Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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LCU courtesy photo Izzy Miranda, left, said his goal this year is to make it to nationals, which he has done the past two seasons, and finish in the top 30 — which would give him All-American honors. The best cross country runner for the men’s team this year at Lubbock Christian University is former Clovis High standout Izzy Miranda. He’s also a guy who’s been known to wow onlookers with his soccer skills. But perhaps the highest tribute to the LCU junior has nothing to do with pure athletic prowess. Instead, it has t... Full story
The driver of a wrong-way vehicle police say claimed the life of former Portales High three-sport standout Ashleah Richards is facing felony charges. Jimmey Scott Barnhill of Midland, Texas, was indicted Nov. 19 on one count of intoxicated manslaughter for the death of Richards, 21. Police said on Oct. 11, Barnhill drove his vehicle south in the northbound lanes of I-27 and smashed into Richards’s car about three miles south of Hale Center, Texas. Barnhill was also charged with four counts of intoxicated assault. Barnhill cou...
The driver of a wrong-way vehicle police say claimed the life of former Portales High three-sport standout Ashleah Richards, is facing felony charges. Jimmey Scott Barnhill of Midland, Texas, was indicted Nov. 19 on one count of intoxicated manslaughter for the death of Richards, 21. Police said on Oct. 11, Barnhill drove his vehicle south in the northbound lanes of I-27and smashed into Richards’s car about three miles south of Hale Center, Texas. Barnhill was also charged with four counts of intoxicated assault. Barnhill c...
Many residents of Clovis and Portales will have their eyes peeled on the weather, either through looking at the conditions directly or through updates via various media, as a cold front moves through Eastern New Mexico on Tuesday. That’s also true for Curry and Roosevelt County emergency management personnel, whose job entails further informing the public about bad weather and road conditions. “One of the first sites I go to every morning, for work, is weather stuff,” said Ken De Los Santos, emergency management direc... Full story
Many residents of Clovis and Portales will have their eyes peeled on the weather, either through looking at the conditions directly or through updates via various media, as a cold front is expected to move through eastern New Mexico on Tuesday. That’s also true for Curry and Roosevelt County emergency management personnel, whose job entails further informing the public about bad weather and road conditions. “One of the first sites I go to every morning, for work, is weather stuff,” said Ken De Los Santos, emergency manag...
CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Susie Armijo, kitchen manager at Lighthouse Mission, carves one of 26 Thanksgiving turkeys Monday in preparation for Thursday's feast at the Lighthouse. Armijo said she and her staff plan on cooking a total of 31 turkeys. A nice, big turkey dinner is something nearly everyone, at least those raised in that tradition, longs for on Thanksgiving. Big community dinners in Clovis and Portales on Thursday aim to accomplish that goal — without embarrassment or shame for those who cannot afford it... Full story
File photo Don Clark, 72, was a fixture in downtown Clovis as he helped bring visibility to Smyth Auto parts store by waving at passing motorists on Main Street. The 58-year-old store closed for good on Friday. A bygone era in automotive service is truly coming to an end with the closing of Smyth Auto in Clovis. With the closing also goes a friendly greeting that drivers on Main Street have become accustomed to receiving in recent years. Smyth Auto Supply Company first opened its doors in January of 1951. One of the... Full story
Danielle Swopes was 41 years old when her first mammogram turned up the result most women fear: Positive for breast cancer. Because the lump that turned out to be a cancerous tumor was discovered early, the Portales city library employee has continued on with her life. When Swopes thinks about new recommendations for mammogram screenings released from a government-appointed panel of experts early in the week, she bristles. According to the United States Preventive Services Task Force, women should begin regular breast cancer...
File photo One of the items before the commission is a request by the city police department to donate two 2000 Ford Crown Victoria police vehicles to the New Mexico Junior College Police Academy in Hobbs. On a light agenda for today’s meeting of the Clovis City Commission, the topic of boarding up abandoned houses will be front and center. In the four items for the adoption of resolutions and ordinances, three involve the city securing houses by sealing potential entrances. One house on Cypress, one on Mitchell and a...
When the American Cancer Society’s annual Great American Smokeout takes place on Thursday, much attention will be paid to helping people with a bad habit try to quit. In Roosevelt County, Theresa Teti is trying to reach out to those who aren’t quite set in their ways. Teti is the program coordinator for the Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Program, and she works with 160 students at six area schools: Portales High, Portales Junior High, Lindsey Elementary and students in the towns of Dora, Elida and Floyd. Teti was bus...
A fairly light agenda for the Portales City Council meeting at 7 p.m. tonight at City Hall includes two items of business involving possible money for Sunland Inc. City Manager Tom Howell said the business north of Portales is hoping to be partially reimbursed for building a sewer line to connect its plant with the city lines. Howell said Sunland is requesting $60,698 from the city’s Economic Development Tax Fund to offset part of the sewer line construction. Sunland has already received $52,000 from the city and $156,000 f... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Kim Leal, left and Jon Leal watch baby Jonathan take a nap Friday at Plains Regional Medical Center. Jonathan was one day old. Plains Regional Medical Center may have been showing a little when it set new records in 2008 for child births. Now, it’s positively burgeoning as a wave of babies, at least by the hospital’s own past standards, have been born the last six months. The Clovis hospital averaged around 90 births a month during ‘08 and set new statistical records in that department. But t...
