Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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LAS VEGAS, N.M. — For Seth Clabaugh and Cole Parrish, Saturday’s fourth annual Class 3A New Mexico High School Coaches Association all-star football game will lead them into the start of two-a-days in college next month. For Matt Lujan and Brian Berry, it’s a chance to put a cap on their football careers. They are four of Portales’ six players, along with T.J. Nusser and Josh Teague, who are on the 30-man South roster this week. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Saturday at New Mexico Highlands’ Perkins Stadium. Clabaugh,...
CNJ Editorial Perhaps the job itself is not worth a bucket of warm spit, as one of FDR’s vice presidents, John Nance Garner, so famously said. But consider the vice presidents in the last half of the 20th century who went on to become president: Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush. In that context, we believe Sen. John Kerry stumbled in making his first major decision as the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. He chose as his running mate North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, a mil...
As we recently drove past the Stars & Stripes Drive-In Theater in Lubbock, it brought back fond memories of the old Varsity Drive-In in Portales, once located on the Roswell Highway. We took the girls to Texas Water Rampage for the day, and my eyes lit with excitement when we drove past the drive-in theater on the Clovis Highway. Every Sunday night was Spanish movie night at the old Varsity. Before we went, I remember Dad popping a big brown paper bag full of popcorn on the stove, back when you could take your own food....
Just off Thornton Street the other day I saw two boys, probably about 8 years old, sitting on an iron railing chattering and laughing . It got me to thinking about my old friend “Catfish.” Those two Clovis boys reminded me of a summer long ago and far away when things were simpler (key word being “were,” not “seemed,” because they were) — me and Catfish on the back porch of my grandmother’s house having fried bologna on white bread “sammiches” and drinking Grapettes from glass bottles. My grandmother has long passed on, the o...
When commissioners to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted on July 2 not to make a technical change that would have allowed local churches and regional presbyteries to ordain homosexuals, they did so by a narrow margin: 259 to 255. All three local Presbyterian pastors said they were happy with the results. “I believe in equal rights for people of any sexual orientation but I’m not sure leading a church congregation is entirely suitable in the traditional family-oriented church,” said the Rev. Frank...
When it comes to street signs, popularity is in the name. Or the lane — as in Clovis’ Happy Lane. Street signs notifying drivers of the intersection of Happy Lane and Stone Place have become a favorite among Clovis’ sign thieves, city officials say. At one point, street department employees decided to weld the sign to its pole to keep it safe. That didn’t work, though, Assistant City Manager Joe Thomas said. “Someone would just about need a hacksaw to get it out,” Thomas said. “... They would have just about had to dig it...
As we recently drove past the Stars & Stripes Drive-In Theater in Lubbock, it brought back fond memories of the old Varsity Drive-In in Portales, once located on the Roswell Highway. We took the girls to Texas Water Rampage for the day, and my eyes lit with excitement when we drove past the drive-in theater on the Clovis Highway. Every Sunday night was Spanish movie night at the old Varsity. Before we went, I remember Dad popping a big brown paper bag full of popcorn on the stove, back when you could take your own food....
Anita Kay Bass, 69 Anita Kay Bass, 69, of Azle, Texas, died Saturday, July 3, 2004, in Fort Worth, Texas. She was born on Nov. 23, 1934, in Estelline, Texas, to Andy Clinton and Ruth Wright Dunlap. She was raised on a farm, loved music and the outdoors. She graduated from Morton (Texas) High School and was a long-time resident of Muleshoe, where she was involved in farming. She moved to Azle and worked as an office manager in the trucking industry. Family members said she was devoted to family, and enjoyed being with her...
Dan Rideout of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for New Mexico said the case of a Garvey worker who fell from a Garvey processing plant elevator has been completed Two citations were given to the Garvey Processing plant and they have complied, Rideout said. Garvey Processing Vice President Lita Jimenez said she didn’t anticipate any citations in March in a PNT article and she had said it was the first time a worker had been seriously injured on the job. Jackson fell 47 feet from a grain elevator ladder on M...
