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Texas high school football teams kick off preseason practice on Monday, and for second-year Farwell coach Mark Anglin it couldn’t come soon enough. “I’ve been ready to start football since June,” Anglin said. “It’s what I love doing.” The Steers went 5-5 last season, including 1-3 in District 4-1A. The district has picked up a sixth member this season in Claude, a team Farwell defeated in non-district play last year. Anglin expects a turnout in the low 40s, adding his team has some holes to fill with just two starters retu...
he Eastern New Mexico University football team is hoping to prove the pundits wrong. Picked for last place in the seven-team Lone Star Conference South Division, players began checking in on Saturday for Monday’s first practice session. ENMU opens the season Aug. 25 against NAIA member Bacone College at Muskogee, Okla. Third-year coach Mark Ribaudo is confident the Greyhounds have the talent to do well this season. “Nobody really knows our team,” he said of the conference poll. “It’s kind of unscientific. We think we’ve got...
CNJ Staff Photo: Gabriel Monte Layton Guthals, 8, tries on a pair of shoes Saturday at Randy’s Shoes on Main Street. New Mexico’s sales tax holiday on clothing, school supplies and computers continues today. Eastern New Mexico shoppers filed into stores Friday and Saturday to take advantage of the state’s third annual tax-free holiday. Today is the last day to buy school-related products such as school supplies that sell for less than $15, clothing and shoes priced under $100, computers costing no more than $1,000 and compu...
Editorial Civil libertarians, including us, routinely assail the administration for its restrictions on our liberties in the war on terrorism. We sometimes overstate our complaints, charging that Bush & Co. have taken so many of our freedoms that we might as well be living in the old Soviet Union. Then we see a story that reminds us of how free we really are, especially when those reports are from nations most wouldn’t consider especially restrictive. A recent news report out of Spain noted that a judge had ordered copies o...
CNJ Staff Photo: Gabriel Monte Vendors set up their stands Saturday at the Clovis Flea Market on Seventh Street and R.L. Moreno Road. The last flea market brought the Purriers to Clovis from Minnesota about two years ago. But when they got here, it closed. So, Sherry Purrier said, they bought a house instead. She and her husband, Marvin, ran a flea market in south-central Minnesota. When the Clovis Flea Market opened on Seventh Street at R.L. Moreno Road, they couldn’t wait to set up a stand and sell used jeans. “We both got...
Wednesday not only marked the beginning of the month, but the beginning of back-to-school training for 11-year-old Christian Smith of Portales. That means no more late movie nights and lights out at 8:30 p.m. With only a little more than a week before area school bells ring, school counselors and principals, as well as other educational experts, recommend parents start getting their children and themselves ready for school now. That doesn’t just mean shopping for clothes and supplies. Arts Academy at Bella Vista Principal S...
He liked a laugh and a good cigar. He enjoyed plenty of both. Robert “Bob” E. Huber, journalist, freelance writer and newspaper columnist, died early Friday morning at his home in Portales. He was best known in Portales and Clovis for his weekly humor column that ran in the Portales News-Tribune and Clovis News Journal. He was 76. “I’ll miss him, I’ll miss his laugh,” said his daughter Holly Huber of Roswell. “He was a true practical joker. He loved to make people laugh.” While he liked to make people laugh, he had no probl...
Samplings of recent calls received by Clovis-area law enforcement officers, according to reports: Around 12:15 a.m. July 28 an officer was dispatched to a hotel in the 2600 block of Mabry Drive for an unknown situation. A woman said a female guest had come to her room to say her boyfriend was battering her. The officers entered the room in question when there was no answer at the door and found a man hiding in the shower and a female in the room who denied being battered....
Applications are being accepted for a judgeship position in the 9th Judicial District Court vacated last week by former District Judge Joe Parker, according to a news release from the Judicial Nominating Commission. Attorneys meeting statutory qualifications may submit applications until 5 p.m. Aug. 17. Applications are available by calling 277-4700 or visiting http://lawschool.unm.edu/judsel/application.php. The nominating commission will meet at 9 a.m. Aug. 30 in Portales to evaluate applicants. Candidates will be...
Civil libertarians, including us, routinely assail the administration for its restrictions on our liberties in the war on terrorism. We sometimes overstate our complaints, charging that Bush & Co. have taken so many of our freedoms that we might as well be living in the old Soviet Union. Then we see a story that reminds us of how free we really are, especially when those reports are from nations most wouldn’t consider especially restrictive. A recent news report out of Spain noted that a judge had ordered copies of the s...
