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Freedom does not come without sacrifice and those who have sacrificed their lives shall never be forgotten. Those were the words of Col. Timothy Leahy, Commander of the 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon Air Force Base, as he spoke during the Memorial Day program on Monday at Portales Cemetery. The Memorial Day observation, sponsored by the American Legion Carl McDermott Post No. 31 and its auxiliary, has been held consecutively, without fail in Portales, for the past 62 years. Leahy thanked and saluted Portales for its... Full story
Be smart! Read often! Exercise your mind! And learn a skill so you can support your family and your future! These were words of advice from retiring teacher JoBeth Massey to 14 Dora High School graduates on Sunday. Marching in to the tune of “Against the Wind,” the graduates, all garbed in black, were the final high school class in Roosevelt County in 2008 to be conferred with high school diplomas. Massey told the 2008 graduates, “Life is a journey, not a destination,” and warned them, “We all want to be financial...
Relying mostly on Will Ferrell movie analogies, Donald “Doc” Elder advised 18 Floyd High School graduates on Saturday to make good choices, choose their significant others in life carefully and give back to their communities. Dressed in white gowns and adorned with blue medals, a dozen-and-a-half Floyd Broncos were conferred with degrees during a commencement ceremony in the school gym. According to Lucia Benoit, an English teacher at FHS, all 18 graduates — who have been awarded a combined total of $300,562 in sch...
Myrtie Smith has not missed a single Memorial Day program in Portales since her son, Lloyd E. Smith, was killed during the Vietnam War in 1967 at the age of 22. “Lloyd was in the 173rd Airborne. They dropped out of a mountain and the Viet Kong were already there,” Smith said. “Memorial Day means a lot to me because we lost our boys. There were just two from Roosevelt County who were killed in the Vietnam War.” Smith said all three of her sons were in the service, with Lloyd being the only one to be stationed out of the countr...
Record-high fuel and grocery prices may translate into more children seeking free meals in a summer lunch program, sponsored by Portales Municipal Schools, which begins on Tuesday. “I’m actually anticipating our participation to go up this year because of high gas prices and grocery prices,” said Shirley Chatterton, food services director for Portales schools. “Through the summer lunch program, this is an opportunity for children to continue to get a well balanced meal.” Chatterton added that the program is also a big savin... Full story
Thirty-two members of St. Helen Catholic Church in Portales will help fix a hurricane-damaged home next month in New Orleans while attending a youth conference in Houma, La. The St. Helen youth group will continue to hold fundraisers to help finance the seven-day trip to Steubenville on the Bayou, one in a series of regional, high-energy, summer conferences held throughout the country every summer by Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. In addition to the youth, several adult chaperones and one priest, Father Jim...
A Chinese exchange student from Eastern New Mexico University wrote in a e-mail she was only home 15 minutes when a devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck China on May 12. In her e-mail to Jason Paulk, director of choral activities, and to Kayla Paulk a vocal coach and accompanist at Eastern, Xinrui Li — known at Eastern by her adopted American name of Sherry Li — writes, “I had just taken a shower... just got a towel in my hand ... I felt the building was shaking a lot ... my house in 12th floor ... so t... Full story
Best-selling author Robert Fulghum says all we really need to know, we learn in kindergarten. With that said, 235 L.L. Brown Early Childhood Center students will graduate from kindergarten during 12 different ceremonies on Wednesday, Thursday and today. It marked a milestone in what is sure to be a continuing educational journey which will include at least a couple of more graduation ceremonies before it is over. In Portales, students also graduate from eighth grade before moving up to high school. They then graduate from... Full story
Having graduating twins means double the trouble and expense, but also double the blessing and cause for celebration, according to Kathy Tarango, whose daughters, Bianca and Dalia Tarango, graduate from Portales High School tonight. The Tarangos are among 159 Portales High School seniors who will receive diplomas during a commencement ceremony at Greyhound Arena. “It’s been hectic but also very interesting,” said Kathy of her twins. “They are both getting prepared to go to college at Eastern New Mexico University. In fact, w...
They say you can’t save time in a bottle, but maybe in a capsule. Several Portales High School seniors who graduate today were part of a third-grade class at R.M. James Elementary School who buried a time capsule in 2000 at the school. They were told that the time capsule would be unearthed when they graduate from high school. PHS senior Anthony Torres is among a group of students reminding others who were a part of the third grade class in Portales to come help them unseal the time capsule at 1 p.m. today. “I’ve been think...
Couples who wind Maypole together sometimes end up tying the knot together. At least two Portales High School seniors who took part in the 79th annual winding of the Maypole on Monday and Tuesday nights have close family members who wound together and shortly after, ended up being bound together, in holy matrimony. Clint Brakebill’s grandparents, Corte and Cleta Prude, wound the Maypole at PHS in 1949 and married that year. Another PHS senior, Heather Stroud, has an aunt and uncle, Josephine and Tommy Patterson, who wound i...
Five Eastern New Mexico University faculty selected for Presidential Awards represent the university’s best, said ENMU President Steven Gamble. He presented awards during graduation Saturday to Kathy Durand, Donald Elder, Felipe Macias, John Olsen and Suzanne Swift. “They represent different disciplines, but they all do a great job for our students and for the university,” Gamble said. Presidential Award winners at Eastern are nominated by their peers and then a dean’s council determines the winners. Swift, who was honored fo...
