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link Joe Thomas STAFF WRITER [email protected] After calling an executive session during a special meeting and convening in private for more than an hour to discuss City Manager Joe Thomas’ evaluation, the City Commission took no action on the matter Thursday at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. Mayor David Lansford said the discussion during the executive session was about Thomas’ evaluation as city manager. Commissioners and the mayor are responsible for doing the eva... Full story
link Audra Brown Local columnist ’Tis the season for bull-buying. The choices are many and so are the dollars. It’s a critical decision point for any cattleraiser. For a beef producer like me, the end game is all about pounds, and color. That’s right. Color. Why? I’d love to know. But the truth is black cattle will bring a premium that other shades don’t. And spots? Don’t even get me started. Some cattle buyers will cut out a spotted calf faster than a cripple. But I just hauled three, skinny little longhorn bulls home.... Full story
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link Pat Cantwell Religion columnist As a child of seven, over a period of months, I learned about sin through a study of the Ten Commandments. Romans 3:20 says, “for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” The first commandment explained who God is, what He had done for us, and what He required us to do and not to do. But it wasn't until the seventh commandment, “You shalt not steal,” that I learned I had sinned. I had taken some tiny plastic doll dishes home from my friend's house. I ran crying to my mother, who held me and... Full story
Senior writer [email protected] Roosevelt County school administrators are celebrating their successes and have vowed to improve weaker areas in their districts in response to the state’s 2014 school grading results released Thursday by the New Mexico Public Education Department. Few schools missed the mark, with anything a C and above considered passing, but many schools across the county have shown improvement. All of the county’s high schools earned a B or higher. Elida schools Superintendent Jim Daugherty was cel...
link Lillian Bowe: Staff photo Roosevelt County will stop paying trash dumping fees for county residents at the Portales’ Convenience Center. The center allows city and county residents to dump trash, metal, furniture and various other items. Staff writer [email protected] Roosevelt County will no longer be paying the fee for county residents to dump trash at the Portales Convenience Center, it was decided Thursday at a special Commission meeting. With an increase in e... Full story
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Staff writer lbowe@pntonline Roosevelt County Manager Charlene Webb’s letter of resignation was accepted by Roosevelt County Commissioners on Thursday at a special meeting. The county’s Human Resources Director Jena Wilbanks was named interim manager. Webb received the Grant County manager job on Tuesday and her last day as Roosevelt County manager will be Aug. 28. Webb has been county manager since 2001 and said she is a native of Grant County, so the new job will be closer to home. “I’m excited for the new opportunity,” Web...
link Audra Brown Local columnist ’Tis the season for bull-buying. The choices are many and so are the dollars. It’s a critical decision point for any cattleraiser. For a beef producer like me, the end game is all about pounds, and color. That’s right. Color. Why? I’d love to know. But the truth is black cattle will bring a premium that other shades don’t. And spots? Don’t even get me started. Some cattle buyers will cut out a spotted calf faster than a cripple. But I just...
Friday Aerobics — 7:30 a.m., Portales Recreation Center. Information: 575-356-8598. Baseball Camp — 9 a.m. to noon, Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball field. The camp is for kindergarten through 8th grade. The cost is $50. Information: 575-562-2974. Friday Flix — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library. All ages. Information: 575-356-3940. Step aerobics — 4 p.m., Portales Recreation Center. Information: 575-356-8598. Summer Celebration — 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Eastern New Mexico University’s Administration Building grounds. I... Full story
link Pat Cantwell Religion columnist As a child of seven, over a period of months, I learned about sin through a study of the Ten Commandments. Romans 3:20 says, “for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” The first commandment explained who God is, what He had done for us, and what He required us to do and not to do. But it wasn't until the seventh commandment, “You shalt not steal,” that I learned I had sinned. I had taken some tiny plastic doll dishes home from my friend'...