A hayride turned into a tragedy Friday evening when an 8-year-old Fort Sumner girl was killed after falling beneath a trailer being pulled by a tractor, according to officials. Anna Marie Unruh was riding on the trailer with a group of adults and children when she attempted to jump off, according to Deputy Medical Investigator Juan Chavez. On the jump, she caught her foot and fell beneath the trailer, he said. She sustained extensive head and chest injuries as a result of being run over by the right-side tire of the trailer,...
Send message; buy gas in Texas There is a foul odor in Clovis, and that is the price of gasoline. If Farwell stations can sell gas for $2.89 a gallon (and sometimes less), does anyone really believe it costs 30 cents to haul it 10 miles to Clovis? There is price fixing in Clovis. If everyone will drive to Farwell, hit these Clovis stations where it hurts, the price will come down. Bill Lee Clovis U.S. moral arrogance the problem What the heck is it that many Iraqis, others living in Muslim countries and al-Qaida/Taliban...
The dirt was flying during the second day of competition Saturday evening at the 41st Little Wranglers Junior Rodeo buckle finals at the Mounted Patrol Arena in Portales. More than 70 of Roosevelt County’s best young cowboys and cowgirls, ages 6-18, are competing in nine events for buckles and — for the first time in the program’s 40-year history — saddles. According to event organizers, the saddles are worth approximately $600. “That’s a big deal to a kid, getting a saddle,” Little Wranglers President Rustin Rowley said. “Pl...
The Eastern New Mexico University football team is hoping to prove the pundits wrong. Picked for last place in the seven-team Lone Star Conference South Division, players began checking in on Saturday for Monday’s first practice session. ENMU opens the season Aug. 25 against NAIA member Bacone College at Muskogee, Okla. Third-year coach Mark Ribaudo is confident the Greyhounds have the talent to do well this season. “Nobody really knows our team,” he said of the conference poll. “It’s kind of unscientific. We think we’ve got...
He liked a laugh and a good cigar. He enjoyed plenty of both. Robert “Bob” E. Huber, journalist, freelance writer and newspaper columnist, died early Friday morning at his home in Portales. He was best known in Portales and Clovis for his weekly humor column that ran in the Portales News-Tribune and Clovis News Journal. He was 76. “I’ll miss him, I’ll miss his laugh,” said his daughter Holly Huber of Roswell. “He was a true practical joker. He loved to make people laugh.” While he liked to make people laugh, he had no probl...
Wednesday not only marked the beginning of the month, but the beginning of back-to-school training for 11-year-old Christian Smith of Portales. That means no more late movie nights and lights out at 8:30 p.m. With only a little more than a week before area school bells ring, school counselors and principals, as well as other educational experts, recommend parents start getting their children and themselves ready for school now. That doesn’t just mean shopping for clothes and supplies. Shelly Norris, principal at Arts A...
Eastern New Mexico residents filed into stores Friday and Saturday to take advantage of the state’s third annual tax-free holiday. The weekend provides a chance for New Mexicans to buy school supplies for less than $15, clothing (including shoes, but excluding specialty items such as football pads) less than $100, computers less than $1,000 and computer accessories less than $500 without any sales tax. The weekend lasts through today. Paul Encinias, assistant manager for Portales’ Wal-Mart electronics department, said custome...
The annual field day for New Mexico State University’s Agricultural Science Center at Clovis Tuesday will highlight crop research and dairy production relating to New Mexico, according to an NMSU news release. The program will include a rolling tour of crop research projects being conducted at the center, followed by breakout sessions to highlight specific research and Cooperative Extension Service programs related to irrigation efficiency, alternative cropping systems and dairy production. The new six-acre sub-surface d...
We have a report card on our school systems called Adequate Yearly Progress behind us. Unfortunately, few people outside the education system know what it means. They just see “fail” marks. AYP, as it’s known, is the state’s annual assessment results of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The premise of the 2002 act is to have every child in America 100 percent proficient in reading and math by 2014. A worthy goal, but the devil is in the details of this federally-mandated idea and those details bite harder every year. Scho...
This week I took my youngest daughter, 11 months old, to a play date with several other moms, which was really an opportunity for me to enjoy some grownup company. As it often happens when women get together, our conversation eventually drifted toward issues of weight and looks, culminating with a general complaint about the fact that children, age and gravity take a toll on our bodies. Yes, the conversation is a cliché, but it’s cliché for a reason – it’s on our minds. And also on our minds is whether and what we can do...
