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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents unanimously approved a salary increase for the university’s department of public safety at Saturday’s meeting. Chancellor Jeff Elwell said the department will receive 2.5 to 3 percent raises across the board. Vice President of Business Affairs Scott Smart said the increase will make ENMU more competitive with other local law enforcement agencies and cut down on the university’s training costs for non-certified police officers, which can be $15,000 to $20,000 per of...
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CLOVIS — When thinking of cricket, most Americans likely think of a jolly good game played across the pond, maybe after a spot of tea and some crumpets. It is indeed a sport often associated with the British, but there are teams playing it all over the world, including right here in Clovis at Bob Spencer Park. There’s Clovis Cricket Club, a team that has won the New Mexico Cricket League championship two of the past three seasons (including this year), and the Clovis Spa... Full story
If the United States Postal Service had a loyalty program, Lea County cowboy artist Curtis Fort would be a platinum member. Or maybe, more appropriately, bronze. Almost every evening he's in the combination home/studio that he shares with his wife, Carol, near Tatum, he's at his kitchen table, a pen or pencil in his left hand, writing and illustrating notes to be stamped and mailed the next day. In a world where it's easy to acknowledge a passing encounter or kindness with... Full story
Area political candidates have spent almost $85,000 this campaign season in effort to become the next magistrate judge, county commissioner or sheriff, records show. The primary election is Tuesday. The financial reports from the New Mexico Campaign Finance Information System — www.cfis.state.nm.us — are through Thursday. Curry County Magistrate Judge candidate Stephen Whittington has spent the most money, according to the CFIS: $16,680.50. His opponents in the Republican Division 2 judge race have also been big spe... Full story
With my lightning-quick moves in basketball shorts, the only task more stressful for 32-year-old Carl Smith than guarding me in jeans is being a 911 dispatcher. Working for Portales Communications, a city entity, he sees the worst and best of humanity. Handling calls from suicide threats to homicides to fatal accidents, it is the “compassion and professionalism” of first responders who allow him to see the best of humanity. “I’m proud that everyone I work with does their best to ensure that our community gets the help th... Full story
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, noon pinochle, 1 p.m. line dance, 5 p.m. social night Tuesday: 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. pinochle class, noon pinochle 101, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 1 p.m. crafters, 2:30 p.m. embroidery Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. sew days, 10 a.m. nursing home visit, 1 p.m. Needle Gang Thursday: 8 a.m. blood pressure, 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 9 a.m. pinochle 101, 1...
Information on creating space with pattern and wood burning celtic knots will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.) Interior designers Katie Schroder and Erika Rundiks will talk about how to create a space with pattern, especially using layers with patterns. They will demonstrate using different scales of patterns, such as stripes, organic and geometric shapes. They’re in Denver, Colorado. Artis...
I might have told you before that I ate a lot of chicken growing up. That would be fried chicken. We ate chicken at least a couple days a week, usually at dinner — that’s the noon meal if you grew up in the time and place I did. I’m not sure how my mother found the time and energy to cut up and fry a chicken at noon that often. Sometimes she even packed it up and hauled it out to the field with a gallon jug of iced tea. We eventually quit getting homemade fried chicken very...
We all have our moments when we decide we want to experiment and have fun with fashion. In doing so, we hope not to make a fashion faux pa when we walk into a room. Today, it's so easy to be “that person” with some of the trends and worst style fads that may leave you scratching your head. One of the most recent comeback trends are Crocs. First, we saw them make their way back to mainstream fashion by Christopher Kane introducing a fur-lined pair on the runway and first ava...
Dwayne Grenko was born and raised in Gallup, a twin brother to Wayne Grenko of Gallup. He grew up loving sports with his favorite being baseball. He wasn't much interested in academia in his earlier years but he persisted and graduated high school in 1988 in Gallup. When he turned 18, he moved to Portales to study history and health education at Eastern New Mexico University. He started umpiring little league in 2001 and earned his bachelors degree in 2005. He continued to...
Playing in the dirt is good for the soul. The past several days have been a blur of activity at Head Acres. We have pulled weeds, dodged some nasty looking bugs, and ran screaming from some pretty dicey spiders. We’re not the only gardeners getting up close and personal with nature. I saw a post from a friend in Tucumcari who, when turning over a pot, came too close to a scorpion. So now, we’re turning over pots and moving sticks and debris very gingerly. Spiders and bugs asi...
I’m no stranger to sports nickname controversy. In the 1990s, I wrote a newspaper column suggesting a few changes for regional school sports teams. That’s been a long time and I can’t find the column online, but I do remember a few of my better ideas: • the Muleshoe Mules should become the Muleshoe Laces, I wrote; • and the Hart Longhorns should become the Hart Attacks; • and every team named the Longhorns, Wildcats or Tigers should change to ... something interesting. My great ideas were not well received. One elementary...
We get it. The relationship between reporters and the government officials they cover can be testy. And if officials sometimes find it irksome to have the free press poking endlessly around their business, we understand. But if reporters aren’t on hand to witness the sausage-making that is our government at work, then how can the true bosses in a democracy — the ordinary voters like you, our readers, who don’t have the access or the means to watch up close — make smart decisions about the direction they want to lead the cou...
Monday • Theatre Arts and Drama Academy — 9 a.m. to noon for students in grades four through six and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. for students in grades seven through nine at the Eastern New Mexico University Theatre Center. Tuition is $75 per student for one week. Information: 575-562-2711 Tuesday • Theatre Arts and Drama Academy — 9 a.m. to noon for students in grades four through six and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. for students in grades seven through nine at the Eastern New Mexico University Theatre Center. Tuition is $75 per student for one...
A carrot and stick approach to truancy They say 90 percent of success is simply, ‘showing up.’ For a Clovis High School junior, the remaining 10 percent is the luck of the draw. District Attorney Andrea Reeb announced this week that Cole Carlton was the winner in a radio drawing from over 350 students with perfect attendance in the past school year. The grand prize is an all-expense paid trip to Dallas for him and his family, according to a press release. The award is part of the Abolish Chronic Truancy program from Ree...
On this date ... 1988: Former Dallas Cowboys football player Walt Garrison was in Clovis in his second profession, as a card-carrying member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys of America and a representative of United States Tobacco. Garrison was representing U.S. Tobacco at a steer roping at the Curry County Mounted Patrol Arena when the Clovis News-Journal caught up with him for a photo and a feature. Although Garrison had retired from professional football in 1974, he was...
If you saw it as a “help wanted” ad, you might skip it assuming there’s some kind of catch. “Experience preferred but not required, high school diploma or equivalent needed. Salary $90,000 per year. Apply at county clerk’s office. Registered voters only.” But you guessed it: There are a few catches for the magistrate judge position and its $89,907 salary. You dole out sentences which can change the direction of a person’s life. You may throw out a traffic ticket in the morning, then decide in the afternoon if an open count...
