Can’t resist homestyle cooking
I arrived home the other night to my wife toiling intently over a hot stove. “What ya got cookin’ there?” I asked. “Real chocolate pudding,” she answered. I inspected her work and asked why she didn’t...
View ArticleWith daring raid, U.S., Danish hostages on way home
The Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia — Held captive since last fall, an ailing American woman and a Danish man will soon be safely on their way home after a bold, dark-of-night rescue by U.S. Navy...
View ArticleSweet Home New Mexico: Remembering fallen hero
Courtesy photo Senior Airman Mark Forester A few columns back, I mentioned a family friend of ours that was an Air Force combat controller who was killed in Afghanistan while conducting combat...
View ArticleSweet Home New Mexico: Pet considered part of our family
My column this week is written with a heavy heart. Our family dog, a medium-sized black-lab mutt named Pepper, who wore a blue collar, escaped from our home last week and has yet to turn up. I have...
View ArticleAssisting children starts close to home
In a commentary by Bill Glass, founder of Bill Glass Ministries, he told of an incident at a Seattle Special Olympics event some years ago. Bill Glass has a grandson with Down’s Syndrome. The games...
View ArticlePolice investigating possible drive-by shooting
CMI staff At least seven shots were apparently fired at a house in the 1100 block of West 12th Street about 8:30 p.m. Thursday in what police are calling a drive-by shooting. No one was injured in the...
View ArticleSweet Home New Mexico: Your duty station is what you make of it
I grew up in what was once a small town just outside of Montgomery, Ala. It has grown through the years, but was once a town about the size of Clovis. Montgomery is home to Maxwell Air Force Base, so...
View ArticleSweet Home New Mexico: Alone time important
Something happened last week that hasn’t happened to me in over six years since I had my first child; I spent three days entirely alone. There was a conference in Albuquerque I attended, so my mom...
View ArticleFirst person: Model student
CNJ staff photo: Kevin Wilson Clovis High senior Kayleigh Mitchell claimed a regional competition in Lubbock for “America’s Next Top Model, the College Edition.” She is one of 40 regional winners, 16...
View ArticleClovis home sales down from year ago
CNJ staff photo: Kevin Wilson There have been 82 single-family homes sold in Clovis over the last three months, according to Multiple Listing Services data. Gabriel Monte Single-family Clovis home...
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