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  • One dead in motorcycle crash

    Updated May 5, 2022

    CLOVIS -- An 18-year-old Clovis man died Thursday in a motorcycle crash. Police identified the victim as Alex Casanova. According to a Clovis police news release: About 8:35 a.m. Thursday, first responders were called to the intersection of Seventh Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard for a motor vehicle crash involving a sport utility vehicle and a motorcycle. On arrival, officers noted a dark in color GMC Yukon in the intersection, and a motorcycle on the ground west of the vehicle. Officers located Casanova, the... Full story

  • Faith: Hats off to my new adventure in Tucumcari

    Patti Dobson, Religion columnist|Updated May 3, 2022

    Hats off to new adventures. My husband Wayne and I officially began a new chapter, answering a call to serve as commissioned pastors of First Presbyterian Church in Tucumcari. We’ve got some pretty hefty shoes to fill. After 11 years at First Pres, Pastor Amy Pospical is embarking on a new adventure herself. Our stories are connected, all because of Dad. The drive to Tucumcari is second nature. Not only is this a road I’ve traveled for years with Wayne, but it’s one I trave...

  • Faith: Wisdom comes from humility, not chronological snobbery

    Curtis Shelburne, Religion columnist|Updated May 3, 2022

    “Chronological snobbery” is the term C. S. Lewis used, in his book Surprised by Joy, to describe “the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited.” My over-simplified description is that it’s the un-examined belief that since we have come along at a later date than our ancestors, we are therefore wiser. “Years ago (and pick any time past) they used to think A, bu...