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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1988: Members of the New Mexico Highway Commission and local officials gathered for a ground-breaking to mark the start of construction on the Prince Street overpass in south Clovis.
Highway Commission Chairman Dewey Lonsberry and Clovis Mayor James Moss had the honor of tossing the first two shovels of dirt for the project that converted the area where Prince Street crossed the railroads from an underpass to an overpass.
The $1.5 million project by the State Highway Department was given an 18-month to two-year projected completion time.
1978: Valedictorians from classes 52 years apart posed for a photo in the Clovis News-Journal following Texico High School graduation ceremonies the evening before.
Herman Moore, who had graduated at the top of his class in 1926 from THS, was in town visiting his mother at a Farwell rest home.
The Medford, Oregon, resident attended graduation at his alma mater, taking time to offer congratulations to the 1978 class valedictorian, Christi Harrington, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Harrington.
Moore had moved away from eastern New Mexico in 1939.
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