USAF photo As Cannon’s new school liaison officer, Laura Serrano will work to facilitate the educational needs of children and provide information to their parents. For information or assistance call her at 784-1528. By Greg Allen: 27th SOW Public Affairs 784-1528: If you are new here, been here or planning to leave here soon, that’s […]
Bridges, buildings focus of city’s year
December 29, 2009
By Kevin Wilson: CNJ staff writer For Clovis, it was a year of bridges and buildings, and how to restore them. At other times, there were questions of responsibility, animal cruelty, patriotism, partisan politics and religion — along with many issues that spilled over from 2008.
Local firefighters battle blaze
November 4, 2008
PNT photo: Argen Duncan Crews work to build a firebreak to stop a grassfire northeast of Portales Tuesday afternoon. Freedom New Mexico Firefighters from around the area had a Roosevelt County grassfire 90 percent contained as of 4 p.m. Tuesday, according to Portales Fire Chief John Bridges. The fire started earlier Tuesday afternoon. Bridges said […]
Udall hears Hull overpass concerns
August 19, 2008
CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks U.S. Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., speaks to the audience Tuesday, at Clovis Community College Town Hall. Udall, a Senate candidate, stopped in Clovis as part of his, “Do Right by New Mexico” tour. By Gabriel Monte: CNJ staff writer U.S. Rep Tom Udall, D-N.M. said Tuesday it was ironic the […]
Handiwork goes into creation of rock ‘n’ roll museum
July 21, 2008
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Clovis Sign Service employees Trace Shealy, front, and Jeremiah Mascarenas work together to glue the bridge to the body of a 9-foot guitar that will be part of the entrance to the Norman and Vi Petty Rock ‘n’ Roll Museum. By Liliana Castillo: CNJ staff writer The smell of glue […]
Commemoration of a tragedy
September 14, 2007
Photo by Tony Bullocks: Cannon Connections The Cannon Air Force Base Honor Guard presented the colors at Patriot Outdoors during a Sept. 11 ceremony. By Gabriel Monte and Casey Peacock: Cannon Connections Penny Bailey remembers watching in amazement as firefighters rushed into the Pentagon trying to find survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, despite […]
N.M. to look at bridges after collapse
August 2, 2007
Freedom Newspapers: Thomas Garcia A bridge on U.S. 54 near Logan is one of four steel-truss bridges in the state that is tabbed to undergo a comprehensive inspection. Freedom Newspapers LOGAN — A bridge on U.S. 54 near Logan is one of four steel-truss bridges in New Mexico that will undergo a comprehensive inspection, Gov. […]
Chapel, Clovis community make holidays brighter for single Airmen
December 23, 2005
Airman 1st Class Jessica Martinez, 524th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, walks off with one of the more than two dozen prizes awarded at the Single Airmen’s Holiday Dinner Dec. 15. Janet Taylor-Birkey “It was pretty bad,” said Mr. Al Jolly to a roomful of Airmen at the chapel Dec. 15, recalling his first Christmas in the […]
Support group offers aid to parents who have lost children
October 15, 2005
Gina Gutierrez sorts through items that belonged to her firstborn son Jake, who died 13 years ago from a staph infection. Gutierrez and three others are forming an Eastern Plains chapter of The Compassionate Friends. (Staff photo: Eric Kluth) By Marlena Hartz: CNJ staff writer She keeps his tiny, blue socks in a plastic container […]
Country life marred by bad roads
July 14, 2005
By Marlena Hartz: CNJ staff writer The charms of country life are instantly evident. The German Shepard pads around the yard regally. There is no leash to restrict his movements, so he follows closely behind three tow-headed children. A little girl sits on the cement steps, under a big, blue sky, and her brothers run […]
Ruby Bridges was ‘Triumphant in Trouble’
January 3, 2005
By Curtis K. Shelburne: Local Columnist Years ago now, I wrote a series of short essays entitled “Triumphant in Trouble.” How good it was, I don’t know, but I do know one truth came through at least to me, if to no one else. To be “triumphant in trouble” requires far more than that we […]
Bridges, Cleta F.
December 10, 2003
CLETA BRIDGES Services: Have been held. Cleta Fay Bridges, 64, of Clovis, died Friday, Nov. 21, 2003, at Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock. She was born on Jan. 20, 1939, in Bochita, Okla., to Elmer and Evelyn Flippo Hathcoat. She went to school in Sand Springs, Okla., as a child and moved to Bonham, Texas, […]
Adams, Dorothy
November 6, 2003
Dorothy Mabrel Adams, 82, of Clovis, died Sunday, Nov. 2, 2003, at Bridges Retirement Manor in Clovis. She was born Sept. 2, 1921, in Joplin, Mo., to Earl and Mabel Fitz Jerrell Williams. She married William “Bill” Adams on Feb. 15, 1941, in Chickasha, Okla. They came to Clovis in November of 1986. She was […]
Bridges, Milton
September 6, 2003
Milton Bridges Services: Have been held. Milton Doane Bridges, 73, of Georgetown, Texas, died Sunday, Aug. 24, 2003. He was born on June 24, 1930, in Belgrade Lakes, Maine, to Dr. Milton Arlanden and Marie Troutwine Bridges. He lived in New York City until 1939 when he moved to Houston after his father died. He […]
