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As I pulled out onto the highway from my little neighborhood at dawn I cussed the sun that was rising dead center of the road. It was so bright I feared I would miss an oncoming car. I thought about how bad that predicament becomes this time of year with the sun setting and rising on the east-west roads. I also thought about all the dirt in the air at this harvest time of year and the combination of the two circumstances. Then in the next minute I looked west down the street...
Information on aging gracefully, building bird houses, and cooking with wild-caught California king salmon will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and at noon on Thursday. Sarah Ryan, a registered dietitian nutritionist, has some useful tips and ideas for aging gracefully. She encourages that everyone remain physically active in order to maintain muscle as we age and says a healthy milk-rich diet can help. She lives in Conroe, Texas. Did you...
ROSWELL — I can’t count the number of times I have wished my mom could have been around long enough to see the many advances in science and technology since her death at age 55 in 1985. To experience e-mail or Facebook or talk to an invisible woman named “Alexa.” To shop online with items arriving overnight. Seeing breaking news from around the world as it is happening. She would be shocked to be able to chat with family across the country or marvel at movies or TV featuring long-dead actors, “talking” animals and cartoon...
I grew up with plenty of fables. Tortoise and the hare. Icarus and his wings of wax and feathers. Always double down on 11 ... oh wait, that’s from “Swingers.” But they’re not the only places where there’s a moral to the story. Everyday life gives them if you’re paying attention. • I was watching an NBA preseason game this week, and the broadcasters marveled at center Robin Lopez’ emergence as a 3-point shooter. In 2008, the 7-footer entered a entered a league where centers still played with their back to the basket and power...
If crowd size and enthusiasm were determining factors, the New Mexico Racing Commission could have rubber-stamped a horse-racing license to Tucumcari well before the end of the Oct. 4 hearing. It was hard for anyone to not be impressed by the more than 1,100 people who showed up at the Tucumcari Convention Center to express support for a proposed Coronado Park horse-racing track and casino on Tucumcari’s east side that would create 400 jobs. The presentation by Coronado Park’s principals often was greeted by spontaneous app...
Regarding last week’s racino editorials in The Eastern New Mexico News: Concerns about racino outweigh potential gains As I prepared for the coming of the New Mexico Racing Commission, I came across New Mexico Statute 9-7-11.4, which is a statute creating the Compulsive Gambling Council with duties and membership. Item E. (4) from this statute states: “The Council shall: ‘collaborate with the department (executive department) to improve data collection regarding gambling-related suicide, bankruptcies and domestic viole...
ESPANOLA — Finally: a win for the good guys, when it comes to keeping government processes open to the public. Justice Miles Hanisee wrote in a Sept. 24 Court of Appeals ruling that Marcy Britton had the right to attorney fees, costs and damages, contrary to the finding of District Court Judge Shannon Bacon of Bernalillo County. Bacon had found that Britton could not seek punitive damages and could only seek actual damages. Actual damages usually must be demonstrated in a way to show loss to convince a judge to award up to $...
I have leaned libertarian most of my life. I didn’t know what that word meant until I went to work for Freedom Communications in 2001 and they sent me to “freedom school.” That’s when I found out I was libertarian, soon after the classes began. Basically, I learned at freedom school that libertarians believe we’re all better off with less government and more individual responsibility. That’s me. My parents and grandparents taught me that from the day I was born: We have to be responsible for ourselves, and help our neighbo...
CLOVIS — Many knew her as the "donut lady." And if not by that appellation, many others knew her as the friendly, talkative lady at front in a perpetual, impeccable bee-hive hairdo at old Sutton's Bakery. For almost 35 years, she was a fixture at a fixture of Clovis' Main Street. She was Nell Turner, and she passed just last month at age 91. "Everybody in this town knew her," said her daughter, Kathy Turner. "She went to work when she was 50 and I was 16. She worked there f...
CLOVIS — Kellye Long has loved all things firefighting since she was 5 years old. On Wednesday, at 37, she was presented with a badge, custom helmet, a cake and a celebration at Clovis' "Station 1" as an honorary firefighter. "This is like a dream come true for her," said Ermy Beevers, Community Team Leader for ENMRSH (Eastern New Mexico Rehabilitation Services for the Handicapped), serving developmentally disabled adults and children in the region. At the swearing-in c...
A longtime local district judge and prosecutor died early this month in Austin. Fred Hensley, a Ninth Judicial District attorney for four years and a district judge from 1976 to 1996, was 81. “Fred was just a solid guy. He’d do anything for you,” said Clovis’ Richard Rowley, an attorney and lifelong friend. “He was pretty accommodating to the lawyers. He listened and I think he took everything seriously. “It always made me a little nervous when I’d have a hearing with him — he tried so hard to be fair, I was afraid he’d end...
On this date ... 1930: Fifteen months after it began, Clovis' pioneering role in coast-to-coast travel came to an end. Transcontinental Air Transport took flight on July 7, 1929, with Clovis among a dozen stops on its 48-hour plane-train trip from Los Angeles to New York. Incoming passengers from east and west flew into Clovis, while outgoing passengers took a train to their next stop. The airport site, selected by Charles Lindbergh, is today home to Cannon Air Force Base....
Voters in the Land of Enchantment will consider over $150 million in general obligation bonds and a pair of constitutional amendments when casting their ballots on Nov. 6. The vast majority of that sum comes from Bond D, which, if approved, would provide $128.4 million for higher education institutions statewide. Locally the largest allocation would go to Eastern New Mexico University, with $8 million going to the Portales campus to begin phase one of the renovation of the Roosevelt Science Center, which was built in 1953....
