Articles from the March 27, 2014 edition

Curtis Shelburne

I’ve slept since then, so I don’t remember when it aired, but several years ago, “60 Minutes” did an interesting story on “sleep.” link Curtis Shelburne Sleeping is one thing I’ve always been very good at. But if anyone has pointers, I’m willing to listen. What I heard was fascinating. Modern folks in our society have been a little snooty and dismissive about sleep, as if needing to snooze at all is something of an embarrassment, a luxury we could likely do without if we w...

PNT Staff

Editor’s note: The “Meet the” series profiles the people behind groups, organizations and businesses in the community. link Lillian Bowe: Portales News-Tribune Portales High ag teacher Jerry Faver shows students how to identify different herbs for a horticulture produce contest. Faver said he likes to teach with a hands-on approach instead of from a book. By Lillian Bowe PNT staff writer [email protected] Most of Jerry Faver’s life has revolved around agriculture. Growing...

Joan Clayton

Joan Clayton retired from newspaper column writing last month. She is 85 and decided it was time to seek new adventure. link David Stevens She’s had plenty adventure already, especially when she taught elementary school for 31 years. “... My children in my classroom taught me a lot about life and relationships instead of me teaching them,” she reports. My favorite Clayton story involved five monkeys. Actually, it was one monkey, her husband Emmitt and their three boys. They...

Alisa Boswell

I finally watched the new Disney animated movie “Frozen” and it was as cute as everyone said it was. link Alisa Boswell I don’t know if it’s at the top of my Disney list as many others are saying it is for them, because for me, nothing beats the “Toy Story” movies. Anything Pixar tends to be on my list of favorites. It was a cute movie, though, and well worth watching. My second time around of seeing it was with a group of teenage girls, who sang every song with the movie a...

Kevin Wilson

link Michael Pearce: MCT photo A male lesser prairie chicken is shown in Edwards County, Kan. The federal government designated the lesser prairie-chicken as threatened, prompting praise from environmentalists and threats of defiance from lawmakers, land owners and businesses in the bird’s five-state habitat. CMI staff writer [email protected] In a decision the Fish and Wildlife Service admits isn’t appealing to governors of its five affected states, and a decision that lo... Full story

PNT senior writer [email protected] Community leaders say after days of uncertainty, they’re happy that Sunland Inc. has a new owner and are excited to work with the new community partner. Bankruptcy Trustee Clarke Coll said Thursday the sale of the defunct peanut giant to Canadian food supplier Golden Boy Foods Ltd., with the high bid of $26 million in Wednesday’s auction, will proceed after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Thuma denied an appeal from Hampton Farms of Sev...

Maybe Malaysia Airlines’ missing flight 370 will have been found by the time this gets into print. Or maybe various officials are still saying “we know where it is ... we just haven’t link Kent McManigal physically seen it yet.” Either way, I’m pretty sure the news won’t be good for the families of those missing, whenever it turns up. I have no doubt the mystery has a mundane explanation, whatever it may be, even if it turns out to be human malice — which is unfortunately comm...