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Clovis Community College’s Theater department will be performing the Tony Award and Pulitzer prize-winning musical RENT, by Jonathan Larson, on July 21-25, 2010, with curtain times of 7:00 p.m. nightly, and a Sunday matinee performance beginning at 2:00 p.m. All performances will be held in Town Hall on the CCC campus and tickets are $10. Based loosely on Puccini's opera La Boh...
Clovis Community College’s Theater department will be performing the Tony Award and Pulitzer prize-winning musical RENT, by Jonathan Larson, on July 21-25, 2010, with curtain times of 7:00 p.m. nightly, and a Sunday matinee performance beginning at 2:00 p.m. All performances will be held in Town Hall on the CCC campus and tickets are $10. Based loosely on Puccini's opera La Boh...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Abundant Energy Chief Executive Officer Kurt Knapton explains how wind turbines will be built on the company's six-acre piece of land south of Clovis after a ground breaking ceremony Wednesday. A wind turbine company broke ground for a five-megawatt wind farm and manufacturing plant south of Clovis on Wednesday. Vert-I-Go Wind L.L.C., a subsidiary of Plano, Texas-based Abundant Energy, purchased six acres of land from the city of Clovis just south of the city landfill in January and hopes to...
Due to recent hail storms a number of roofs were damaged and there are numerous contractors doing repairs....
Art display available until July 15 The Portales Artist-in-Residence work will be on display at the Runnel’s Gallery at Eastern New Mexico University until July 15. Ryder Richards and Sue Anne Rische of Dallas, Texas, created the art....
The Curry County jail is seeking volunteers to run programs and services for inmates. A training session will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday in the commission room at the courthouse. Administrator Keith Norwood said volunteer inmate programs are an integral part of working toward rehabilitation and reducing recidivism among inmates. “We need to offer these men (and women) much more than what we are giving them right now,” he said. “We need to make an effort to provide them with programs that can be utilized once they get out a...
Former Interim Deputy Administrator Kirk Roberts doesn’t believe he was “let go” for reasons being cited by the new administrator at Curry County jail. Roberts was dismissed Wednesday morning as part of what Administrator Keith Norwood classified as restructuring at the facility. “Dismissed is rather a strong term. He was let go,” Norwood said Wednesday afternoon. “As a temporary employee, he’s terminable at will. It wasn’t that he was fired or dismissed or anything like t...
Freedom New Mexico A Planned Grazing Workshop for ranchers and land owners is set for June 29-July 1 in Amarillo, Texas. Agricultural consultant Kirk Gadzia and Kelly Boney are expected to cover rangeland monitoring, financial planning, land planning and more, according to a press release from Holistic Management, the organization hosting the workshop. Planned grazing aims to have the right animals in the right place at the right time in order to improve land health, animal performance and financial success, according to the...
A 1910 Roosevelt County Herald mentions the Portales Woman’s Club eating “grape whip and cake.” Editor David Stevens found the article and suggested a column. I’d never heard of grape whip. I found two recipes online and chose one from a 1964 Ottawa Citizen newspaper. To start, I heated grape juice too much — due to multi-tasking — before adding other ingredients and substituting grape gelatin for unflavored gelatin I didn’t have. The mixture needed to “chill until beginning to set.” Short on time and unsure of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying his scathing published remarks about administration officials undermined civilian control of the military and eroded trust on the president’s war team. Obama chose McChrystal’s immediate superior — Gen. David Petraeus — to take over the troubled 9-year-old war in Afghanistan. The president said he did not make the decision to accept McChrystal’s resignation over any disag...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying his scathing published remarks about administration officials undermined civilian control of the military and eroded trust on the president’s war team. Obama chose McChrystal’s immediate superior — Gen. David Petraeus — to take over the troubled 9-year-old war in Afghanistan. The president said he did not make the decision to accept McChrystal’s resignation over any disag...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying his scathing published remarks about administration officials undermined civilian control of the military and eroded trust on the president’s war team. Obama chose McChrystal’s immediate superior — Gen. David Petraeus — to take over the troubled 9-year-old war in Afghanistan. The president said he did not make the decision to accept McChrystal’s resignation over any disag...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying his scathing published remarks about administration officials undermined civilian control of the military and eroded trust on the president’s war team. Obama chose McChrystal’s immediate superior — Gen. David Petraeus — to take over the troubled 9-year-old war in Afghanistan. The president said he did not make the decision to accept McChrystal’s resignation over any disag...
