Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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If you ask the Society for American Archaeologists, it might say James Warnica “was instrumental in preservation of threatened collections and records from Blackwater Draw,” but if you ask him about the prestigious award he recently received from SAA, he will just say he was doing what he loved. SAA held its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., April 11-15, where it announced Warnica would be receiving the Crabtree Award, an accolade presented to avocational archaeologists who “have made significant contributions to advan...
PORTALES — The beginning budget for Portales Municipal Schools’ 2018-2019 fiscal year will be $23.2 million, according to officials. Finance Director Sarah Stubbs said at the Portales Board of Education’s regular meeting on Thursday that the number — higher than the district’s previous budget of $21.7 million — is due to the district paying off some of its bonds. She reported to the board that the district will also see an increase in take-home pay for employees. “It just depends on where they fall on the salary schedu...
PORTALES - A Portales man charged with murder following an April 19 shooting death has been denied release from the Roosevelt County Adult Detention Center. District Judge Drew Tatum on Thursday made the ruling after hearing arguments from prosecution and defense attorneys. Gerardo Marquez, 34, is accused of killing Erika Zamorano, 32, at her home on the 900 block of East Second Street in Portales. To provide "clear and convincing evidence" that Marquez' release would be a dan...
PORTALES — A crowded Yam Theatre heard from political candidates from all manner of races Tuesday night. Before kicking off two hours of political pitches, master of ceremonies Pat Boone reminded attendees of the event’s importance. “It’s not just something that we are trying to do to get people to come together and eat and visit and have a good time. We’re trying to learn something about these people,” he said. “We’re trying to figure out who, according to our way of thinking, is going to be the best to serve our interests i...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Community Development Corporation has found a new executive director within the state. William Hendrickson of Las Vegas, New Mexico, was chosen as the new executive director, according to a Wednesday press release by RCCDC. He starts to work on Monday, the release said. RCCDC Board President Randy Knudson said Hendrickson’s “international background” and interest in economic development made him the best candidate. “He had worked for a number of years for Lockheed Martin and for General E...
PORTALES - "Steel Magnolias" is widely viewed as a classic film from the 1980s. Many do not know, however, that it was a play first. The Eastern New Mexico University Department of Theatre and Digital Filmmaking is offering to show audiences what they've been missing starting on Thursday. Set in Louisiana, the play highlights three years in the lives of a group of women at a salon, including mother M'Lynn and her daughter Shelby, who struggles with Type 1 diabetes. The real...
A lot can happen in 50 years. Radio and television stations can be formed, and a plethora of students can go on to successful careers in broadcasting. For Duane Ryan, that scenario is a reality. The KENW director of broadcasting was honored at the Eastern New Mexico University Spirit of Eastern Awards for half a century at the station. KENW Community Services Consultant Don Criss gave a presentation on his boss, who he has worked with for 44 years. He remembered the early...
PORTALES — The first step in understanding and accepting transgender people is as simple as realizing there are more than two kinds of people in the world, according to the director of the New Mexico Transgender Resource Center. Adrien Lawyer presented a “cultural humility” training course for a group of Eastern New Mexico University faculty, staff and students Monday afternoon, where he said that cisgender people — or people who are not transgender — will never be experts about their transgender fellows. “It’s not just abou...
PORTALES — The victim of an alleged Thursday homicide was a “great soul,” a “go getter” and a “wonderful mother,” according to a friend. That’s how Cynthia Dominguez remembered her friend of 20 years, Erika Zamorano, who was found dead around 9:45 p.m. Thursday in a home on the 900 block of E. Second St. in Portales. Court records show that Zamorano had a wound over her left eye “consistent with a possible gunshot wound.” 34-year-old Gerardo Marquez, of Portales, was charged with Zamorano’s murder and booked into the Curry Co...
All aboard, Clovis: Trains are rolling in on Saturday, but not the kind you might think. The Clovis Area Train Society is holding a model train show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Ingram Room of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. Eugene Kelly said visitors will be able to see several table tops full of model trains. "Various members have built different modules. Each scenic's different from the next, and they all join together to create one large layout," he said. Kelly hopes...
PORTALES — Students in this busy age may sometimes feel they’re drowning in a sea of choices. That’s why a group of Portales High School students have decided to throw out some life preservers. Students Against Destructive Decisions is an organization dedicated to providing “students with the best prevention and intervention tools possible to deal with the issues of underage drinking, other drug use, impaired driving, and other destructive decisions,” according to its mission statement. A chapter of the organizat...
PORTALES — The fate of a memorandum of understanding between Portales and Clovis will be in Clovis’ hands after the state demanded a piece of the action. Councilors on Tuesday approved amendments to the MOU requested by the New Mexico Construction Industries Division, with the stipulation that all requests for building inspections would be directed to the state until the changes are approved by Clovis. The MOU in question would allow Portales to use Clovis’ building inspectors — because the community doesn’t have four buil...
In the fight against sexual violence, Leigh Ana Eugene’s voice rings loud and clear, according to a national organization. The director of Arise Sexual Assault Services in Portales was nominated for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s 2018 Visionary Voice Awards. That honors individuals who display “outstanding work toward ending sexual violence,” according to the group’s news release. Eugene has worked extensively to reach rural communities that have previously been under-served in the area of sexual violence...
