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From the first day of summer practice, Clovis High band members have one competition constantly on their minds: the Zia Marching Festival. Clovis and 31 other bands from New Mexico and neighboring states participate today in Albuquerque in the state’s premier marching competition. “This is what we aim for from the beginning. This is like our Super Bowl,” said senior Priya Sharma, a clarinet player and the band president. “I think we have a really good show this year and a really good band. We’ll just have to see how thing...
Training airspace near Cannon Air Force Base could be expanded by the end of November, according to Air Force officials. A report on the impact of increasing airspace near Cannon was officially released Wednesday. Before the Air Force can make a decision on whether to expand airspace, federal environmental law requires a 30-day public comment period. The New Mexico Training Range Initiative Environmental Impact Statement concludes the airspace expansion would have minimal impact and significantly improve air combat training i...
Jeanne Kircher and her family, from left, Kaitlyn, Cole and Savannah take time to visit the High Plains Quilt Festival at the Memorial Building in Portales on Friday. The girls said they thought the quilts were pretty. CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Full of color and rich with history, dozens of quilts are being displayed this weekend at the High Plains Quilt Festival at the Memorial Building in Portales. Festival chairwoman Elizabeth Lawrence said turnout for the event has been good. Vendors are also reporting that they are...
Full of color and rich with history, dozens of quilts are being displayed this weekend at the High Plains Quilt Festival at the Memorial Building in Portales. Festival chairwoman Elizabeth Lawrence said turnout for the event has been good. Vendors are also reporting that they are happy with the show at this point, Lawrence said. “Everything is going very well,” said Lawrence. Ann Podany, the featured quilter for the festival, has a wide range of quilts on display. An Artesia resident, Podany has been quilting for about 20...
Sandhill cranes are one of the many species that can be observed during the winter months at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, the oldest refuge in Texas. There is a wildlife refuge a short journey away. The Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge is the oldest refuge in Texas and home to 250,000 sandhill cranes during the winter season. And winter is the best time to visit, according to refuge manager Harold Beierman. “We have the largest concentration of sandhill cranes,” Beierman said. Sandhill cranes began arriving at the... Full story
There is a wildlife refuge a short journey away. The Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge is the oldest refuge in Texas and home to 250,000 sandhill cranes during the winter season. And winter is the best time to visit, according to refuge manager Harold Beierman. “We have the largest concentration of sandhill cranes,” Beierman said. Sandhill cranes began arriving at the refuge Oct. 12, according to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service press release. The 5,800-acre refuge was established as a wintering area for waterfowl. When the...
The worst of it was that the murder was so blatant. Anna Politkovskaya, 48, a special correspondent for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, has ruffled the feathers of Russian authorities for a decade, particularly with her unrelenting reporting of Russia’s “dirty war” in Chechnya. The government has been cracking down on independent journalism for several years, and a number of journalists have been murdered in that time, including Paul Klebnikov, the American editor of Forbes magazine’s Russian edition, probably killed for kno...
Editor’s note: Deadline for receiving letters related to the Nov. 7 election is Thursday. Letters addressing new issues will not be published after Nov. 1. On Nov. 7, every voting New Mexico citizen will be given the opportunity to make a positive difference for our state’s universities and colleges. Regardless of your political affiliation, voting for higher education is the right thing to do. As immediate past president and current member of Clovis Community College Foundation Board of Directors I am urging support of thi... Full story
Clovis senior running back Brian Mead (28) became the school's all-time leading rusher with his 188-yard effort during Friday's 34-26 loss to Artesia. Wildcats assistant coach Darren Kelley held the mark for 21 years. (CNJ staff photo: Andy DeLisle) Clovis assistant coach Darren Kelley sees a lot of himself in senior running back Brian Mead. A star running back on three straight Wildcats state championship teams in the mid-1980s, Kelley said like Mead he possessed great quickness, however, the latest in long line of standout...
For a prosecutor, DNA analysis can be the best thing in the world. Nothing facilitates a conviction more than biological evidence irrefutably connecting the defendant to the crime through blood, saliva or semen. But DNA analysis can also be the worst thing in the world for prosecutors. It can prove that someone accused of a crime — or even convicted of a crime — could not possibly have done what he’s accused of doing. Wait a minute. How can it be a bad thing for prosecutors to discover the crucial facts about a crime, even... Full story
