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The Ute Water Pipeline Project has a fresh infusion of $20 million in a loan/grant agreement from the state of New Mexico. The news came at the December meeting in Clovis Thursday of the board of the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority, the agency that is overseeing the construction of the pipeline from Ute Reservoir to various municipalities in the area as well as Cannon Air Force Base. In other business, the board approved plans, specifications and construction bid packaging for the part of the pipeline called Raw...
Curry County commissioners on Tuesday tentatively approved naming the county's Events Center after a long-established Clovis bank. The Citizens Bank of Clovis Curry County Events Center will be the facility's new name following completion of negotiations by center General Manager K. C. Messick, bank President Kent Carruthers and bank management staff member Richard Hadley. Terms of the agreement were not released. Messick said he would not reveal the amount Citizens Bank will...
Jennifer Bussey believes in Santa Claus. "He is real. It's the idea of giving not receiving. It's the spirit of Christmas. Better to give than receive," she said. She shared more about her life in an interview with The News last week. Q: Where did you grow up? A: Petersburg, Texas. Petersburg is 15 miles off I-27 between Lubbock and Plainview. I graduated from Petersburg High School, I attended South Plains College in Levelland then transferred to Texas Tech. I have two degree...
Portales City Manager Chris Moyer on Tuesday outlined his hopes for the city in the upcoming year. The presentation came in a routine regular session of the Council, the last session of 2024. Moyer said he hopes to see Portales increase training and personnel budgets. “Taking care of our people and making sure we have a highly qualified workforce,” Moyer said to council members. Moyer’s second point is working the continuing process of finding new water sources and the funding to secure them. Moyer wants to put artif...
The Clovis Municipal Schools Board on Tuesday began the process of liquidating some system properties in a sealed bid process that must be approved by the state. CMS Deputy Superintendent of Operations, Technology and Athletics Jay Brady outlined the process for board members, noting each property for sale must first have a resolution passed by the board for a sale. The downsizing is part of the system's master plan introduced earlier this year. "Downsizing, selling...
Roosevelt County commissioners on Tuesday said farewell to two members who have reached their term limits. The terms of District 1 Commissioner Dennis Lopez and District 2 Commissioner Rodney Savage expire Dec. 31. Replacing the two are Fabian Muñoz in District 1 and former County Sheriff Malin Parker in District 2. Their terms officially begin Jan. 1. Remaining members - Commission Chair Tina Dixon and Commissioners Paul Grider and Roy Lee Criswell paid compliments and asides with Lopez and Savage. Lopez and Savage...
Clovis cannabis consumers may soon be allowed to shop later for the product. Clovis City Commission on Thursday tentatively approved a plan for extended hours cannabis businesses can stay open – from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. The retailers can continue to open at 9 a.m. and they can still operate daily, assuming the change introduced Thursday is formally adopted at the city’s next meeting in January. Commissioners approved the new hours by a 7-1 vote with Debbie Zamora opposed and Helen Casaus absent. Alex Stalker, manager of Clo...
My appreciation for our neighbor to the north, Canada, goes way back. Back to when I was a Boy Scout and I had Canadian dreams. Or when my dad, the hotel man, was once in consideration for a managing position at a hotel in Banff, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. A place where elk wandered around on the hotel grounds. I thought of those deep forests, the huge lakes, the snow-capped mountains, the raging rivers, the seemingly endless lakes scattered everywhere, and much more. And when I worked with a Canadian here in Clovis,...
Wes Robertson is one of those folks who dreamed about what he wanted to be when he grew up, and that's what he became. "I was fascinated by those old 'Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom' TV shows. I wanted to become a wildlife biologist and that's what I became," Robertson said. Robertson retired from his Game and Fish career about 16 years ago. Since then, he has gone places and done things. Robertson shared more about his life with The News: Q: Where were you born? Tell us...
It started with all the students at Yucca Middle School. Then there were 128, then 30, and finally three. It was the competition for Yucca's first "Amazing Shake Contest" that wrapped up Thursday. The nationally held contest is the idea of education motivational speaker Ron Clark. The contest was started at his Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta in 2018 and, according to Yucca Theater and Digital Filmmaking teacher Sarah Morrow, "has expanded globally due to its success." "This...
Who is Harry Hoffman? And why is he associated with 100 voices? The answers can be found in a feature-length film from an Eastern New Mexico University cast and crew from the Department of Theatre & Digital Filmmaking. The film debuts at 7 tonight at ENMU's University Theater Center Mainstage. "'The Hundred Voices of Harry Hoffman' is about 90 minutes long. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with some of the filmmakers," Department Chair Jonathan Barr said...
My Aunt Minerva and Uncle Brian from Jal went shopping in Hobbs the other day and they saw something they hadn’t seen before: A panhandler with a handmade sign that read, “Why lie? I need a beer.” “He deserves points for honesty and humor,” Uncle Brian posted on Facebook. Their traveler’s tale reminded me of panhandlers, street people, their signs and my encounters with them over the years. My favorite was the long-haired dude standing by a Pensacola, Fla., boulevard a few years ago with his sign: “Need cash to repair spaces...
Family and faith define Bryan Davis. He was born and raised in Clovis, but he has spent time living in other places, including Lubbock and in Mexico in Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua. Davis shared a bit about his life on Wednesday. Q: You were born and raised in Clovis. Tell us about how your family came to be here. A: My mom was born and raised here. My dad's father, my grandfather, was stationed here at Cannon Air Force Base in the 1960s. Q: Tell us about your family. A: I'm very...