PORTALES — After receiving concerns from residents, conducting traffic studies and debating extensively, the Roosevelt County Commission decided on Tuesday to remove stop signs from an intersection. Road Superintendent Ricky Lovato requested that stop signs on Roosevelt Road 7 at the intersection of Roosevelt Road S be removed after receiving complaints from county residents that drivers were not stopping anyway. "We believe that the people on S, if we remove the stop s...
PORTALES — Burners beware: A resolution seeking to restrict fire activity in Roosevelt County will be considered at today's commission meeting. County Manager Amber Hamilton said that because of extremely dry conditions in the county, a resolution to re-institute a fire ban will be brought before the commission. "We have a current ordinance on the books that allows for us to look at the various studies and geographic information coming out in regard to the current fire c...
MILNESAND — A fire that raged through Lea County before spreading to Roosevelt and Cochran counties on Thursday evening was contained as of Friday afternoon, according to Milnesand Fire Chief John Mohon. The fire, which Mohon said burned at least 60,000 acres, could flare back up, but is currently “under control.” “We’re just kind of looking for hot spots at the moment, but I think most of it is out right now. It probably went another 100 acres from (Thursday) night, probably 100 to 200 acres,” he said. Mohon said Roosev...
PORTALES — More than 100 Roosevelt County property owners will soon be in the public eye. County officials are spotlighting them for failing to pay their property taxes. County Treasurer Layle Sanchez said the accounts in question have all gone unpaid for close to three years, and if they don't make some sort of arrangement to pay before July 2, their properties will be seized by the state and sold in an auction. Aside from residents losing their properties, the county will lose revenue. Sanchez said that when the state t...
New Mexico: Great for green chile, but bad for millennials, according to a recent study. WalletHub has found that in a list of the best states for millennials — which includes the District of Columbia — New Mexico ranks 51. States were ranked — one being the best and 51 being the worst — by affordability, education and health, quality of life, economic health and civic engagement, and New Mexico was ranked in the lower 40s on each category. The District claimed the number one spot with the top rankings in education and hea...
For some, it evokes images of black cats and cracked mirrors; for others, a machete-wielding maniac in a hockey mask. For several High Plains residents, though, Friday the 13th is just another self-fulfilling prophecy. Though it is difficult to determine how the date was cemented as unlucky, a 2017 article by Live Science found that author Thomas William Lawson tied together Friday and 13 — both previously viewed as unlucky — in his 1907 novel “Friday the 13th.” For Portales resident Ose Alli, however, bad luck on Friday...
New Mexico is making strides in the fight against prescription painkiller deaths, according to the National Safety Council. In a recent report, the organization said New Mexico — along with 13 other states and Washington, D.C. — received its highest mark of “improving” in strengthening laws to reduce overdose deaths, according to a press release by the New Mexico Department of Health. Furthermore, New Mexico was one of only two states to implement six actions to address the opioid epidemic, which include mandating prescri...
PORTALES — Theater and law enforcement: While those two sound like a match akin to cops and robbers, they're being used together to educate tomorrow's law enforcement professionals. Don Raley, a criminal justice instructor at Eastern New Mexico University, explained that he was in need of an interactive piece for a class he's teaching this semester called "Advanced Criminal Investigations." He wanted to be able to simulate a homicide investigation, and figured there would b...
PORTALES — A Portales man charged with the DWI-related death of his son last April will spend four days in jail and over five years on probation after Judge Donna Mowrer accepted a guilty plea on Monday. Before approving the plea, Mowrer told Randolph McGee, 66, that 10 years of prison time taken from his sentence as part of the plea will be his punishment for violating his probation. "So if you get to four years and 364 days and you violate your probation, you can still go t...
PORTALES — The city hopes to be a little more “Clean and Beautiful” after councilors approved changes to the program’s 2018-2019 application at Tuesday night’s meeting. The application for the Clean and Beautiful grant program — designed to encourage residents to keep their community clean — included three new projects. Deputy City Clerk Veda Urioste’s first new project, a biannual “cleanest yard program,” would award a resident in each ward for having the most well-kept yard. The winner would receive a sign recognizing th...
Fifty years ago today, James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. The slaying inspired Americans black and white to take up the civil rights leader’s fight, which they continue today. Joyce Pollard of Clovis described April 4, 1968, as “a very sad, dark day” in Fort Hood, Texas, where she lived at the time. King had addressed death in some of his speeches — including one he made the night before his assassination — and Pollard was inspired by his conviction to live the best life he could. “T...
PORTALES — The suspect in a fatal crash possibly caused by alcohol on Saturday told police he was returning home from watching a movie at 4:30 a.m., officials said. Ricardo Navarrete, 31, of Portales, was arrested Saturday morning after police say his vehicle struck another car from behind, killing the driver. Jose Saldana-Pinales, 41, of Portales, was ejected from his vehicle after it was rear-ended by Navarrete's truck, according to a press release by the New Mexico State P...
