Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Wednesday briefing. Fundraiser There’s a Meals on Wheels fundraiser — 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Thursday at the Rib Crib BBQ and Grill in Clovis. Pick up a flyer at Clovis Curry County Chamber of Commerce, bring the flyer into the restaurant and 10 percent of your ticket will go to Meals On Wheels. Information: 742-0200 Canceled The U.S. Air Force Band of the West Saxophone Quartet Concert, scheduled at 7 p.m. on Monday at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, has been c... Full story
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Wednesday briefing. Fundraiser There’s a Meals on Wheels fundraiser — 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Thursday at the Rib Crib BBQ and Grill in Clovis. Pick up a flyer at Clovis Curry County Chamber of Commerce, bring the flyer into the restaurant and 10 percent of your ticket will go to Meals On Wheels. Information: 742-0200 Canceled The U.S. Air Force Band of the West Saxophone Quartet Concert, scheduled at 7 p.m. on Monday at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, has been c... Full story
What do you do when someone approaches you in the Wal-Mart parking lot. They need money to go to Albuquerque or somewhere and have run out of gas and don’t have money? That’s a typical line. I get annoyed. I wonder why they’re traveling broke. Do they expect others to finance their trip? At least when I commuted to work in Houston in 2009, people offered a service. Guys stood in medians, taking donations for bottled water they’d hand out. At one intersection, a guy dashed out and cleaned my windshield before I had time to sto...
File photo Bovine tuberculosis restrictions lifted on the New Mexico beef and dairy industries Tuesday could mean an economic bonus for the state and a collective sigh of relief for producers in Curry and Roosevelt counties. Robin Fornoff Bovine tuberculosis restrictions lifted on the New Mexico beef and dairy industries Tuesday could mean an economic bonus for the state and a collective sigh of relief for producers in Curry and Roosevelt counties. “It’s very good news,” said Walter Bradley of Clovis, a former lieut...
Samplings of recent calls made to Portales law enforcement, according to police reports: Friday • At 2:30 a.m., an officer observed a vehicle park illegally on the side of the road. When the driver stepped from the vehicle, the officer observed him stumbling and an odor of liquor coming from him. The man told the officer he believed he was pulled over because he was drunk. The man told the officer he had been drinking and agreed to submit to a field sobriety test. The man was arrested for driving while intoxicated....
Portales calf roper Jerrad Hofstetter will be making his third trip to professional rodeo’s season-ending championship. Hofstetter, who was named “Rookie of the Year” in 2005, said this year was a bad one for his rodeo career and he had every intention of calling it quits for the year after the Justin Boots Championship in Omaha, Neb. “I went in with the 12th spot,” Hofstetter said. “My wife and I were pretty much planning on being done for the year and going home. I was just wanting to make enough to get us through the...
From high school on, whenever somebody would pull out some kind of school or office supply decorated in camouflage, there would always be some kind of joke. “Wow, John ... how is that pencil eraser just floating in the air? It’s magical. Oh, oh, sorry ... I didn’t see the pencil because it was camouflage.” Innocent joke, never failed at a cheap laugh. The University of South Carolina debuted a special uniform Saturday in its college football game at Auburn. The uniforms, made by Under Armour, were created to be auction...
Robin Fornoff Bovine tuberculosis restrictions lifted on the New Mexico beef and dairy industries Tuesday could mean an economic bonus for the state and a collective sigh of relief for producers in Curry and Roosevelt counties. “It’s very good news,” said Walter Bradley of Clovis, a former lieutenant governor and now spokesman for Dairy Farmers of America. Bradley explained the restrictions limited transportation of cattle across state lines — a huge impediment to several large dairy calf farm operations in Curry and R... Full story
Freedom New Mexico Call it hippie abuse. We’ve all heard about undocumented immigrants and their absurd conundrum: They cannot get documents, in part, because they lack documents that are needed to get documents. Duh. Our economy wants them, needs them and taxes them. Meanwhile, the law makes certain they live underground without the licenses and insurance they would need to ever live safely and in accordance with law. Some came here by crossing the border illegally, but millions simply overstayed work or student visas and t...
The importance of Medicaid to New Mexicans is detailed in a report released jointly by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the American Diabetes Association, the American Lung Association, and the health care consumer group Families USA. Hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans are covered by Medicaid. Of this number: • An estimated 6,900 New Mexicans on Medicaid have cancer, including 240 children, 4,020 adults and 2,640 seniors; • An estimated 29,990 New Mexicans on Medicaid received treatment for...
Sixty-six percent of the most seriously wounded soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq have “invisible” injuries of brain trauma or post-traumatic stress, which their families and society will be dealing with at great cost for decades, said Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff. “The truth is, because we don’t see these injuries…they don’t receive the same level of attention as amputations, burns, shrapnel injuries,” Chiarelli said. Chiarelli made his remarks last week at Defense Forum Washing... Full story
Freedom New Mexico Call it hippie abuse. We’ve all heard about undocumented immigrants and their absurd conundrum: They cannot get documents, in part, because they lack documents that are needed to get documents. Duh. Our economy wants them, needs them and taxes them. Meanwhile, the law makes certain they live underground without the licenses and insurance they would need to ever live safely and in accordance with law. Some came here by crossing the border illegally, but millions simply overstayed work or student visas and t... Full story
Sixty-six percent of the most seriously wounded soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq have “invisible” injuries of brain trauma or post-traumatic stress, which their families and society will be dealing with at great cost for decades, said Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff. “The truth is, because we don’t see these injuries…they don’t receive the same level of attention as amputations, burns, shrapnel injuries,” Chiarelli said. Chiarelli made his remarks last week at Defense Forum Washing...
From high school on, whenever somebody would pull out some kind of school or office supply decorated in camouflage, there would always be some kind of joke. “Wow, John ... how is that pencil eraser just floating in the air? It’s magical. Oh, oh, sorry ... I didn’t see the pencil because it was camouflage.” Innocent joke, never failed at a cheap laugh. The University of South Carolina debuted a special uniform Saturday in its college football game at Auburn. The uniforms, made by Under Armour, were created to be auction...
Freedom New Mexico Curry County jail officials violated jail policy when they left an inmate who hanged himself alone for more than an hour on Sept. 26, records show. Aaron Quinones was left alone in a private cell for one hour and 18 minutes, Curry County Undersheriff Wesley Waller said last week. Jail policy, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act this week by the Clovis News Journal, states Quinones should have been checked every 30 minutes. Curry County Manager Lance Pyle said the county is conducting an...
