Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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link Lillian Bowe: Staff photo Detective Christopher Mitchell, right, talks to patrol Lt. David Meeks on outside the Portales Police Department. Mitchell has been a part of the department since 2013 and served in the Air Force for 22 years. Editor’s note: The “Meet the” series profiles the people behind groups, organizations and businesses in the community. By Lillian Bowe Staff writer [email protected] Detective Christopher Mitchell gets paid to talk to people, which is on...
link Curtis Shelburne Religion columnist Mother’s Day is just a few days away, but my memories of my mother don’t need any calendar or greeting card company’s prompting. Memories rushed in yesterday with particular power because I was doing something Mom would have dearly loved, something she taught me to do, with someone she never met but who she would love with incredible love, someone I can hardly wait for her to meet. I was planting flowers with our little five-...
link Patti Dobson Guest columnist Elves come in all shapes and sizes. In reality, it’s not the size of the elf but the size of the heart that matters. Not everyone is lucky enough to have elves among them, but Westminster Presbyterian Church can count itself among the more fortunate. For in our midst, we have the king and queen of elves ... Dwight and Lona Waldo (Mr. and Mrs. Precious). When most people hit their retirement years, they ... well ... retire. Not so the W... Full story
The mass kidnapping of almost 300 girls to be sold as slaves is unthinkable in civil society. And it should be in Nigeria, where an extremist Islamic terror group abducted the teenagers from a government high school in mid-April. Some escaped, but the whereabouts of about 270 is still unknown three weeks later. On Tuesday, eight more were taken. The group, Boko Haram, says it will sell the girls “in the market, by Allah.” Unconfirmed reports say some already have been sold for as little as $12 apiece. Boko Haram means rou...
link Kent McManigal Local columnist The recent “slightly stronger than average” winds wreaked havoc at my house. My only tree — a big, ugly elm with which I had expressed displeasure only 24 hours earlier — decided to fall and tried to take my carport down with it. It was only partially successful. Within minutes, help arrived and the worst of the mess was being cleaned up. I had friends, family, and a stranger who just happened to drive by, all pitching in to get the situati...
Staff report Though one win came a little easier than expected, it was a fairly good day for the Portales girls tennis squad Wednesday at the Jerry Cline Tennis Complex. In the first round of singles and doubles brackets, all three Portales girls entries came away with wins. Belle Youngerwolf and Samantha Lopez took a 6-4, 6-2 win over Hannah Montoya and Janice Romero of Robertson. In her singles matchup, Jessie Privett took a 6-3, 6-1 win over Raton’s Ila Medina. “They played really well,” Portales coach Ann-Marie Bucks... Full story
