Task Force is working with United Way and the Curry County Wellness Council... Full story
Several years ago, my girls and I witnessed an incident in the airport in Lubbock that was a powerful commentary on mothering. While passengers were sitting around waiting for fights, we watched two women. I think we noticed them because they were completely opposite. Closest to us was one mother with two little girls. This woman was quite attractive and her manicured slender fingers adorned with stylish rings stood out again the black vinyl chairs. Long silver earrings dangle... Full story
Good morning. It’s Freedom New Mexico’s Friday briefing....
Saturday Food and clothing give away — 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m., Matt 25 Hope Center. Information: 763-4400...
Wholesale milk prices for dairy owners in the area have decreased after a rise several months ago. Local dairy owners say it’s only a short setback and predict prices will start climbing again later this year. Alan Anderson of Anderson Dairy in Roosevelt County said globally, prices for cheese and milk whey had gone down while those for butter and skim milk increased. Portales dairy owner Alva Carter Jr. said the largest fraction of milk produced in the area goes to cheese for restaurants. Prices have dropped 60 cents to 7...
Depressed, infuriated and disappointed — those are just some of the feelings area lawmakers are bringing home after a four-day special session of the state Legislature ended Thursday with tax hikes on food and cigarettes. The Legislature adjourned with a new budget after approving more than $230 million from tax increases. “I think it was a disaster personally,” said Keith Gardner R-Roswell. “We had an opportunity here to improve the operation of government. Now what... Full story
Freedom New Mexico The day after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether the Second Amendment to the Constitution overrides local gun control laws, national coffee chain Starbucks defended its policy not to prohibit firearms at its outlets. Starbucks officials issued a statement Wednesday that essentially deferred gun prohibition decisions to government officials. If they aren’t banned in a specific city or town, Starbucks won’t ban them either. The stores’ non-intervention policy came to the fore after the high c...
A powerful and vital aspect of the fully free society would be that only those burdens may be imposed on citizens that they have been convincingly shown, via due process of law, to deserve. This is roughly how the criminal law works. This is why the prosecution carries the onus of proof and not the defense — all the defense needs to do is point out serious holes in the case being mounted by the prosecution and the jury will acquit. In contrast, when in the old Soviet Union a police officer suspected someone of criminal... Full story
My grandchildren have introduced me to organized team sports for kids, and it’s great fun — for everyone. Parents who succumb to poor sportsmanship during their children’s games make the news now and then, but I can tell you most families are not like that. They are their kids’ cheerleaders, and nobody worries much about whether they win or lose as long as they did their best and had a good time. Parents (or grandparents or aunts or uncles) drive the kids to practice after school during the week, which is fairly easy.... Full story
Freedom New Mexico The day after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether the Second Amendment to the Constitution overrides local gun control laws, national coffee chain Starbucks defended its policy not to prohibit firearms at its outlets. Starbucks officials issued a statement Wednesday that essentially deferred gun prohibition decisions to government officials. If they aren’t banned in a specific city or town, Starbucks won’t ban them either. The stores’ non-intervention policy came to the fore after the high c... Full story
A powerful and vital aspect of the fully free society would be that only those burdens may be imposed on citizens that they have been convincingly shown, via due process of law, to deserve. This is roughly how the criminal law works. This is why the prosecution carries the onus of proof and not the defense — all the defense needs to do is point out serious holes in the case being mounted by the prosecution and the jury will acquit. In contrast, when in the old Soviet Union a police officer suspected someone of criminal... Full story
You know the inmates have taken over the asylum when you’re turning to PETA as the voice of reason. These are the animal rights extremists who compared eating chicken to the Holocaust, compared the murdering cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer to butchering hogs and once proclaimed it would be great if Foot and Mouth Disease infected animals in the U.S. A sidebar to the Vancouver Winter Olympics was the saga of an American skater named Johnny Weir who wore fur during his skating routine. According to his agent he was harassed, r... Full story