Portales police, sheriff and fire call logs: Caller reported: Wednesday • 12:27 a.m.: Motor vehicle accident hit and run, location unknown. • 1:01 a.m.: Burglary in progress, 700 block of West 18th Street. • 1:37 a.m.: Public affray in progress, location unknown. • 1:48 a.m.: Suspicious circumstances, location unknown. • 1:57 a.m.: Ambulance request, 1200 block of East Elbe. • 2:26 a.m.: Suspicious circumstances, 200 block of Texas Drive. • 4 a.m.: Ambulance request, 600 block of Wylie Cox. • 5:39 a.m.: Fire, U.S. 70. • 6:54...
link ... Flight plans, pre-flight checks, and talking to aircraft control are just a few of the things a pilot has to do before ever taking their plane off the ground. Pilots use the training and skills they’ve learned to ensure safe and secure flights for themselves, passengers, cargo, and other aircraft. Local pilots Trevor Bridges and Robert Thorne answered a few questions about what it’s like to be an airplane pilot. • Pilots receive hours of training and instr...
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Despite tougher DWI laws and initiatives enacted over the past decade or so, we still have drivers eluding the long arm of the law. Repeatedly. Take the case of Celestino Centeno, arrested recently on his 13th DWI after he backed out of a driveway and slammed into a curb. Centeno denied drinking but had “alcohol emitting from his breath, thick speech and bloodshot watery eyes,” according to a criminal complaint. Luckily, he didn’t hurt or kill someone, which far too often happens in New Mexico when alleged drunken drive... Full story
link Kent McManigal Local columnist Why would anyone want liberty? It requires responsibility,, after all. It removes most of your opportunities to whine and blame everyone else when things go wrong. It leads to minding your own business. Where’s the fun in that? Well, there are benefits. What is liberty? According to Thomas Jefferson, “Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.” “Unobstructed action” — absolutely anything which doesn’t vio...
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link Rube Render Local columnist If you follow politics at all you have probably heard that the tea party wing of the Republican Party is either alive and surging or is for all intents and purposes dead in the water. Eric Cantor’s primary loss in the Virginia primary proved the tea party was in ascendance while Lindsey Graham’s victory in the South Carolina primary on the same day showed exactly the opposite. Pundits and talking heads had a field day analyzing the split bet...
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Staff report RICHARDSON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University was picked for last place in the six-team Lone Star Conference preseason soccer poll, but Zias junior Alyxandra “Xan” Ortiz has been chosen the Lone Star Conference women’s soccer preseason goalkeeper of the year. link ENMU athletic communications ENMU junior Alyxandra “Xan” Ortiz, shown making a save during a match last season, was chosen the Lone Star Conference women’s soccer preseason goalkeeper of the year in...
link ... Staff report RICHARDSON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University was picked for last place in the six-team Lone Star Conference preseason soccer poll, but Zias junior Alyxandra “Xan” Ortiz has been chosen the Lone Star Conference women’s soccer preseason goalkeeper of the year. Ortiz, from Rio Rancho, started eight games for the Zias in 2013, allowing an LSC-best seven goals with a .845 save percentage. She finished the year with three shutouts and a 4-2-3 record. ENMU has both of its keepers back from last year in Ort...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] A contract for the city’s $1.86 million purchase of water rights adjacent to Cannon Air Force Base was approved during a special meeting of the city commission Thursday at the Clovis-Carver Library. After months of discussion between the city and the Economic Development and Tax Advisory Board, which is involved because economic development funds are being used, the city is set to purchase 930 acres of water rights from farmer J.L. Wall. The water rights would help maintain a water supply f...
link Amos the Church Mouse Illustrated by Gary Mitchell Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks – except dashes and hyphens. boss there have been some strange air currents passing through the church pew underworld these days in alfred hitchcock-style the birds have landed and they re causing more ruckus than an octopus on a merry-go-round first came the p...
STAFF WRITER [email protected] To clinical psychologist Elizabeth Dinsmore, Tony Day has problems in perceiving situations and people’s motives for what they really are, a circumstance that is hard to treat. But to others who testified Wednesday, Tony Day was a well behaved young man and a good student. Day is facing first-degree murder charges in the slayings of his mother, Sue Day, 76, and her daughter Sherry Folts, 48, on Nov. 26, 2012, in the family’s home near Tucumcari. Dinsmore explained her findings under que...
