Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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The Bank of Clovis has been working on expanding in the region, but in a way you may not recognize. The banks don’t bear the name “Bank of Clovis.” They are the Bank of Clayton, the Bank of Logan and soon there will be a Bank of Tucumcari and the Bank of Des Moines, all divisions of The Bank of Clovis. Bank of Clovis President Randy Harris came up with the idea with the first bank he opened. “The first one was the Bank of Clovis. Look, the bottom line is rural communities on the east side of the state need good solid communi...
What are you waiting for? The truth is that most of us spend the vast majority of our lives waiting for something. Maybe it’s a birthday. A vacation. A holiday. A graduation. A wedding. An anniversary. A retirement. Maybe it’s when the baby is finally born, or the student loan (good luck waiting that out!) or car or house or business loan is eventually paid off. You waited — even as you were working all the necessary hours and many more — to achieve that hard-to-reach business goal or rank. You waited — even as you trained, p...
I was chatting with someone the other day who had once upon a time moved to our area from Santa Fe, the state capitol, “the City Different.” “Don’t hold it against me,” she said. “Not at all. You were probably there when it was really Santa Fe. You yourself know it’s changed over the years,” I said. My favorite Santa Fe quote emerged around 1990 in some state newspaper. A columnist wrote something to the effect, he so hated seeing “New Mexico’s crown jewel turn into one of California and New York’s cheap rhinestones.” I...
Jay Parmenter, a regular tour guide at the Norman Petty Studio, first met Jimmy Gilmer while leading one of those tours. “The tour was for about 20 people,” Parmenter said. “I had never met Jimmy and he just looked like every other tourist in that group. He was with his wife.” Then Parmenter began playing a studio tape that happened to feature Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs. “He (Gilmer) turned around and said, ‘I still sound good after all these years.’” Parmenter said sudden...
When Isaac Corral sold his goat, Pancho, for $13,000 at the Curry County Fair Junior Livestock Sale last month, that was the top bid of the event. With supporting add ons after the sale, Corral said he earned over $15,000. "There wasn't a dry eye in the sale ring when Isaac went through. They knew how hard he worked and what he went through," Malia Blackburn said. Blackburn is Corral's agriculture education teacher and Future Farmers of America advisor at Clovis High School....
Curry County commissioners on Tuesday approved a 2.5% drop in the county property tax rate. The tax rate is set by the state Department of Finance and Administration, then relayed to County Assessor Sam Kelley, who in turn brings the rate to the County Commission for implementation. The owner of a $100,000 home will pay about $10 less annually under the new rate, Kelley said. Commissioners said the only county entity that had acknowledged the notice of the new rate was Clovis...
A county sports complex proposed two years ago is still a hot topic among Curry County commissioners. Commissioners debated it again Tuesday as part of a proposal to engage the services of FBT Architects of Albuquerque in the initial phase of planning. The facility would have four basketball courts, a 25-meter pool, a youth pool, three multipurpose rooms, a running track, a youth play area, a rock-climbing wall, two multipurpose fields and two baseball/softball diamonds. “I think it’s a good project, but I don’t see peopl...
Officials with the New Mexico Land Office showed up at Tuesday’s Roosevelt County Commission meeting seeking what was described as a “long overdue” solution to some county roads traversing state-owned land without compensation to the state. State officials allege the county owes it more than $693,000, but would accept $40,223 under its amnesty program. James Bordegaray, director of the Land Office’s Commerce Resources Division, said of particular interest is the use of the road to the Melrose Bombing Range, a few select other...
Portales City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to stay with the Ute Water Pipeline Project despite an attempt by Logan attorney Warren Frost to dissuade City Council members from doing so. Frost was given 10 minutes to give a presentation to the Council on why the pipeline project should be immediately halted. Frost went over his 10 minutes despite Mayor Mike Miller telling him repeatedly he had exceeded his allotted time. Frost said “new information” had been discovered about the pipeline that “raises concerns.” “All pla...
ENMU broadcast facility named for Duane Ryan By Grant McGee The Staff of The News [email protected] Eastern New Mexico University’s Board of Regents on Friday voted unanimously to rename the university’s broadcast center to honor the former director of broadcasting at KENW-TV and radio, Duane Ryan. The vote came after an executive session discussing the action. According to a Monday ENMU news release, the dedication of the Duane W. Ryan Broadcast Center will be Oct. 26 dur...