Clovis City commissioners on Thursday voted to end Clovis Area Transit System service to Portales. The matter was passed unanimously as a consent agenda item at the Commission’s first meeting of December. The request to end the route was brought before the Commission on the agenda by CATS Director Garry Johnson. According to an elaboration in the Commission’s agenda packet, the service was initially a pilot program started by Senior Services to transport dialysis patients from Portales to Clovis and back to Portales. Sen...
Portales City Council approved a cannabis manufacturing business in the city at Tuesday’s regular council meeting. Enchanted Desert Farm, located at 1301 S. Avenue D, is owned by Sam Viscaino. Viscaino gave a presentation and he took questions. The vote to approve was 5 to 3. Contacted after the meeting, Viscaino said he hung around after the session to query councilors Veronica Cordova, Preston Elkins and Eldon Merrick, who voted against his proposal. Viscaino said he talked to all three councilors. Viscaino said Elkins a...
Roosevelt County commissioners on Tuesday voted 3-2 to not pay the New Mexico Land Office about $40,000 for county roads that traverse state owned lands in Roosevelt County. Discussion on the matter took up a significant portion of the meeting. Officials with the NM Land Office appeared at the county’s Sept. 10 meeting seeking what was described as a “long overdue” solution to the issue. State officials, alleging the county owes it more than $693,000, told commissioners the Land Office would accept a one-time payment of $4...
I was working at a place a few years ago when, one day, the manager was yelling, sending someone home to change clothes. “You are dressed totally inappropriately. Go home now and change clothes,” Mr. Manager commanded to the female staff member. I hadn’t heard or seen someone getting sent home like that since junior high school. Yeah, junior high. I don’t know when or why this “middle school” stuff started. I come from a time when kids got sent home for skirts that were too short or hair that was too long. Such things were...
'Tis the season for parades. Clovis, Farwell, Melrose and Portales all have planned to light up the night. First up: The Portales Christmas Light Parade is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday. The lineup begins at the Eastern New Mexico University Theatre before traveling down Second Street to Main Street, and then wrapping up in the parking lot at C&S, Inc., 300 W. First St. More information is available by calling 575-356-8541. Clovis' Christmas Light Parade is set for 7...
The Clovis Community Chorus Christmas Concert is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at First Methodist Church, 14th and Sycamore streets. If you go, you might notice a guy playing the piano, the chorus' accompanist, James Golden. Those in attendance will experience "a variety of music across multiple genres and time periods," Golden said. "After the concert there will be a reception with drinks and goodies." Chorus Director Tami Martin "has done a great job in selecting the music for the...
Clovis City commissioners on Tuesday funded staffing for a new food program at the city’s Hillcrest Senior Life Center. The action is in the wake of the New Mexico Agency on Aging’s termination of the existing contract with the Curry Resident Senior Meals Association for meal services in October. With the city taking over the Hillcrest Senior Life Center’s meal program, effective Monday, the first action commissioners took was the funding and authorizing hiring of part-time drivers for home delivery meals from the Hillc...
Somebody once told me if a memory, apropos of nothing, pops up in your head it means the brain cell that was holding it died and the memory is floating around in your head looking for a new cellular home. Sounds plausible to me. I figure that’s where a weird memory, weird words, came floating into my head the other Saturday morning. “Wadat in chew, Wadat in chew. Ishbilly oaten doaten, bobo ske deet in doten Wadat in chew…” These are some of the words to a hand clapping, foot stompin’, call and response song we scouts sa...
You don't see this Christmas tree every day. It's decorated with ornaments representing each squadron on Cannon Air Force Base. The base has a tree skirt made of 30mm casings from a United States Air Force gunship. It stole the show at the Hartley House Festival of Trees auction on Saturday, bringing in the top prize of $22,000. Nurstead Consulting, a behavioral health consulting and training firm, made the winning bid. "The Cannon Spouses tree is always one of the more...
When Rebecca Holt first heard the news, it brought back a lifetime of memories. "When I saw his obituary I thought, 'Oh no, B-Bop passed away,'" she said. "I didn't even know his real name. It is an emotional loss. Our family knew him for years. We have lost an amazing clown. One of our town's own. He shared a lot of love with our community. His wife used to be our kids' music teacher at Zia Elementary." B-Bop was Jerry Shade. He died Nov. 19 at age 82. As B-Bop, he was a fixt...
The newest member of the Clovis Municipal Schools Board of Education has ties to Cannon Air Force Base and the Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce. Board members Cindy Osburn, Terry Martin, Shawn Hamilton and Paul Cordova selected Amy Egbert for the position by unanimous vote on Tuesday night. Egbert will be representing CMS District 1, filling a vacancy left by Sharon Epps who resigned in October, citing family health needs. “I’m honored to be a part of this and I’m looking forward to hearing from the community and h...
The city of Clovis plans to crack down on panhandlers with the introduction Thursday of new city codes targeting the activity. City Attorney Jared Morris described the legal climate for such a move is good in light of Las Cruces adopting similar ordinances in September. "There has been recent case law as to how far cities may go," Morris told commissioners. Morris said the codes make clear the action is in relation to public safety. Targeted is aggressive solicitation,...
