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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The business world is ever changing, thanks in large part to online retailers. Two events next week hope to shine a light into the darkness. The New Mexico Small Business Development Center is holding a free "Surviving Amazon" workshop from 5:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Monday at the Yam Theater in Portales, and another from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Curry County Chamber of Commerce in Clovis. The growing power of e-commerce giant Amazon inspired the NMSBDC to hold the workshops, according to business advisor Dominique...
PORTALES — A former manager of the Portales Country Club was arrested Thursday on 54 counts of embezzlement. Neva McDaniel, 61, was charged after a Portales Police Department investigation found she embezzled over $25,000 from January 2014 to November 2016, according to the arrest affidavit. She was in Roosevelt County Detention Center on Friday, but jail Administrator Justin Porter said she was expected to be released on a personal-recognizance bond sometime Friday night. S...
PORTALES — A Portales man on Friday was sentenced to five years in the New Mexico Department of Corrections after pleading no contest to charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and vehicular homicide. Eduardo Lopez, 24, fled in his vehicle from Roosevelt County Sheriff's deputies for eight miles in August 2016. The incident ended in the death of 33-year-old Irisema Hernandez when Lopez swerved to avoid road spikes and hit a tree. Ninth Judicial District Court J...
PORTALES — A former Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education member’s long record of service was written into the history books Tuesday evening. Portales High School’s new home economics classroom was named the Mary Lou Rowley Family and Consumer Sciences Center after the 28-year board veteran and former teacher. Superintendent Johnnie Cain read a resolution naming the classroom after Rowley because she “has unselfishly supported the program, staff, and students of the Portales Municipal Schools and the Board of Educati...
PORTALES — A Portales bar has sold its package liquor license to the city's new grocery store for an undisclosed amount. An application for a transfer of ownership and location for a license from Goober McCool's Saloon and Spirit Shoppe to Farmers Country Market was sent to the city of Portales by the New Mexico Department of Alcohol and Gaming, Regulation and Licensing Deputy Superintendent Alex Sanchez confirmed Tuesday. The city must hold a public hearing for the a...
PORTALES — Every organization needs some help from "behind the scenes" to function at its best. At Friday's Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents meeting, one of those helpers was recognized. Deborah Bentley, executive secretary to President Jeff Elwell and the board, will retire on Oct. 31, so her colleagues honored her service. "Deborah has served this university for 21 years, and we've been blessed to have her," said Board President Dan Patterson. "We want you t...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico is celebrating homecoming. Festivities ramp up on Friday. The president's backyard barbecue will begin at 6 p.m. at the president's home at 1600 W. Cherry St., said Alumni Affairs Director Annamaria Short. "We haven't had that for the last couple of years, but with the new president (Jeff Elwell), we wanted to invite everybody to come and meet him," she said. A bonfire and pep rally are also set for Friday, at 7:10 p.m. at Greyhound Stadium. K...
PORTALES — Area residents wanting to offer input at Portales City Council meetings will be on the clock after the council voted Tuesday to formalize the process. Council members unanimously agreed to ask those addressing the council to limit their comments to three minutes. They also clarified that no formal action can be taken during the public input sessions. Council members will, however, continue to respond to comments. The proposal was brought to the council’s Sept. 19 meeting by City Attorney Steve Doerr, who tho...
PORTALES — The city of Portales is hoping to update its Johnson Hill water storage tanks, with some help from the New Mexico Water Trust Board. City Manager Sammy Standefer said a resolution to file an application for $2.9 million to rehabilitate the tanks will be up for approval at tonight’s Portales City Council meeting. The meeting is set for 6 p.m. in the Memorial Building. “They’re not in dire need, but there’s some more piping issues that we have that we want to change up to make it work a little bit better,...
PORTALES — Dust off your dictionaries and ready your wit; Eastern New Mexico University's production of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is on its way. The musical — a socially conscious mix of clever humor, heartfelt dialogue, and rousing musical numbers, according to Director Anne Beck — is scheduled to be performed Thursday through Sunday at the university's theater. The story centers on six diverse elementary school students competing in a spelling bee and,...
PORTALES — Changes are coming to Portales city government. Mayor Sharon King and Councilman Antonio Salguero say they won’t seek re-election in March. And Councilwoman Dianne Parker said she is undecided on whether to run again. Four council seats and the mayor’s position will be on the March 6 ballot. Filing for the election is Jan. 2. Michael Miller and Oscar Robinson said this week they will seek another four-year term. King said Friday she won’t seek her third four-year term. “It’s primarily because of my health,” sh...
DORA — All but one member of the Dora Consolidated Schools Board of Education have resigned, according to the school’s interim superintendent. Brandon Hays said Wednesday afternoon he will be posting a public notice from the New Mexico Public Education Department accepting applications for four positions on the board. The vacant positions are those of John Mohon, Kenneth Cox, Bill Prater, and Gary Simpson, Hays said. Community members have called for the resignations of all board members, following release of a state aud...
