Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Freedom New Mexico Clark Colson, 78, of Portales shot a score of 7-under-par 65 last Friday at Portales Country Club. Playing with Colson were Wayne Moore, Bobby Crane and Darwin Chenault.... Full story
Associated professor serves as program director Eastern New Mexico University Associate Professor of Physics Bill Andersen served as director of the Summer Science Program at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus June 18 through July 24. Out of around 670 applicants, 72 students from around the globe were chosen to attend. The Summer Science Program summer school session gives the opportunity to receive college-level instruction and hands-on participation in real life projects to high school students who...
Seven New Mexico small rural hospitals have joined together to form the New Mexico Rural Hospital Network and have received a federal planning grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to help with the initiative. The grant was awarded through a highly competitive process to only 15 groups in the country. The Network hospitals will work together to improve rural health care through sharing resources, best practices, and joint advocacy. The Network will also work with other rural hospital networks... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Brad Heath of Clovis signs in to vote at Precinct 18 while precinct clerk Pat Moody assists at Zia Elementary School during the affordable housing referendum Tuesday. Heath brought along his son, Brad Heath, 8, to provide him a lesson on his civic duty to vote. The mood in the Assembly Room at City Hall was quiet and verging on somber as city officials watched the tally of votes against the Affordable Housing Ordinance grow on a white board....
Roosevelt General Hospital joined six other rural New Mexico hospitals to form the New Mexico Rural Hospital Network. They have received a federal planning grant from the Health Resources and Services to help with the initiative. “By working cooperatively and leveraging resources, we can strengthen all of our rural hospitals and improve the health in the communities we serve,” said Michael Carter, CEO of Miner’s Colfax Medical Center in Raton and president of the network. The network hospitals are to work together to impro... Full story
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Wednesday briefing. Fair warning From 10:30 p.m. Saturday to 2:30 a.m. Sunday, officers of the Clovis Police Department will be conducting a DWI Check Point within the City of Clovis. Officers will be specifically targeting drunk and drug impaired drivers Schedules set Portales Municipal Schools scheduling is finished, according to the district website. Schedule pickup information is available at: http://www.portalesschools.com/ Kitchen tip When boiling corn on the cob, add...
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Wednesday briefing. Fair warning From 10:30 p.m. Saturday to 2:30 a.m. Sunday, officers of the Clovis Police Department will be conducting a DWI Check Point within the City of Clovis. Officers will be specifically targeting drunk and drug impaired drivers Schedules set Portales Municipal Schools scheduling is finished, according to the district website. Schedule pickup information is available at: http://www.portalesschools.com/ Kitchen tip When boiling corn on the cob, add... Full story
The Curry County Commission has voted 4-1 to request proposals for an automated security system at the county courthouse. At their meeting Tuesday, Commissioner Frank Blackburn voted against the measure, and commissioners Daniel Stoddard, Caleb Chandler, Wendell Bostwick and Robert Sandoval voted for it. The vote came after a presentation by David Barnes of Isotec Security Inc. “No facility using Isotec Security anti-terrorism technology has even suffered an armed assault,” Barnes said. Barnes said Isotec Security tec...
Freedom New Mexico: Alisa Boswell Portales Firefighter Chay Chenault checks fire equipment on one of the Portales fire trucks Tuesday afternoon. This fire season has marked one of the worst and the longest for eastern New Mexico and fire officials say it could last well into the fall. Usually, August and September would mean the end of fire season is approaching for Roosevelt County. But according to state and local fire officials, that may not be the case this year. “This fire season is very comparable to the fire season i...
Usually, August and September would mean the end of fire season is approaching for Roosevelt County. But according to state and local fire officials, that may not be the case this year. “This fire season is very comparable to the fire season in 2006,” said Dan Ware, spokesperson for the New Mexico Forestry Division. “It’s the drought; it’s the fact that we had a great year last year as far as moisture goes, which caused a lot of vegetation to grow, so when things dried up this year, there was a lot of fuel for fire.” Ware sai...
Samplings of recent calls to Portales law enforcement, according to police records:... Full story
When I lived in Abilene, Texas, a fanatical preacher wrongly predicted a seven-year drought during a desperate dry spell like we’re experiencing this heated summer. At the risk of sounding not-as-fanatical, I predict a major quenching over our Llano Estacado during fair week. Never fails. I don’t recommend a do-it-yourself rain dance. But this reminds me of the summer of 2005 when I went to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico with an Eastern New Mexico University group. We were at Uxmal Mayan ruins and climbed a pyramid str...