CLOVIS — While many of Clovis’ local elections were decided in the June primary, voters still have to determine next month which of two women will serve Division 1 the next four years as magistrate judge, a seat to be vacated by incumbent Duane Castleberry. It’s been the first political campaign for both Jane Marie Vander Dussen and Nicole Roybal, the respective Republican and Democrat candidates, and they told The News last week about their experiences so far on the trail. If phase one before the primary wasn’t challen...
CLOVIS — You wouldn’t know it from looking at the ballot, but Curry County voters will have two choices for county assessor when they head to the polls on Nov. 6. Candace Morrison is seeking election for a second-straight four-year term. Morrison also served as county assessor as an appointee for two years prior to her successful 2014 campaign. Lunden Hromas, a former appraiser with the county, is seeking the position as a write-in candidate. County Clerk Annie Hogland said Hromas’ name will not appear on the ballot and v...
Across four large and diverse districts serving eastern New Mexico in the state’s House of Representatives, two feature Republicans running unopposed and the other two present some interesting options for voters: In District 63, it’s a contest between a Democrat incumbent from Santa Rosa and a newcomer Republican from Clovis, and in District 67 a contest between two men each mounting their first political campaign. In District 64, Randy Crowder (R-Clovis) is running unopposed for his third term in the position. For Dis...
Ballots New Mexico U.S. Senator Martin T. Heinrich (D) Gary E. Johnson (L) Mick Rich (R) U.S. Representative District 2 Xochitl Torres Small (D) Yvette Herrell (R) District 3 Ben R. Lujan (D) Christopher Manning (L) Jerald Steve McFall (R) Governor/Lieutenant Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham/Howie C. Morales (D) Steve Pearce/Michelle Garcia Holmes (R) Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D) Ginger G. Grider (L) Gavin Clarkson (R) State Auditor Brian S. Colon (D) Wayne A. Johnson (R) State treasurer Tim Eichenberg (D) Art...
Monday • Portales school board — 6 p.m., Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., County Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 Wednesday • City of Clovis Finance Committee — 2 p.m., Small Conference Room, City Hall, 321 N. Connelly St., Clovis Information: 57...
Today • Lions Club Gun, Knife & Coin Show — 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Clovis Civic Center, 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Information: 575-935-5000 • Ruffles and Rust Expo — 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Boutique show, Curry County Events Center, 1900 E. Brady Ave., Clovis. Admission: $5. Information: 575-935-7000 Tuesday • New Mexico Department of Agriculture pesticide disposal day — 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Curry County Fairgrounds parking lot, Fairgrounds Road, Clovis. Free recycling from USAg Recycling for pesticides, treated seed, rinsates, plastic jug...
CLOVIS — Another detention officer with the Curry County jail has been arrested for conspiring with inmates, this time in connection with a drug trafficking investigation. Jesse Truong, 38, of Clovis was accused last week of coordinating with an inmate’s girlfriend to bring contraband into the Curry County Adult Detention Center. He was charged Tuesday with two fourth-degree felonies and arrested; officers also charged Cynthia Romero and inmate Aaron Clark with second-degree felony trafficking of a controlled substance, all...
The following are available for checkout at: Clovis-Carver Public Library “The Word is Murder” by Anthony Horowitz begins with one bright spring morning in London where Diana Cowper — the wealthy mother of a famous actor — enters a funeral parlor, there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled in her own home. Disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate the case whose many twists and turns prove irresistible. “Heart of Eden” by Caroline Fy...
CLOVIS — The city of Clovis has multiple committee vacancies, according to a city press release. The Senior Services Committee, which meets at least quarterly at City Hall, is seeking a representative from District 3. The Water Policy Advisory Committee, which meets at 8:30 a.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at City Hall, is seeking a representative from District 2. The Cultural & Ethnic Affairs Committee, which meets at the call of the chair, is seeking one representative from each commission district and two m...
Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. line dance Tuesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8 a.m. quilting, 9 a.m. pinochle class, 10 a.m. beginning line dance, 1 p.m. pinochle, 6 p.m. trivia mania Wednesday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment, 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. sew days, 1 p.m. needle gang Thursday: 8 a.m. eggs, gravy and biscuits $4, 8:45 a.m. pinochle 101, 1 p.m. bingo, 6 p.m. line dance Friday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. exercise equipment,...
Clovis Elementary Monday: Breakfast — Breakfast pizza. Lunch — Sweet and sour chicken, steamed rice, garden salad, mini carrots w/ranch, fresh fruit. Tuesday: Breakfast — Cinnamon roll. Lunch — Hamburger on a bun, baked fries, veggie cup w/ranch, sidekicks. Wednesday: Breakfast — French toast. Lunch — Soft taco w/salsa, seasoned pinto beans, seasoned corn, orange smiles. Thursday: Breakfast — Sausage croissant. Lunch — Pig in a blanket, garden salad w/ranch, seasoned green beans, fresh fruit, cookie. Friday: Breakfast — Bre...
My legal name is Alexandra Floyd but people may know me by my nickname Sandy. I was named after my mother’s best friend from high school. I have two brothers, one older and one younger. My father died when I was nine in a work related accident. He was the first person I knew who passed away. Every year after that, except for one year in high school, someone I knew passed! My mother thought I'd be a morbid child going to so many funerals and memorials. Despite the sorrow, I h...