PORTALES — Roosevelt General Hospital Chief Executive Officer Kaye Green laid out the facility’s financial goals at a board of trustees meeting Monday night. After Chief Financial Officer Bill Boyer reported that RGH made just under $63,000 in profit for the month of August through gross receipts tax, Green said administration will be working over the next year to get the hospital in the black through operations alone. “We’ve been in the black for the past three years just because of GRT,” she said. “My goal, and our team’s g...
Eastern New Mexico farmers seldom speak negatively about rain, but when they do, they're usually referring to its inconsistency. Storms produced rainfall totals of more than 2 1/2 inches in Clovis and more than 1 1/2 inches in Portales over the weekend, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Chuck Jones. Roosevelt County farmer Matt Rush nearly reached the point of too much rain after a series of heavy storms in August, but this was followed by a long dry period....
PORTALES — An "A" grade by James Elementary School in last year's state report card was recognized Friday morning with a dance party and a visit from a state official. "This is an exciting day," New Mexico Public Education Secretary Designate Christopher Ruszkowski said, his statement met by a cacophony of ecstatic screams from hundreds of first and second graders. Ruszkowski has been visiting schools that received an "A" grade as part of his department's Straight A Express T...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority learned at its Thursday meeting that securing an easement for a pipeline from Cannon Air Force Base to Portales may prove costly. CAFB Water Quality Project Manager John Rebman told members in the public input portion of the meeting that three parcels of land where the pipeline from Ute Lake is set to be constructed require an undetermined cost for the 5,400 feet of land. “It’s not gonna be an in-kind consideration like it was on the northern portion of the pipel...
PORTALES — City councilors took the first step at their Tuesday meeting toward giving the Portales Police Department its own space. A resolution authorizing the purchase of the former magistrate court building on U.S. 70 for $339,400 was approved after concerns about the building’s size by Councilor Antonio Salguero were addressed. “Is that building really that big? I look at it from the street and I say, ‘Is that building enough to handle a police department?’” he said. City Manager Sammy Standefer assured Salguero th...
PORTALES — Two action items that were tabled at Tuesday’s Portales City Council meeting also prompted the most discussion. A proposal to change the public input portion of the meeting was put forth by City Attorney Steve Doerr after he had received requests by several council members to propose changes. Doerr told the council a change to public input was necessary to avoid violating the Open Meetings Act by taking any action not specified in the agenda. “This council has, in the past — and I think most governmental entities d...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Commission learned at its Tuesday meeting that more progress has been made in declaring a disaster in the county. Road Superintendent Ricky Lovato reported he had recently taken representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security on a tour of roads damaged by flooding in August. "All last week, we worked on paperwork, trying to get everything done that they need done, so they can move forward on t...
PORTALES — A Portales man on Monday was found guilty of rape and faces up to 53 years in prison. Jurors found Roy Brown, 29, guilty of two counts of criminal sexual penetration resulting in great bodily harm, plus aggravated battery and other charges. Brown was arrested in June of 2016, accused of sexually assaulting a woman after forcibly entering her home south of Portales. “I never had a doubt in my mind that this defendant sexually assaulted (the woman). It’s a good day for Portales, and it’s a good day for victims...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents grilled the director of the New Mexico Risk Management Division on Thursday about withdrawing from its insurance coverage. NMRMD Director Lara White-Davis, along with representatives of the New Mexico Public Schools Insurance Authority, were invited to the board’s meeting to present risk management insurance plans. During White-Davis’ presentation of ENMU’s 2019 allocation, the board communicated that it had expressed a desire to withdraw from the coverage for the...
Pete Domenici was a longtime U.S. senator, but in New Mexico, many called him friend. Domenici, 85, died Wednesday of complications from abdominal surgery. The Republican was known for his bi-partisan deal making and putting his home state first in Washington, protecting funds for Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories and helping to keep Cannon Air Force Base open in the face of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process. "Pete Domenici was the guy who saved Cannon... Full story
PORTALES — The Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education heard at its Monday night meeting plans to shift New Mexico’s legislative priorities. Larry Smith and Bill Calton, members of the Roosevelt County Republican Party, told the board they had been working with local legislators to draft a resolution that would establish a state school board that would hire the state superintendent of public instruction. Smith said the idea for the resolution began during the 2014 gubernatorial election, in which Gov. Susana Mar...
DORA — A group of Dora citizens is accelerating its efforts to ask the Dora Consolidated Schools Board of Education to resign. In a board meeting Monday night, the group presented a list of citizens that had signed an informal petition asking the board to resign. The action stemmed from the findings of a July report by the state auditor, which identified over $100,000 in potentially mismanaged school funds between June 2013 and the end of 2016. “I think the community kind of decided to present it better, asking for the resign...
For many in eastern New Mexico, the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, was an opportunity not only for remembrance but also a reflection on current events. "The pain of that day is instilled in our hearts forever," said Ricky Sisneros, Grand Knight of Clovis' Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. "It has also come into our own community. Terror can happen anywhere and anytime." Sisneros, speaking at a morning flag-lowering ceremony held Monday at the Ame...