Residents, business owners and public officials are using the social network Facebook to organize a protest against the start of Phase 1 of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System’s Ute Pipeline Project. The groundbreaking for the ENMRWS project is set for 11:30 a.m. Aug. 11 along the south side shore a Ute Lake Reservoir. A grassroots movement has been started calling local residents to picket the site on the day of the groundbreaking. “Our main concern is the economy and livelihood of Logan and Quay County,” said local...
I have a list. It’s not on any piece of paper, or any task list on my phone or computer. It’s in my mind, titled, “Things I Must Do While Visiting Montana.” While visiting Montana last month, I tackled the list — including restaurants, landmarks and a small baseball park about 40 minutes from where I grew up. Helena’s Kindrick Field is one of eight parks the Pioneer League calls home, and it’s on the list. Every visit, I watch players stand in the same batter’s boxes as George Brett and Ryne Sandberg did in their Pion... Full story
I have a list. It’s not on any piece of paper, or any task list on my phone or computer. It’s in my mind, titled, “Things I Must Do While Visiting Montana.” While visiting Montana last month, I tackled the list — including restaurants, landmarks and a small baseball park about 40 minutes from where I grew up. Helena’s Kindrick Field is one of eight parks the Pioneer League calls home, and it’s on the list. Every visit, I watch players stand in the same batter’s boxes as George Brett and Ryne Sandberg did in their Pion...
Congressman Doug Lamborn, U.S. representative for Colorado, was recently on a radio show discussing President Obama, the president’s economic policies, and the debt ceiling deals being debated. Lamborn used the phrase “tar baby” to describe working with the president. “I don’t even want to have to be associated with him. It’s like touching a tar-baby, and you get it — you know, you’re stuck, and you’re part of the problem now, and you can’t get away,” Lamborn said on the Caplis and Silverman show in Denver. Nearly all...
Gen. Martin Dempsey, Army chief of staff, seemed to splash figurative cold water on ideas surfacing at the Pentagon and elsewhere to cut future retirement obligations and other personnel costs, deeply and soon. Testifying at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dempsey acknowledged that personnel costs are becoming untenable, particularly as the debt crisis drives down spending. In the Army, he said, manpower costs already consume 42 percent of...
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s office issued this press release Tuesday...
Gen. Martin Dempsey, Army chief of staff, seemed to splash figurative cold water on ideas surfacing at the Pentagon and elsewhere to cut future retirement obligations and other personnel costs, deeply and soon. Testifying at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dempsey acknowledged that personnel costs are becoming untenable, particularly as the debt crisis drives down spending. In the Army, he said, manpower costs already consume 42 percent of...
Congressman Doug Lamborn, U.S. representative for Colorado, was recently on a radio show discussing President Obama, the president’s economic policies, and the debt ceiling deals being debated. Lamborn used the phrase “tar baby” to describe working with the president. “I don’t even want to have to be associated with him. It’s like touching a tar-baby, and you get it — you know, you’re stuck, and you’re part of the problem now, and you can’t get away,” Lamborn said on the Caplis and Silverman show in Denver. Nearly all...
Residents, business owners and public officials are using the social network Facebook to organize a protest against the start of Phase 1 of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System’s Ute Pipeline Project. The groundbreaking for the ENMRWS project is set for 11:30 a.m. Aug. 11 along the south side shore a Ute Lake Reservoir. A grassroots movement has been started calling local residents to picket the site on the day of the groundbreaking. “Our main concern is the economy and livelihood of Logan and Quay County,” said local...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An explanation, in questions and answers, of key features in the debt-reduction plan, how it would work and possible impacts on programs: Q. Why is the raising of the debt limit important? A. The federal government now must borrow about 40 cents for every dollar it spends. Without congressional action by Tuesday to raise the debt limit, the Treasury would no longer be able to borrow and thus would not be able to pay all its bills. The White House has said that the government sends out 80 million...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An explanation, in questions and answers, of key features in the debt-reduction plan, how it would work and possible impacts on programs: Q. Why is the raising of the debt limit important? A. The federal government now must borrow about 40 cents for every dollar it spends. Without congressional action by Tuesday to raise the debt limit, the Treasury would no longer be able to borrow and thus would not be able to pay all its bills. The White House has said that the government sends out 80 million... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate emphatically passed emergency legislation Tuesday to avoid a first-ever government default, rushing the legislation to President Barack Obama for his signature just hours before the deadline. The vote was 74-26. Obama signed the bill little more than an hour later. Tuesday’s vote capped an extraordinarily difficult Washington battle pitting tea party Republican forces in the House against Obama and Democrats controlling the Senate. The resulting compromise paired an essential increase in the... Full story