PNT Staff Writer [email protected] Eastern New Mexico University graduated 355 students on Saturday, and among these new college graduates are five Elida students who make up almost half of the Elida High School Class of 2004. Also on Saturday, an honorary posthumous degree was presented to Kent and Sherri Best, parents of Heidi Best, a 2003 graduate of Elida High School who died on June 15, 2007, following a car accident. At the time of her death, Best was nearly finished work on a bachelor of science degree... Full story
My pen runneth dry. This is the part of the movie where we each go our separate ways and the little blurry words, too small to read, come down the screen, along with notes of thanks to people too numerous to name while my many bloopers roll in the upper part of the screen. I’ve had more than a few of those. I’ve occupied a spot on this editorial page for almost five years now — opening my life, my heart, and often, against her will, making my 17-year-old daughter Laura’s life an open book as well. But I’ve almost... Full story
Eastern New Mexico University will award 355 college diplomas during Saturday’s 110th annual commencement. Jose Mike Jimenez of Roswell will receive his master's degree in English following a first career as an insurance adjuster and a 20-year hiatus from any kind of classroom. “The Eastern experience here was incredible. I loved being here. The program was awesome. I learned everything I needed to learn to do what I want to do,” said Jimenez. Following graduation, he will teach English at ENMU as well as on the ENMU-Roswell... Full story
My pen runneth dry. This is the part of the movie where we each go our separate ways and the little blurry words, too small to read, come down the screen, along with notes of thanks to people too numerous to name while my many bloopers roll in the upper part of the screen. I’ve had more than a few of those. I’ve occupied a spot on this editorial page for almost five years now — opening my life, my heart, and often, against her will, making my 17-year-old daughter Laura’s life an open book as well. But I’ve almost...
Children at Sylvia Martinez’s school at Lockwood Elementary in Clovis call her Mrs. Dr. Martinez. “That inspires them to get a good education!” Martinez says. “But for me, the title is not a big thing. It’s the journey that it took to get there. It took a lot of years of focusing!” Sylvia and her husband, Paul Carlos Anaya, both have new abbreviations before their names. The Portales couple both completed doctoral degrees in education from Kansas State University recently, earning the rights to place a “Dr.” before their na...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is mapping the entire county for an updated flood insurance plan and Roosevelt County commissioners wants to ensure residents are aware of any flood zone changes this time around. According to County Manager, Charlene Hardin, FEMA will be gathering data over the next 30 days. Following that, they will begin compiling maps. A process of public hearings and appeals will then be held and then the county will have six months to comply with the National Flood Insurance Program.... Full story
The city of Portales wants to see more people downtown: Shopping, congregating, walking, bicycling, eating and even living downtown. It’s all part of a master plan to make the downtown area more walkable, shopable and livable. The master plan and downtown zoning code was presented to a crowd of about 30 people on Monday night at the Memorial Building by Lee Einsweiler of Code Studio of Austin, Texas, a company hired by the city to design the plan. In two weeks, the public will have an opportunity to give input during a p... Full story
While campaigning through southeastern New Mexico this past week, Democratic Congressional District 3 candidate, Ben R. Lujan, sat down with the Portales News-Tribune to answer some questions regarding his positions on some major political issues. Lujan is seeking to win the Democratic primary in a congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Tom Udall. Currently, Lujan is a New Mexico Public Regulation Commissioner and represents 11 counties in Congressional District 3. He began his term on the PRC in January of 2005. He has... Full story
While campaigning through southeastern New Mexico this past week, Democratic Congressional District 3 candidate, Ben R. Lujan, sat down with the Freedom New Mexico to answer some questions regarding his positions on some major political issues. Lujan is seeking to win the Democratic primary in a congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Tom Udall. Currently, Lujan is a New Mexico Public Regulation Commissioner and represents 11 counties in Congressional District 3. He began his term on the PRC in January of 2005. He has... Full story
The New Mexico Association of Counties is meeting in Portales today for the first time in its history. The group plans to discuss issues ranging from county budgets and wildfires, to CPR training for state employees and federal benefits for jail inmates. Representatives from all of the state’s 33 counties will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Eastern New Mexico University Campus Union Building. Mike Anaya of Santa Fe, president of the association, said that the public is welcome to come and visit with county officials f... Full story
Welcome to Cinco de Mayo 101. For today’s history lesson — which will not include step-by-step instructions on how to make the ultimate taco; watch the Today show for that — we’ll learn actual history. Some of you may ask, “Why is Cinco de Mayo celebrated in the U.S.?” After all, it is a Mexican holiday. But more than that, it’s also a part of U.S. history, which I will explain later. Others of you may also ask, “Why has Cinco de Mayo become a bigger deal today in the United States than in Mexico?” My answer to...
A city-wide Cinco de Mayo celebration in Portales on Saturday at Lindsey Park will feature live music, a softball tournament, a horseshoe tournament, pi...
A city-wide Cinco de Mayo celebration in Portales on Saturday at Lindsey Park will feature live music, a softball tournament, a horseshoe tournament, pi...
