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The annual Floyd Lions Country Jamboree is still going strong, and organizers say this year’s four-day event will be one of the best in its 61-year history. The show runs Thursday through Sunday with country and gospel music, cowboy poetry and comedic skits. The Citizen of the Year award for community service is presented Saturday night. “The quality of the performers is excellent, the band is made up of several veterans of the show that have played together for several years, and it will come together as an entertaining even... Full story
Courtesy photo: Sherry Fahrenkrug Local musician Will Banister performs during the Floyd Lions Club Country Jamboree dress rehearsal Sunday. The 61st annual music show is scheduled for this weekend. The annual Floyd Lions Country Jamboree is still going strong, and organizers say this year’s four-day event will be one of the best in its 61-year history. The show runs Thursday through Sunday with country and gospel music, cowboy poetry and comedic skits. The Citizen of the Year award for community service is presented S...
Like the rest of New Mexico, Roosevelt and Curry counties saw a leap in the Hispanic population in the last decade, according to the latest U.S. Census numbers. Roosevelt County’s Hispanic population age 18 and older grew 34.2 percent from 2000 to 2010, according to the census. The county’s adult Anglo population, on the other hand, decreased by 2.4 percent. In Curry County, the Hispanic population 18 years old and older increased 45.7 percent, while the adult non-Hispanic white population increased 9.6 percent, acc...
Local law enforcement officials say a proposed requirement to take DNA samples from people arrested for any felony would be a benefit, not a burden. Under existing state law, anyone 18 or older arrested for felonies involving death or bodily harm, sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary, larceny, robbery, aggravated stalking, use of a firearm or an explosive or violation of the Antiterrorism Act must provide jail personnel with a DNA sample during booking. Law enforcement officers can then use the DNA records to help in investig...
Do Drop In sandwich shop is reopening with a culinary school graduate and a military family at the helm. The restaurant on Avenue A closed Dec. 12. Previous owner Joann Rackler said she wanted more time, especially since her grandchildren are in Albuquerque. New owner Kamille Mountjoy said her family always wanted such a business. With her son, Ian, graduating from culinary school at the Art Institute of Atlanta, she could have the shop and keep her job as a customer service representative at Yucca Telecom. “I want to b...
Broadway is hitting Portales, and the ‘50s are back. Portales High School students are putting on the Broadway musical comedy “Guys and Dolls” this weekend. The story revolves around a craps game and two struggling couples in New York City in the 1950s. “After watching the musical, I liked the underlying theme of redemption — no matter where you come from, you can always change for the better,” said choir teacher Franklin Smith, who’s directing the musicians. Smith said such productions teach students a lot in a couple...
Dixey Evans has been without regular running water for seven-and-a-half weeks. Since the below-zero temperatures in February burst the first pipe, she’s had one leak or broken pipe after another at her Clovis home. Evans said she ran out of money to pay plumbers without getting everything fixed, and she doesn’t have homeowner’s insurance. “When you’re on Social Security, you can barely eat, much less afford insurance,” she said. Now, she’s hoping to receive a portion of the state money Gov. Susana Martinez allotted to h...
A group of Portales city councilors are pushing for a water conservation measure they say should have been enacted decades ago. Councilors Keith Thomas, Gary Watkins and Ron Jackson, with help from city Planning Director Sammy Standefer, are working to write an ordinance that would require new construction to have all private yards 50 percent xeriscaped. Watkins said the ordinance would go before the Planning and Zoning Commission and be subject to a public hearing before the council could vote on it. Thomas raised the issue...
The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office is hoping for a county ban on certain types of incense that are often used to produce a high similar to that of marijuana. Chief Deputy Malin Parker said he supplied the Roosevelt County Commission with a sample ordinance at their meeting Tuesday. The ordinance is being rewritten to be specific to the county, and Parker anticipates commissioners will adopt it at their next meeting. Under the ordinance, the use, possession and sale of synthetic cannabinoids and salvia divinorum would be fo... Full story
Plans for a proposed new wind farm in Roosevelt County are taking shape. Bill Castor, vice president of development in the Terra-Gen Power LLC office in Denver, said he couldn’t discuss specifics, but his company was contemplating a wind energy project of at least 150 megawatts in Roosevelt County. He would like to start commercial operations of the Roosevelt Wind Farm in January 2013. However, negotiations are still under way, so plans aren’t set. The renewable energy business is challenging and competitive, Castor sai...
I don’t have time to cook every day, and eating out is expensive and often less healthy. I cook once a week, put single servings of the food in leftover containers, stack the containers in the refrigerator and take one to work every day. If you don’t want to eat the same thing for a week, put the containers in the freezer. After a few weeks, you’ll have a bank of different homemade frozen dinners. Another idea: Keep pre-cooked meat and store-bought frozen vegetables in the freezer. Freeze meat in portions you’d eat in one mea...
The Joint Land Use Study committee stopped short when it came to tall buildings Wednesday, opting instead to ask local officials to consider implementing a series of policy recommendations. The committee’s decision sends recommendations to the Roosevelt and Curry County commissions. Commissioners can then implement those recommendations if and when they choose. On tall structures, the committee consensus was to recommend counties establish policy in which landowners wanting to build a structure taller than 200 feet, such a...
The Joint Land Use Study committee stopped short when it came to tall buildings Wednesday, opting instead to ask local officials to consider implementing a series of policy recommendations. The committee’s decision sends recommendations to the Roosevelt and Curry County commissions. Commissioners can then implement those recommendations if and when they choose. On tall structures, the committee consensus was to recommend counties establish policy in which landowners wanting to build a structure taller than 200 feet, such a...