Anyone who works in a Clovis or Portales office with more than a dozen people is likely aware that "‘tis the season” for United Way fund drives. After all, it’s companies with several employees that Erinn Burch, executive director of the United Way of Eastern New Mexico, calls the “bread-and-butter” for annual fundraising efforts. “It gives us a chance to get in front of people and ask them to give,” said Burch. Burch has set a goal of $580,000 for the current 2009 campaign. If achieved, that would best the $530,000 garn...
Freedom new Mexico: Tony Bullocks James Bickley principal Todd Morris places some food items into a backpack Friday for student to have for over the weekend. This is one of many programs funded by the United Way of Eastern New Mexico. Anyone who works in a Clovis or Portales office with more than a dozen people is likely aware that "‘tis the season” for United Way fund drives. After all, it’s companies with several employees that Erinn Burch, executive director of the United Way of Eastern New Mexico, calls the “brea... Full story
If anyone asks “What’s the 801?,” it doesn’t have anything to do with an area code or an information service via telephone. For more than 250 families in the Clovis and Portales area, the number represents housing Cannon personnel have access to in the neighboring communities. It’s a chance to live in a neighborhood full of military families, but away from the base itself. But the numbers are starting to run low for that kind of accommodation. “It is currently projected that the 801 housing areas in Clovis and Portales wi... Full story
If anyone asks “What’s the 801?,” it doesn’t have anything to do with an area code or an information service via telephone. For more than 250 families in the Clovis and Portales area, the number represents housing Cannon personnel have access to in the neighboring communities. It’s a chance to live in a neighborhood full of military families, but away from the base itself. But the numbers are starting to run low for that kind of accommodation. “It is currently projected that the 801 housing areas in Clovis and Portales wi...
If anyone asks “What’s the 801?,” it doesn’t have anything to do with an area code or an information service via telephone. For more than 250 families in the Clovis and Portales area, the number represents housing Cannon personnel have access to in the neighboring communities. It’s a chance to live in a neighborhood full of military families, but away from the base itself. But the numbers are starting to run low for that kind of accommodation. “It is currently projected that the 801 housing areas in Clovis and Portales wi... Full story
If anyone asks “What’s the 801?,” it doesn’t have anything to do with an area code or an information service via telephone. For more than 250 families in the Clovis and Portales area, the number represents housing Cannon personnel have access to in the neighboring communities. It’s a chance to live in a neighborhood full of military families, but away from the base itself. But the numbers are starting to run low for that kind of accommodation. “It is currently projected that the 801 housing areas in Clovis and Portales wi... Full story
You could say that Charles Bratcher got into a little bit of a routine while running an auto parts shop in Muleshoe for the last 42 years. Here’s how Bratcher says it: “After you’ve done something for a while, it becomes a habit. I’m kind of in the habit of going over there,” Bratcher said. “I don’t know if my truck will go anywhere else when I leave home.” Located on East Avenue B in Muleshoe, near First Street, Bratcher Motor Supply’s last day of business was Oct. 31. Bratcher sold the business to Marcos Martinez, a residen...
Will the new ENMU live mascots next season be Loyal and True or will it be Vic-Tory whenever the greyhounds make an appearance? The public will decide as Eastern New Mexico University is staging a mascot-naming contest through Nov. 24. Five sets of names for the male and female hounds are the finalists: Loyal and True, Roscoe and Ruby, Emerald and Silver, Thunder and Bolt or Vic and Tory. The champion set of names will be determined through the amount of donations each garners. Voting jars have been set up in the Campus Union...
Courtesy illustration The Tres Amigas station would connect the country's three primary electric grids. With giant modern windmills visible on the horizon, during a day with ample sunshine, Grady was a site most apropos for presentations on renewable energy. At the second annual meeting of the Frio Ridge Energy Development Association (FREDA), one major speaker of interest on Saturday was Phil Harris, CEO and founder of Tres Amigas. Harris is proposing an energy superstation near Clovis to connect the nation’s three p...
With giant modern windmills visible on the horizon, during a day with ample sunshine, Grady was a site most apropos for presentations on renewable energy. At the second annual meeting of the Frio Ridge Energy Development Association (FREDA), one major speaker of interest on Saturday was Phil Harris, CEO and founder of Tres Amigas. Harris is proposing an energy superstation near Clovis to connect the nation’s three primary electricity grid. He was in Grady to ask members of the association for their support. Harris said his co... Full story
CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Manuel Veloz, a landscaper with Fox's Green Thumb Nursery of Clovis, puts metal edging in place Wednesay at a home under construction in the Raintree subdivision of northeast Clovis. New housing permits last month nearly doubled from the previous month in Clovis. Local leaders say it appears construction companies are trying to meet demand expected from additional personnel arriving at Cannon Air Force Base. Permits pulled by local builders jumped from 11 in September to 20 in October. A year... Full story
Call it a little reverse sticker shock. When City of Clovis administrators began opening bids from companies hoping to build a new bridge at Hull Street, it was expected that the cost would be somewhere close to $6 million. That’s because HDR Engineering previously estimated the cost at $5.8 million. Instead, each of the six construction bids were in a range between $3.3 million and $5.1 million. Clovis City Manager Joe Thomas is expected to recommend that the city, at a regular city commission meeting at 5:15 p.m. T...
It’s not a move of desperation, conceived to bring money to a lagging enterprise, but the Hillcrest Park Zoo in Clovis is about to take the next step in raising money. Sponsorships. In a sense, according to zoo employees, local businesses have often been able to attach their name to different parts of the facility by donating goods or money. Now, it’ll just be a little more systematic as each exhibit will be available for a price. “There’ll be a special sign that will have photos of mammals, saying, ‘Sponsored by,’” sai... Full story
