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Roosevelt General Hospital will soon offer pediatric occupational therapy services as well as echocardiogram readings. At their regular meeting Tuesday, hospital CEO Kaye Green told the board that RGH signed the lease for the space where the pediatric occupational therapy services will be provided. “It’s across the parking lot from our existing physical therapy space and on the same side as our speech therapy leased space on South Avenue O,” Green told the News. The space is in need of minimal renovations, according to Green...
On this date ... 1950: A Seagraves, Texas, man was arrested by Texas Rangers on suspicion of stealing cattle near Texico. Investigators received a tip the Seagraves man may have been involved in multiple area cattle thefts and they soon learned he'd spent time in prison for similar cattle thefts. The suspect was identified as the man who sold a stolen cow and steer to a rancher near Hugoton, Kan. 1956: New Mexico Gov. John Simms was in Clovis to speak to Kiwanis Club members...
Turns out, Democrats have a mind of their own. You can see it in the fallout from Joe Biden’s weak debate performance, when the president showed his age. And you could see it in last week’s special session of the New Mexico Legislature, when Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham attempted to run roughshod over her party with poorly vetted legislation. It should have been a humbling experience from our second-term governor, who has been getting things done her way for nearly six years now. But instead of coming out, hat in hand, to apo...
The political world was shaken by the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Footage from the event showed Trump clutch his right ear and go down after gunshots rang out. Quickly rising to his feet amid a phalanx of U.S. Secret Service agents, Trump pumped a fist at the crowd as blood seeped from the side of his head. The agents responded swiftly to protect the former president and shot the apparent attacker, a registered Republican, to death. From the...
Over the five years I’ve been in journalism, I’ve conducted many interviews. Because I graduated from Eastern New Mexico University out of the communication department, you can imagine I spoke to Department Chair Patti Dobson often. And yes, interviewed her multiple times; whether it was for an assignment or even in my professional career if the news related back to ENMU. Learning of Dobson’s passing on Friday really was a heavy weight for me to carry. And undoubtedly so, for all of Dobson’s other students. In a voice m...
Curry County’s jail administrator, the executive director of Portales’ Chamber of Commerce and the deputy director of the Eastern Plains Council of Governments are among 37 applicants for Portales’ vacant city manager position. The city released the applicants’ names last week in response to an Inspection of Public Records Act request from The News. Interim City Manager T.J. Cathey said the position will remain open until “the right person” is found to fill it. The city began accepting applications soon after Sarah Austi...
Water conservation continues to be at the forefront of discussion for the Portales City Council. At their regular meeting Tuesday, councilors heard a presentation from Mike Davidson, a resident of the community and member of the public works and water advisory committees. Davidson said the current state of water usage in Portales shows the community uses around 900 million gallons of water each year. That number needs to go down to 700 million for sustainability. Davidson went on to say that while the Ute pipeline project...
Eastern New Mexico University is gearing up to start a big project in creating a new Student Academic Services Building on campus. The ENMU Board of Regents met via telephone Wednesday and approved the (up to) $35 million project on a unanimous vote. The current SAS is building on campus is across from the Administration Building at the edge of the campus along U.S. 70 and West Second Street. It used to serve as the campus union building. According to James Johnston, ENMU System Chancellor and President of the Portales...
The Clovis Community College Board of Trustees will be accepting proposals again to complete the expansion of the Allied Health Services building. In early April, trustees selected DAVTEK Corp. of Clovis as the contractor. However, in a letter of protest from EPX Construction Partners, CCC found some “irregularities” in the bid submitted by DAVTEK. “The primary area of concern with the DAVTEK proposal was subcontractor identification for some of the scopes of work,” Bob Dart, interim vice president of IT & Operations for CCC...
On this date ... 1946: Brothers Charles and Lee Tosh referred to themselves as mortal enemies of prairie dogs. But the owners of Empy’s Welding and Machine Shop also fancied themselves “humane” in the way they went about eradicating the little burrowers, the Clovis News-Journal reported. “Every opportunity that they get they will go out and try to help the farmer or rancher by ‘knocking off’ some of the animals with guns,” the newspaper reported. “All in all, the brothers have killed thousands of prairie dogs.” Their mo...
Harry Truman reportedly said that the Joe Rosenthal photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima guaranteed the existence of the U.S. Marine Corps for the next 100 years. Truman was right. The photo became an icon throughout the nation and a monument in Washington, D.C. The Trump political rally held in Pennsylvania a week ago has created another such moment in history. The heroic image of a bloodied Donald J. Trump, rising out of a crowd of secret service personnel, Old Glory...
The horrid attempted assassination against former President Donald Trump amidst a rancorous presidential campaign brings to mind the phrase, “let us have peace.” Those are the words chiseled high over Riverside Drive, right above the portico on Grant’s Tomb. It was the slogan used by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious Union Army commander in the Civil War, in his successful 1868 presidential campaign. Opened in 1897, the granite and marble mausoleum on 122nd St. was once the most visited tourist site in the country, outdr...
