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Claire Burroughes, left, ties a velvet cape around Nina Luckett as she is crowned queen at a nonagenarian tea for seniors over 90 at the Baxter-Curren Senior Center Tuesday afternoon. (Staff photo: Sharna Johnson) With some confined to wheelchairs and most dressed to impress, Curry County nonagenarians arrived at the Baxter-Curren Senior Center to attend High Tea. The 39th annual event was held to honor residents age 90 older, according to coordinator Brenda Hankins. As the...
The Clovis City Commission approved a stormsewer project Tuesday designed to keep a busy section of Prince Street from resembling a lake when it rains. The estimated cost of the project that would pipe the rain runoff underground along Prince north of 21st Street in the area of Triangle Ace Hardware is $410,000. The project is being scheduled to be completed before New Mexico Department of Transportation resurfaces Prince between Llano Estacado Boulevard and 21st in late June or early July. Clovis Public Works Director Harry...
The Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education met Tuesday evening at 1009 Main Street. The following is a summary of the meeting: • Clovis High School seniors Amanda Flanagan and Matthew Sena were recognized as Board of Education Scholarship Recipients. • Yucca Junior High School Family Consumer Community Leaders of America students, and their advisor, Amy Garcia, were recognized for their performance in a state FCCLA competition held in Albuquerque last month. The Yucca FCCLA won the following awards: • Jessica Farka... Full story
Kevin Duncan Republican candidate for probate judge What’s your background? I am 32 years old. My wife is Jodi Duncan. I am the proud parent of two boys, Jared and Tanner. I have been employed with Muffley Funeral Home for 14 years. I am a former city commissioner, serving for 8 1/2 years. Two of those years I served as mayor pro-tem. I am a 1992 graduate of the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science. I am a licensed funeral director and have been since 1994. Why are you running for probate judge? I wanted to stay active in t... Full story
Portales Municipal school administrators were able to recoup a projected $400,000 budget deficit in the 2006-07 school year through staff reductions by closing Broad Horizons Alternative School and transferring surplus funds. Portales School Board members approved the more than $18 million 2006-07 budget during the school board meeting Monday evening. The deficit was caused in part by increased insurance, gasoline costs and utility costs. Portales Municipal Schools Superintendent Randy Fowler said Gov. Bill Richardson’s v...
Federal health care regulatory agency officials began an inspection Monday of Plains Regional Medical Center, according to PRMC spokesperson Tayloria Grant. Nine officials from Centers for Medicaid and Medicare will take part in the inspection, which was spurred by a complaint substantiated earlier this year by the New Mexico Department of Health. “We have opened up our entire hospital (to CMS),” Grant said on Tuesday afternoon. The areas and methods of inspection are determined by CMS, Grant said. “We are just looking forwa... Full story
PORTALES — With her husband stationed at Cannon Air Force Base, Heather Alvarez attended a teacher fair Tuesday at Eastern New Mexico University hoping to find a job in the Portales-Clovis area. The good news is the Clovis and Portales school districts are looking for teachers. “I want to stay in the general area, because I have a young child and with daycare early in the morning, I don’t want to have to travel far,” said Alvarez, who completed the spring semester and is receiving her teacher certification. She would like to... Full story
Whether Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden can bring the Central Intelligence Agency out of its doldrums is a question whose answer we may not have until long after he has left his post as CIA director — assuming he is confirmed. His appointment has raised questions that are worth discussion as the United States struggles to cope with the dangers posed by stateless terrorists motivated more by religious and ideological convictions than nationalist loyalties and concerns. Gen. Hayden has relevant experience, given he is former d...
Sheriff should be willing to risk life Do you want Matt Murray as Curry County sheriff? I don’t. Murray was a Curry County deputy sheriff on July 13, 1992, when Charles Landgraf killed three people while trying to flee police in a sports car. According to a Nov. 19, 1993, report in the Clovis News Journal, Murray told a jury he drove down Prince Street and saw wreckage and bodies strewn over the highway. Murray said he resigned from the sheriff’s office several weeks later. Asked why he had decided to leave law enf...
“The Covenant With Black America” is not a fun read. Not unless you’re the wonky type who likes to snuggle up with a good policy proposal. One would assume there aren’t nearly enough wonks in the world to put a book like that within shouting distance of the New York Times best-seller list, much less at the top of it. Yet, “The Covenant” went to No. 1 on the paper’s nonfiction paperback list on April 23. It is, according to its editor, Tavis Smiley, the first black book to...
