Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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In a 6-1 vote, Clovis Commissioners rezoned the Colonial Park Golf Course during a meeting Thursday night. The ordinance to rezone the area from a single family district zone to a mixed development zone came recommended by the city’s planning and zoning committee, which held a public hearing July 13. Planning and Zoning Director Luis Gordon told commissioners almost 400 notices were sent to residents in the area surrounding the golf course, and the proposal met with a l...
The Portales and Clovis area is part of a nationwide research effort to address a bovine disease that can have significant impact on dairy and beef operations. New Mexico State University and its Clovis-based Southern Great Plains Dairy Consortium are involved in a $9.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to research bovine respiratory disease and determine how to reduce its prevalence. “The issue is really to understand it,” said NMSU Professor of Beef Cattle Physiology and Genetics Milt Thomas, co-... Full story
Just over 89,000 Tricare beneficiaries in New Mexico will be affected by Walgreens leaving the Tricare’s drug network. Walgreens says it will split with Express Scripts, the company that manages Tricare’s pharmacy program by the end of the year. Express Scripts is Tricare’s pharmacy contractor responsible for the Tricare retail pharmacy and pharmacy home delivery programs that provide the best value for the government, according to Tricare Management Activity Public Affairs Chief Austin Camacho. Camacho said that as a resul...
The United States Team Roping Championships will host the Regional Finals in Clovis August 4-7 at the Curry County Events Center. Touted as the richest team roping series, the event will offer $340,000 in cash and prizes with an estimated economic impact of $1.2 million to the Clovis area, according to a press release. Last year the event hosted more than 1,600 teams from 12 states, the release said. “The Southwest Regional Finals attracts ropers from across the Southwest to the West Coast,” said USTRC President Kirk Bra...
The girl (me), who has not a single ounce of the proper grace and femininity required for wearing heels, is attending a formal banquet this weekend. The amusing part of this is no matter how non-frilly a girl I am or how ungraceful I feel, I own a formal dress, which I love having excuses to wear simply because it makes me feel pretty. Every once in awhile, ladies need to feel like Cinderella, no matter how clich...
Have you ever taken some common event in your life for granted? I have, and a particular road trip showed me that sometimes we do not reach our destination, and life changes drastically in the process. This eye-opening experience came for me when some years ago Annie, Buffy, Mother and I were driving at dusk though the Salt River Canyon in Arizona. This is a winding road that meanders between steep mountains on one side and deep rugged canyons on the other. The highway is... Full story
amos the churchmouse: a view from under the pew Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard keys, but he can’t operate the capital shift, and he shuns punctuation marks – except dashes and hyphens. the valley of dry bones with all this dry hot weather i let willifred the white rat talk me into taking another trip in his tiny time traveler the other day boss let s go visit ezekiel in the valley of the dry bones says willifred and he set the time traveler to about 580 b c after a f...
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Kwame Griffith, a graduate pharmacy intern at Walgreens in Clovis, enters orders into the Walgreens system Thursday. Just over 89,000 Tricare beneficiaries in New Mexico will be affected by Walgreens leaving the Tricare’s drug network. Walgreens says it will split with Express Scripts, the company that manages Tricare’s pharmacy program by the end of the year. Express Scripts is Tricare’s pharmacy contractor responsible for the Tricare retail pharmacy and pharmacy home delivery progr... Full story
Saturday Contemporary Worship Service — 5 p.m., First Presbyterian Church. Information: 763-6821. Matt's Coffee House Interdenominational Jam Session Concert — 7 p.m., second Saturday of the month, First United Methodist Church, open to the public to perform and watch, free refreshments provided. To perform, contact Vyanne Bradley at 760-4071 or 742-3389 or Matt Carter at 799-2696. Sunday Worship service and Sunday school — 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Sunday worship with communion Trinity Lutheran Church, ELCA,...
Freedom New Mexico: Argen Duncan Dairy cows eat at Alva Carter Jr.'s dairy near Muleshoe, Texas. Researchers around the country are working to find a way to lessen the impact of bovine respiratory disease, which affects dairy and beef operations. The Portales and Clovis area is part of a nationwide research effort to address a bovine disease that can have significant impact on dairy and beef operations. New Mexico State University and its Clovis-based Southern Great Plains Dairy Consortium are involved in a $9.75 million... Full story
A 20-year-old Dallas man is being held at the Curry County jail on drug charges after local drug agents say they saw him throw a bag of methamphetamines into a Clovis street near a yard where children were playing. Angel Lechuga is being held on a more than $63,000 bond on charges of trafficking methamphetamines, child abuse and tampering with evidence. Agents with the Region V Drug Task Force were following Lechuga’s vehicle on west Ninth Street Monday after he drove up to, then left a residence where a narcotics i... Full story
The United States Team Roping Championships will host the Regional Finals in Clovis August 4-7 at the Curry County Events Center. Touted as the richest team roping series, the event will offer $340,000 in cash and prizes with an estimated economic impact of $1.2 million to the Clovis area, according to a press release. Last year the event hosted more than 1,600 teams from 12 states, the release said. “The Southwest Regional Finals attracts ropers from across the Southwest to the West Coast,” said USTRC President Kirk Bra...
City of Clovis and Curry County Commissioner Dan Stoddard has been selected to serve as chairman of Leadership New Mexico’s Local Government Leadership Program Committee. Founded in 1995, Leadership New Mexico is a nonprofit that has provided a nonpartisan perspective on statewide topics of concern and opportunities for improvement, according to a press release. The group boasts 900 participants from 70 communities throughout the state since the program’s inception. Stoddard graduated from the organization’s leadership progra...
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Friday briefing. Food drive Clovis’ VistaCare Hospice is sponsoring its seventh annual food drive in August. Food collection bags will be distributed through the community with drop-off points at several locations, including Albertsons, S&S Grocery, The Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce, the VistaCare office and other participating businesses. Donations of food and money will benefit the Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico. Boy Scout benefit The Eastern New Mexico Park t...
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Friday briefing. Food drive Clovis’ VistaCare Hospice is sponsoring its seventh annual food drive in August. Food collection bags will be distributed through the community with drop-off points at several locations, including Albertsons, S&S Grocery, The Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce, the VistaCare office and other participating businesses. Donations of food and money will benefit the Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico. Boy Scout benefit The Eastern New Mexico Park t...
