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Editor's note: The Q&A was done via email and edited for style and clarity. Courtesy photo Sgt. Chase Taylor participated in a motorcycle charity ride with other members of Cannon Air Force Base in March. The charity ride was organized to raise money for a memorial honoring Sgt. John Levitow, who is recognized for being the lowest ranking airman to receive the Medal of Honor for exceptional heroism during wartime. In April of 1969, Levitow was aboard an AC-47 called the "Spooky 71" when their aircraft was attacked by Viet...
Editor's note: The Q&A was done via email and edited for style and clarity. Courtesy photo Sgt. Chase Taylor participated in a motorcycle charity ride with other members of Cannon Air Force Base in March. The charity ride was organized to raise money for a memorial honoring Sgt. John Levitow, who is recognized for being the lowest ranking airman to receive the Medal of Honor for exceptional heroism during wartime. In April of 1969, Levitow was aboard an AC-47 called the "Spooky 71" when their aircraft was attacked by Viet...
Cannon Air Force Base Col. Buck Elton and New Mexico Department of Veteran Affairs Cabinet Secretary Timothy Hale, a previous military member, were guest speakers at the New Mexico Employer Summit on April 26 in Clovis. Alisa Boswell: Cannon Connections New Mexico Department of Veteran Affairs Cabinet Secretary Timothy Hale spoke to New Mexico business owners about how they can help the veteran workforce while at a business summit on April 26 in Clovis. Hale said the help begins with communities caring about the veteran...
Cannon Air Force Base Col. Buck Elton and New Mexico Department of Veteran Affairs Cabinet Secretary Timothy Hale, a previous military member, were guest speakers at the New Mexico Employer Summit on April 26 in Clovis. Alisa Boswell: Cannon Connections New Mexico Department of Veteran Affairs Cabinet Secretary Timothy Hale spoke to New Mexico business owners about how they can help the veteran workforce while at a business summit on April 26 in Clovis. Hale said the help begins with communities caring about the veteran...
Maj. Rob Chambers is used to flying. After all, he's been a pilot for 15 years and flies Dornier-328 aircraft with the 551st Special Operations Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base. CNJ photo: Gabriel Monte Rilee Caudel, 6, of Clovis helps get a friend's kite airborne Saturday at the ninth annual Kite Karnival at Doc Stewart Park. And while his 6-year-old son, Elijah Chambers, doesn't have as much experience flying aircraft, he didn't have any trouble performing aerial...
Maj. Rob Chambers is used to flying. After all, he's been a pilot for 15 years and flies Dornier-328 aircraft with the 551st Special Operations Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base. CNJ photo: Gabriel Monte Rilee Caudel, 6, of Clovis helps get a friend's kite airborne Saturday at the ninth annual Kite Karnival at Doc Stewart Park. And while his 6-year-old son, Elijah Chambers, doesn't have as much experience flying aircraft, he didn't have any trouble performing aerial...
ALBUQUERQUE — Clovis High's tennis season came to an end on Thursday when senior Alek Mendoza and sophomore Meera Shah were beaten in girls doubles by top-seeded Diamond Morrill and Eliana Garcia of District 4-5A rival Carlsbad 6-1, 6-4. Mendoza and Shah, seeded eighth, advanced with a win in their first-round match on Wednesday over Cibola's Tessa Hunt and Sarah Wirtz 6-3, 7-5. Meantime, the boys' lone representative, senior Charlie Sharp, dropped his opening-round singles match on Wednesday night to eighth-seeded Jackson S...
Weldon Killough of Clovis carded a hole in-one Tuesday on the par-3, 167-yard eighth hole at Colonial Golf Course. Killough used a 7-iron for his third career ace. Witnesses were Andy Knight, Angel Martinez, Tom Harden and Dan Fox....
Drew Hatley knows his squad is a definite underdog. CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks First-year Clovis baseball coach Drew Hatley says his plan for this weekend's Class 5A state playoff series at second-seeded La Cueva is simple: ... "we're going to give it a whirl, have fun and play the best we can play." Clovis High's baseball team, seeded 15th, visits second-seeded La Cueva today for the start of a three-game, round-of-16 Class 5A state baseball series. While the...
One of my favorite things about going to the commissary and BX are watching the retired military members, some with their spouses and some that are alone, come to shop. I love to watch them peruse the aisles, taking their time, thinking to myself it would be so wonderful to wander every aisle and not feel like I have to rush through my grocery list to get onto the next task of my day. I like to imagine what their military careers were like. Where were they stationed? What were their jobs? What caused them to join the...
One of my favorite things about going to the commissary and BX are watching the retired military members, some with their spouses and some that are alone, come to shop. I love to watch them peruse the aisles, taking their time, thinking to myself it would be so wonderful to wander every aisle and not feel like I have to rush through my grocery list to get onto the next task of my day. I like to imagine what their military careers were like. Where were they stationed? What were their jobs? What caused them to join the...
Eastern New Mexico University junior William Welch is second after the first day of the men's decathlon at the Lone Star Conference Track and Field Championships in Commerce, Texas. Welch, from Salinas, Calif., scored 3,635 points Thursday in five events, including a win in the high jump (1.97 meters) and a second-place finish in the long jump (6.76 meters). Angelo State's Seth Pearson is the leader with 3,776 points. The decathlon resumes Friday morning....