Former Portales High offensive coordinator Andy Correll has been hired to be the Rams’ new head football coach. A native of Knox City, Texas, Correll was chosen from seven candidates interviewed by the school. He was the offensive coordinator at PHS from 1999-2001, under outgoing head coach Glenn Johnson. Correll, 38, has spent the past three years an an assistant principal in Texas, the first year at Iowa Park and the last two at Abilene Wylie, but said he was ready to get back into coaching. His mother-in-law is a former j... Full story
Date of birth: April 20, 1919 War or conflict: World War II Dates of service: 1942 to 1946 Hometown: Coleman, Texas Theater and location of service: Stateside Branch: Army Air Corps Rank: Sergeant Specialty: Link trainer instructor Lives in: Clovis In his words: After attending Randolf Army Air Base for training, Claiborne began working as an instructor. He was responsible for training pilot cadets on instrument flying for BT-13 airplanes. One of 50 instructors, they worked...
ALBUQUERQUE — The Portales High boys golf team played Tuesday the way it had hoped to play Monday in the state Class 1-3A tournament at UNM South. The Rams simply had too much ground to make up. Portales’ five players cut a total of 17 strokes from their first-day output, shooting Tuesday’s best four-man score of 320. But the Rams were only able to make up one stroke on Socorro and finished second to the Warriors, who shot a two-day total of 634 to Portales’ 653. Grants, one of two teams tied with the Rams for second place a...
When Portales High’s Ella Erf and Bethany Self take the No. 1 seed into doubles competition in this weekend’s Class 1A-3A state individual tennis tournament in Albuquerque, they’ll be shooting for perfection. Neither has lost a match all season in singles, and they’ve compiled a 14-0 record in doubles competition. PHS girls coach Michelle Wallis is confident the tandem can finish it off. “I haven’t seen them struggle all year, even though we haven’t played schools like Bosque and Sandia Prep,” Wallis said. “These girls are me...
The possibility of no fireworks this year saddened some of the Portales High School and junior high students, but they were able to pass a recommendation during a mock city meeting to allow for a city fireworks display show. The Portales students held a mock city meeting Tuesday afternoon as part of student government day. The students, mostly student council representatives, approved mock recommendations and resolutions affecting the high school, junior high and city residents. “I was really nervous,” Rosa Helena Gar...
Those searching for a career in teaching and those looking for teachers said they benefited from attending the teacher fair at Eastern New Mexico University Tuesday. Students said the ENMU teacher fair helped future teachers get an idea of what’s available for new teachers in New Mexico and Texas. Even though some didn’t find openings they remained optimistic. Portales and Clovis School District officials were in search of teachers to fill their vacancies. It’s school districts like Portales and Clovis where Heather Alvar...
Editorial Whether Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden can bring the Central Intelligence Agency out of its doldrums is a question whose answer we may not have until long after he has left his post as CIA director — assuming he is confirmed. His appointment has raised questions that are worth discussion as the United States struggles to cope with the dangers posed by stateless terrorists motivated more by religious and ideological convictions than nationalist loyalties and concerns. Gen. Hayden has relevant experience, given he i... Full story
In the last few days, I’ve thought a lot about dishonesty. I’ve thought about unrealistic expectations. I’ve thought about having the wrong priorities. Elected officials, you can relax. I’m talking about my high school yearbook. I was a recent visitor to a high school that had scheduled an afternoon for its yearbook signing party. Since we always got our yearbooks at the beginning of the following school year, it was a new experience for me to watch the seniors of 2006 signing books before their year was complete. My senior...
An in-depth report examining Cannon Air Force Base as a potential site for Air Force special forces has been submitted to the Pentagon, a spokesman for Air Force Special Operations Command told the Clovis News Journal on Monday. Cannon and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz., are two bases being considered for special forces expansion, AFSOC spokesperson Matt Durham said. The reports were submitted earlier this spring, he said. Headquartered at Hurlburt Field in western Florida, AFSOC prepared the reports “on how w...
Mark Gallegos strives to get students to learn using all modalities, which helped earned the Portales High government and economics teacher the Portales News-Tribune’s Newspapers in Education Teacher of the Year Award. A Freedom Newspapers of New Mexico committee determined Gallegos best utilizes newspapers in his classrooms to help keep his students up-to-date on current events. “Coach Gallegos is a very dedicated teacher who works extremely hard in his classroom,” said Portales High School Principal Melvin Nusser, who n...
