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  • Police looking for driver in crash

    Updated Sep 6, 2024

    Clovis police are asking the public's help in locating a driver whose cream-colored Ford Explorer crashed into a home in the 900 block of Comer Drive early Thursday morning. Two people were in the home, but no injuries were reported, police said in a news release. The driver of the vehicle fled the scene prior to police arrival. "During the crash investigation, Officers discovered the vehicle was reported stolen to the Portales Police Department," the news release stated....

  • Georgia community unites after school shooting

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Syndicated content|Updated Sep 5, 2024

    It didn’t matter that Paige Stinchcomb didn’t know any of the victims of the Apalachee High School shooting. She knew she had to do something. “Even if I didn’t know any people that were affected, it has affected the whole community,” Stinchcomb, who runs a local flower shop, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday through tears. Growing up in Winder, Stinchcomb said the best she can do to support her town is to utilize her business. The sign outside of Ann’s Flo...

  • Editor's Journal: Wednesday's paper has Pigskin Pick 'Em

    Updated Sep 5, 2024

    Are you ready for some football loot? The Pigskin Pick 'Em contest, hosted by The Eastern New Mexico News and radio stations KCLV and KTQM, is under way. Each week, you can win a $50 gift card from Juanito's Mexican Restaurant. You'll also have a chance to win $500 in cash at the end of the 12-week season. All you need is an entry form -- in each Wednesday edition of the newspaper -- and knowledge of pro and major college football. Pick the teams you think will win, bring the... Full story

  • Editor's Journal: Triple-digit month

    David Stevens|Updated Sep 4, 2024

    The Agricultural Science Centers at Clovis and Tucumcari have released their weather statistics for August. The numbers show it was hot, hot, hot. In Clovis, the average high was 95 degrees with four days topping out at 100 or more. The hottest day was 103 on Aug. 23. Twenty days in August hit 95 or more. Think that's warm? Tucumcari says, "Hold my iced lemonade." The ag center in Tucumcari reported an average high of 100 degrees for August. It recorded 16 days of temperatures hitting 100 degrees or more. The high for the...

  • Faith: What comes from our hearts more important than what's on our chins

    Curtis Shelburne, Religion columnist|Updated Sep 3, 2024

    A gentleman by the name of Maynard Good Stoddard wrote an article for The Saturday Evening Post many moons ago that my brother, for some reason, sent my way. It is entitled “To Beard or Not to Beard.” Stoddard said one day he finally figured out why he had been pushed around at home for so many years. It was, he had discovered, because his chin lacked authority. He mentioned that he felt no need for one of those “Jay Leno jobs.” But he felt a definite need for somethi...

  • Meetings calendar - Sept. 4

    Updated Sep 3, 2024

    Today *Clovis Community College Board of Trustees – 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: http://www.clovis.edu/about/administration.aspx or 575-769-4003 *El Llano Estacado Resource Conservation and Development Council – 10 a.m., Roosevelt County Soil and Water Conservation Office, 050 NM 467, Portales. Meeting will be followed by a tour of Enchantment Vineyards. Information: email to [email protected] Thursday *Friends of the Portales Public Library – noon, meeting room, Portales Publi...

  • Pages past, Sept. 4: Movie options: 'Jaws,' John Wayne and Elvis

    David Stevens and Betty Williamson, The Staff of The News|Updated Sep 3, 2024

    On this date ... 1914: The Barbara Worth Hotel in San Diego advertised “A room with a bath for a dollar” in The Clovis Journal. 1941: Portales city officials were making plans for a Sept. 12 statewide blackout. About 80 “special police” were appointed to help organize the civilian defense drill in which all lights were to be shut off and windows covered. The drill was mandatory across New Mexico because military leaders considered border states “of strategic importance from the standpoint of an invasion possibili...