Music tempo affecting heart rate ... algae biofuel ... robotic legs. Sixth- through 12th-graders exhibited projects featuring those topics and many more at the 53rd annual Southeastern New Mexico Regional Science Fair Saturday at Eastern New Mexico University. Fair Director Kenwyn Cradock, also an ENMU assistant professor of biology, said 129 students were participating, and the fair was going well this year. Two Portales home-school students, seventh-grader Nathaniel Baker and eighth-grader Joseph Chappel, and 40 Clovis...
Alisa Boswell: Portales News-Tribune A truck waits to be filled with grain Friday afternoon at the JD Heiskell Holdings LLC grain elevators in Portales. The market for agricultural commodities, including corn and wheat, has become volatile due to speculative trading, farmers and grain dealers said. Speculation in agricultural commodities markets is causing greater volatility in prices than in the past, affecting everyone from the farmer to the consumer, according to farmers and grain dealers in eastern New Mexico....
Speculation in agricultural commodities markets is causing greater volatility in prices than in the past, affecting everyone from the farmer to the consumer, according to farmers and grain dealers in eastern New Mexico. Agricultural commodities are certain farm products, including corn, wheat, milk, cheese and cotton, that are traded internationally, much like the stock market. Oil is also a commodity. Roosevelt County farmer Kevin Breshears said when the stock market crashed in 2008, traders switched from it to speculative... Full story
Freedom New Mexico: Argen Duncan John Baker of Friona carries his Australian kelpie puppy into the ring during the working dog clinic Wednesday at the New Mexico Ag Expo at the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds. Baker said he comes to the expo every year. The New Mexico Ag Expo ended Wednesday with an average attendance, good weather and organizers pleased with the outcome. The 19th annual expo brought 130 booths, indoors and out, from about 110 vendors to Roosevelt County Fairgrounds, Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce... Full story
With a large fuel load and little moisture, county fire officials are concerned about serious grass fires this spring. Floyd Fire Chief Allen Deen said he had read a story from KOB.com that indicated the National Weather Service predicted this year could have the worst fire season in 30 years as winds pick up due to La Nina. “We’re just a tinder box right now,” Deen said, also mentioning the abundant tall grass that could fuel fires. Portales Fire Chief Gary Nuckols said conditions are favorable for a bad fire season in Roose...
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority representatives hope to get federal money left over from other projects at the end of the year since the Ute pipeline project wasn’t included in the president’s proposed budget. The utility authority met Thursday morning at Clovis City Hall. Regarding federal money, pipeline project manager Scott Verhines said the Bureau of Reclamation had high monetary obligations to existing facilities and most of the little money left for rural water programs went to American Indian pro... Full story
The fate of new state dairy environmental regulations remains to be seen as involved parties wait for decisions from the Court of Appeals and the Water Quality Control Commission. At the end of December, the commission issued regulations, which contained points of contention over linings for dairy wastewater lagoons and the use of monitoring wells to see if the lagoons leaked. Soon after, the Dairy Industry Group for a Clean Environment filed an appeal of the rules with the Court of Appeals and a motion to stay the...
The fate of new state dairy environmental regulations remains to be seen as involved parties wait for decisions from the Court of Appeals and the Water Quality Control Commission. At the end of December, the commission issued regulations, which contained points of contention over linings for dairy wastewater lagoons and the use of monitoring wells to see if the lagoons leaked. Soon after, the Dairy Industry Group for a Clean Environment filed an appeal of the rules with the Court of Appeals and a motion to stay the...
File photo Herb Newberry of Portales rides his father's tractor fixed up for the antique tractor parade atlast year's New Mexico Ag Expo. Newberry said the tractor was used before his father bought it in the 50s. This year’s 19th annual New Mexico Ag Expo promises information ranging from the government perspective on dairy issues to the popular working dog clinic. The expo is set for Tuesday and Wednesday at the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds. Admission is free. “We’ve got a wide array of programs,” said Patrick Kircher, chair...
File photo Curry County administration submitted capital outlay requests for Curry County roads, the Curry County Adult Detention Center and the Curry County Courthouse. Kevin Wilson and Argen Duncan Eastern New Mexico entities sent capital outlay priorities Monday at the request of local legislators. But there’s no indication there will be capital outlay available, or that every entity received that information. “We got word from Santa Fe that if we had any projects, we needed to submit them before 5 p.m. yesterday,” Curry...
Freedom New Mexico: Argen Duncan Eastern New Mexico University student Rebeka Henson, who works at the Administration Building information office, said the Lottery Scholarship makes it affordable for her to attend college. Two bills in the state Senate are trying to keep the scholarship program solvent for a longer period of time. State senators are considering ways to keep the Lottery Scholarship program solvent, and Eastern New Mexico University representatives agree it’s important. The program pays tuition at s...
State senators are considering ways to keep the Lottery Scholarship program solvent, and Eastern New Mexico University representatives agree it’s important. The program pays tuition at state-supported New Mexico universities. Sen. Stuart Ingle, R-Dist. 27, has introduced a bill that would freeze tuition for students on the scholarship throughout their time in college. “What I’m trying to do is get some stability in the spending of the Lottery Scholarship program,” he said. Ingle said he will probably amend the bill to spec... Full story