The climate at the Republican National Convention has changed from what was expected – “but not in that we’re fearful, just the opposite. We are more determined and united than ever,” said Tina Dziuk on Monday. Dziuk of Clovis is a member of the New Mexico delegation serving on the RNC Committee on Arrangements for the convention being held this week in Milwaukee. Following Saturday’s apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, Dziuk said “there is nowhere in the nation that is more secure than...
By now, most New Mexicans are aware of the case against the movie star Alec Baldwin. It was getting plenty of play both here at home and abroad until, poof, it went away. It shouldn’t disappear so easily. There are more than enough questions still left to answer. The case against Baldwin was dismissed Friday after it was discovered that ammunition from the set of “Rust” had been “misfiled” and was not disclosed to the defense. That was enough to compel Santa Fe’s First Judicial District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer to grant a mo...
Ruthann Kelly traveled to Lincoln County to help the emergency management teams any way she could during the South Fork and Salt wildfires in Ruidoso. She came home with ideas for better preparing our part of the state for potential disaster. "I've got so many notes on things that I want to change here on how we operate," said Kelly, the emergency management director for the city of Clovis and Curry County. Kelly was in the Ruidoso area June 18-21 after the fires – they ultima...
Federal authorities on Sunday identified a 20-year-old Allegheny County man as the gunman who shot at former president Donald Trump in what they described as an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Western Pennsylvania. The bureau said Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, was responsible for the attack that left Trump with minor injuries, one spectator dead, and two others critically injured. Speaking at a news conference earlier Sunday, Kevin Rojek, special agent in charge of the FBI field office in...
Editor’s note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials. Mark Gallegos is back in his position of jail administrator for the Curry County Detention Center after a recent military deployment. Q: You recently returned from military deployment. As much as you can, talk about your military commitment and what you were doing on this latest mission. A: I am in the Navy Reserves as a Naval officer. I was activated to active duty from Aug. 4, 2023, to June 21, 2024, under the Operation Spartan Shield O...
On this date ... 1881: Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett killed outlaw William “Billy the Kid” Bonney at Fort Sumner. Fort Sumner resident Jesus Silva was among those witnessing the Kid’s death. “There on the floor, we saw Billy stretched out, face down,” he said. “We turned him over, and when Deluvina (Maxwell, a friend) realized fully it was the Kid, she began to cry bitterly, interspersing with her tears the vilest curses she could bestow on the head of Pat Garrett.” 1910: William Hanna was born in Melrose. The son of a...
The Democrat Party leadership has painted itself into a corner. It did it knowingly and diligently. In February of this year, Special Counsel Robert K. Hur published his report on the possible misuse of classified information by President Joe Biden. After interviewing Biden for five hours over two days, Hur concluded that Biden was an “elderly man with a poor memory.” Hur further determined that even if the president were indicted for any offence, he would probably be found un...
This month, Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” commented that “one of the most alarming things” about “Project 2025” is the blatant admission that Donald Trump did not accomplish everything he intended to in his first administration. “They got a slow start […] so their codeword is ‘day one,’” Ben-Ghiat told MSNBC’s Katie Phang of the think-tank’s proposal document, which is assumed to represent a considerable percentage of Trump polic...
The Roosevelt County Commission on Tuesday passed a resolution that opposes a proposal from the Land Protection Plan that could ultimately impact many private landowners in the county. The proposal from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would acquire 7 million acres for the LPP, with the help of the Nature Conservancy. It would include the Muleshoe and Grulla National Wildlife Refuges in west Texas and eastern New Mexico called the “Conservation Partnership Area.” The mission would be to protect various wildlife hab...
ROSWELL - Officials have determined a lightning strike was the cause of the South Fork Fire that scorched areas in and around the village of Ruidoso and the Mescalero Apache Reservation. "The identification of the point of origin and all evidence and data support lightning as the cause of the fire. Human activity and factors did not contribute to the cause," said a press release issued last week from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Several fire and law enforcement...
RUIDOSO — An Eastern New Mexico University graduate is the new general manager of the Ruidoso News. Eugene Heathman of Ruidoso will be tasked with print and integrative digital platform production in addition to marketing and staff management to fortify the return of the Ruidoso News to its local roots. New Mexico-based El Rito Media, LLC, recently purchased the newspaper. “I am very pleased to be part of a New Mexico-owned publishing group committed to redevelop the Ruidoso News into the leading local resource for news, ent...
Editor's note: This is one in a continuing series of interviews with local officials. Dr. Carlton Lewis is the director of mental health for Clovis Municipal Schools. Q: You have recently accepted the position as director of mental health for Clovis schools. Tell us about this position. What does it involve? A: The role is multifaceted, encompassing a range of responsibilities. My team and I will plan, implement, and coordinate events and programs focused on mental health. I...
About 12 years ago, when I was at the Las Vegas Optic, we worked up a special section on the seven-county region of Northeast New Mexico. Not surprisingly, our lead story was about water. At the time, Las Vegas was facing some serious drought conditions that had slowed the Gallinas River to little more than a trickle, leaving the city — which gets nearly all its water from the Gallinas — with only a couple months of water in reserve. City officials at that time said the reservoirs were only 68% full and sinking. Also aro...
