Seven students win scholarships Seven local students have won scholarships to Texas Tech University. Clovis seniors Rustin Harris and Kelsey Young and Farwell seniors Clayton White and Landry Actkinson won the Presidents’ Gold Scholarship. Clovis senior Bryan Wygant won the Presidents’ Platinum Scholarship. Clovis senior Samantha Myers won the LP and L IMPACT Scholarship. Texico […]
Honors — Feb. 27
February 26, 2011
Submitted by Elks Pictured left to right: (front) Miss New Mexico Madison Tabet, (back) Jasmine Gannon, Rayelle Rivale and Haley Garcia. Lam New Mexico’s president Lee Ann Lam of Clovis, a member of Ledbetter-McReynolds Auxiliary No. 3015, was honored during the National Mid-Year Conference of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of […]
Education digest — Feb. 17
February 16, 2011
Schools closed for holiday The following area schools are closed Monday in observance of Presidents’ Day: • Clovis Municipal Schools • Eastern New Mexico University • Melrose Municipal Schools • Clovis Christian School • Portales Municipal Schools
Two schools holding make-up days on Presidents Day
February 13, 2010
CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Marshall Middle School English teacher Leslie Chavez works on a lesson with her seventh-grade students. By Thomas Garcia: Freedom New Mexico Two schools in eastern New Mexico will be holding classes on Presidents Day to make up for snow day closures. Logan and Portales’ schools will be in session Monday […]
Lincoln remains most influential of past presidents
February 11, 2009
Today we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. He is the most widely honored president, certainly by Americans, and probably throughout the world. Despite everything that has been written about him, Lincoln remains a mystery. He was a quintessential politician: He would keep his word until it was expedient not to. He would […]
Presidents Day Closings
February 16, 2008
In observance of Presidents Day, local banks and credit unions will be closed, with the exception of Wells Fargo Bank, which will remain open. City personnel offices, Clovis-Carver Library, Clovis Municipal Schools, Eastern New Mexico University campus and the United States Postal Service also will be closed. The Clovis News Journal will remain open.
Stamp trooper
May 26, 2007
Staff photo: Andy DeLisle Nick Csakan of Clovis was enlisted to help draw attention to Friday’s release of the new Star Wars stamps at the Clovis Post Office on Gidding Street. In the past, postal works have dressed as muppets and presidents for a stamp release, according to Postmaster John Yeast.
ENMU president: Schools’ missions different
December 5, 2005
Staff and wire reports ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico State President Michael Martin says if he’s going to be in the big leagues, he has to play like it. Eastern New Mexico University’s Steven Gamble insists his school is playing a different game. Martin and New Mexico Tech President Daniel Lopez were the two biggest spenders […]
Banquet to celebrate momentum
January 10, 2005
By David Irvin: CNJ staff writer Past presidents of the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce will be honored at this year’s annual banquet set for Friday night at the Landing on Cannon Air Force Base. The event will open at 6:30 p.m. with a past presidents’ reception to honor those who laid the foundation for […]
Lying a recreational sport for presidents
July 10, 2004
By Steve Chapman On his first day campaigning as John Kerry’s running mate, John Edwards put on his most sincere expression and informed a crowd in Cleveland, “I can tell you one thing you can take to the bank: He will always tell the truth to the American people.” I don’t greatly resent politicians who […]
Kerry blundered in choosing VP candidate
July 9, 2004
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 […]
Area citizens react to loss of Ronald Reagan
June 5, 2004
By Ryan Lengerich: CNJ staff writer Mary Lewis said she never missed a Ronald Reagan movie. The 77-year-old Texico resident praised the former president. “I just loved him, he was just so handsome and such a good actor,” she said. “He was a wonderful president and a loving husband.” Reagan, the nation’s 40th president, died […]
Public, press can keep our leaders accountable
February 16, 2004
Editorial The independent commission investigating intelligence shortcomings before the 9/11 terror attacks said Thursday it will seek public testimony from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and also from former President Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore. It’s most unlikely to happen, but it’s a delightful idea. As aficionados of C-SPAN know, the British […]
