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Courtesy photo Grace Helen Bowen at age 18. Benna Sayyed Grace Helen Bowen is nonchalant about turning 100 years old today. “Turning 100? I don’t feel anything one way or another. It’s just another birthday, just another day on the calendar. How do you feel about yours?” said Bowen with a sweet smile. Bowen’s health […]
It was a Sunday morning and I was thumbing through the newspaper, pondering picking up a little more cash to pay some bills faster. Looking over the newspaper’s classifieds I stumbled upon what I thought was the perfect job for someone who works mornings at a radio station, afternoons at a bicycle shop, then writes […]
Good morning and welcome to Freedom New Mexico’s Monday briefing. School’s out…for Clovis Freeeeedom! No school today in Clovis in honor of Presidents Day. Side note: Did you know that the name Presidents Day is not adopted by the federal government as the official name of the Washington’s Birthday holiday? Sports on TV ESPN college […]
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Amanda Herrera totals up the Salinas family’s purchase of fireworks at a fireworks stand north of Clovis. By Thomas Garcia: Freedom New Mexico Fireworks vendors in Curry and Roosevelt counties said sales are picking up as July 4 nears. “We have been open since June 20 and have already had […]
By Grant McGee: CNJ Columnist The Lady of the House and I were in the feed store picking up some wheat straw for this year’s garden. We couldn’t miss the lively, energetic conversation between a customer and one of the feed store dudes about the recent college basketball playoffs.
CNJ Editorial Perhaps the job itself is not worth a bucket of warm spit, as one of FDR’s vice presidents, John Nance Garner, so famously said. But consider the vice presidents in the last half of the 20th century who went on to become president: Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush. In […]