Eastern New Mexico University junior William Welch is second after the first day of the men's decathlon at the Lone Star Conference Track and Field Championships in Commerce, Texas. Welch, from Salinas, Calif., scored 3,635 points Thursday in five events, including a win in the high jump (1.97 meters) and a second-place finish in the long jump (6.76 meters). Angelo State's Seth Pearson is the leader with 3,776 points. The decathlon resumes Friday morning....
Portales stayed inside its program to find its new boys head basketball coach. Rick McBroom will succeed Mark Gallegos after serving under as six seasons as his assistant. Gallegos took over as Portales' athletic director in March after 14 years as boys basketball coach. McBroom has previous head coaching experience with stops at Lordsburg, Moriarty and Aztec. He was selected from among "14 to 15" applicants, according to Gallegos. McBroom was one of six candidates interviewed. The Rams finished 10-16 last...
Portales stayed inside its program to find its new boys head basketball coach. Rick McBroom will succeed Mark Gallegos after serving under as six seasons as his assistant. Gallegos took over as Portales' athletic director in March after 14 years as boys basketball coach. McBroom has previous head coaching experience with stops at Lordsburg, Moriarty and Aztec. He was selected from among "14 to 15" applicants, according to Gallegos. McBroom was one of six candidates interviewed. The Rams finished 10-16 last...
When it comes to a 16-team playoff in New Mexico, some of the higher seeds aren't often familiar with the lower ones they'll have to play in the first round. Joshua Lucero: Portales News-Tribune correspondent Portales second baseman Brandon Lovato catches a ground ball to get Texico's Jarron Hill out at second base in the top of the third inning of a Rams' game against Texico April 19 at Ram baseball field. That's certainly the case for the Portales softball and baseball teams this weekend as the squads have searched high...
"Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth" (Psalm 46:10, KJV). Many voices compete for our attention. The demands of employment, family obligations and other activities seldom leave a quiet time in our busy schedules. Finding a quiet time is important for our bodies and souls. Let's get alone with God and keep silent. After all, life can only be lived one day at a time. We can only wear one thing at a time. We can only accomplish a task one at a time and it takes...
Eastern New Mexico University will be saying goodbye to some long-term faculty members this month as they retire from higher education and move on to fishing, traveling and quality family time. Here's what retirees had to say about their ENMU experience and where they plan to go next: Name: V. Scott Johnson, "Doctor J" Position held: Professor of psychology since 1981 What is one of your most memorable experiences at ENMU? There was an incident that occurred quite late in a semester when a usually silent, senior student...
Good morning and welcome to the Friday briefing. Cleanup time Clovis' annual Great American Cleanup picks up starting 8 a.m. Saturday at Parks and Recreation headquarters, 500 Sycamore St. A spokesman says they need lots of volunteers for the all-day affair. Info: 769-7870 Free acting advice It's happening now. Eastern New Mexico University's Department of Theatre is hosting a student-run open theatre lab 7 p.m. each day through Saturday in the Studio Lab of the University Theatre Center. It is free and open to the public....
State Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera made an impromptu visit Thursday to Tucumcari Elementary School. QCS photo: Thomas Garcia New Mexico Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera, right kneeling, visits with a group of second-graders Thursday at Tucumcari Elementary School. Skandera toured Tucumcari Elementary as part of her tour of school districts in the state. It is part of her plan to get a first-hand look at local school districts. "I talked a lot about getting out...
ALBUQUERQUE — Portales' representatives in the Class 1A-3A girls and boys individual state tennis tournament each bowed out in quarterfinal matches on Thursday at the Jerry Cline Tennis Complex. Eighth-seeded sophomore Emily Walker, who won her first-round match on Wednesday against Hope Christian's Melissa Rosenthal 7-5, 5-7, 6-2, lost on Thursday morning to top-seeded Juliana Guerin of Las Vegas Robertson, who went on to play in Thursday night's championship match. The score of the Walker-Guerin match was not available. I...
Reed Anfinson, president of the National Newspaper Association, writes about the U.S. Postal Service dilema. Now that U.S. Senate has passed a bill, S 1789, to reform the ailing U.S. Postal Service, critics are trying to disable the bill on its way to the House of Representatives. Business Week recently catalogued unhappy stakeholders, including postal unions, postal management and some Republicans who wrongly think the bill burdens taxpayers. Some see the Senate bill as the inevitable product of the sausage machine. But it...
Few political observers have compared the 42nd president of the United States with the 36th. But what former President Bill Clinton intoned last week at West Texas A&M University well might have brought back memories of the late President Lyndon Johnson. It is this, quite simply: Rigid ideology must not stop progress on behalf of the country. Clinton, speaking as part of WT's Distinguished Lecture Series, told a packed First United Bank Event Center that "we can do lots of stuff to grow the economy, but if we spend most of ou...
Libertarianism is often described as the advocacy of maximum liberty and minimum government. The "maximum liberty" part is pretty easy to understand, once you really understand what liberty is. As long as your actions don't harm another person physically, and don't take or damage his personal property, you are within your rights to do anything. You are "at liberty" to proceed. Thomas Jefferson put it this way: "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of...
Libertarianism is often described as the advocacy of maximum liberty and minimum government. The "maximum liberty" part is pretty easy to understand, once you really understand what liberty is. As long as your actions don't harm another person physically, and don't take or damage his personal property, you are within your rights to do anything. You are "at liberty" to proceed. Thomas Jefferson put it this way: "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of...