It was a Sunday morning and I was pondering the day ahead as I drank my coffee and The Lady of The House had her tea. “I think I can get two mowings in today. I gotta get my mowing done before the weed police cruise the neighborhood,” I said. We have an electric lawn mower. I can knock out about a half-hour of mowing before it needs to be charged again. It takes about three mowings to tackle our hacienda’s lawn. “We need a goat to take care of the lawn,” The Lady of The House said. This is not the first time bringing...
What else is on the Nov. 5 ballot in Curry and Roosevelt counties besides candidate races? There are going to be four constitutional amendments on the ballot that were passed by the Legislature earlier this year, according to an email response from Roosevelt County Clerk Mandi Park. Voters will be asked to consider: • Constitutional Amendment 1 Proposes an amendment to Article 8, Section 15 of the Constitution of New Mexico to extend a property tax exemption, currently only allowed for one hundred percent disabled veterans a...
Traffic at Clovis Regional Airport has nearly tripled in the past five years. Clovis city commissioners on Thursday responded to that growth by greenlighting a new $25.5 million terminal. Commissioners approved a low-bid award to EPX Construction Partners of El Paso, Texas, as the contractor to build the terminal. City Manager Justin Howalt said the city's share of the cost will be about $500,000. The Federal Aviation Administration will fund the rest. The airport saw about...
Local Realtor Brett Johnson called The News not long ago. "I know a guy you need to interview for 'Our People' in your Sunday paper. Alan Kinlund. He just won his second award from Forbes magazine," Johnson said. When you go into Kinlund's meeting room in his office on 21st Street in Clovis, there are the awards to the man from Raton who went to Eastern New Mexico University, spent time in San Francisco and came to Clovis. His 2023 award features a bear, his 2024 award...
New Mexico Gas Company personnel were busy Thursday answering calls around Clovis about the smell of gas. “We had a high volume of leak calls,” said Tim Korte, communications manager for New Mexico Gas Co. “Typically we might have five or six calls a day. Thursday we had 92. We had people working until 10 p.m. Thursday.” Korte said the source of the increased number of gas smells was “what we call upstream of the Clovis service area.” He declined to be specific but said the odorant calls came from all over the city. Korte...
Clovis Community College’s Board of Trustees learned what acts are scheduled for the upcoming season of the college’s Cultural Arts Series at their regular monthly meeting Wednesday. Cultural Arts Series Director Christy Mendoza outlined seven acts that will be performing in town through April: n Sept. 21 it’s “The World Famous Popovich Comedy Pet Theater.” n Oct. 17 Sugar Skull, a musical production about Dia de los Muertos comes to town. n Nov. 7 it’s Sweet Jazz, which Mendoza described as “some of the best jazz in the s...
The other day I was chatting with a friend about a deal they were working on when an old saying came to mind. “It’s like this radio station owner back east told me a long time ago, ‘Everything I own is for sale,’ part of stuff he said on a road trip,” I said. I was remembering “Bossman.” I call a few people “Bossman.” I managed one of Bossman’s radio stations in West Virginia. One day he called me up. “McGee, come on up here and pick me up. It’s a surprise inspection. I want to see what you’re doing at my station,” he said. S...
Eastern New Mexico University and the ENMU Foundation will host an inaugural music, arts, film, and masterclass festival on the Portales campus, Tuesday through Sept. 12. According to an ENMU news release the festival is called "Return of the Hounds: Alumni Masterclass+Festival." The event "will bring back some of the university's most notable alumni for a three-day event to inspire a new generation of artists, musicians, and journalists." The festival is the creation of ENMU...
Stephen Hardin, named executive director of the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce in March, has handed in his resignation from the post effective Tuesday. He posted a letter to "my community" on Facebook. In it, Hardin thanked the community for "the opportunity to serve ... Unfortunately, due to employment logistics and financial concerns, I have found no other option than to resign." Karl Terry, who retired from the Chamber position prior to Hardin's hiring, said Thursday...
The Melrose Clinic, which has been offering one day a week medical services in Melrose since May 2023, is to be closed effective Oct. 1. The notice of closure came during the Curry County Commission's regular meeting Tuesday as Plains Regional Medical Center Chief Executive Bill Priest gave a presentation in the session. "Traffic volume is low. Volume is needed to sustain the facility. This is a problem nationwide. A community this size cannot sustain this," Priest said. Commi...
Curry and Roosevelt counties welcomed heavy rainfall Thursday night with some individuals reporting 3 to 4 inches in their home rain gauges. The moisture also brought cooler temperatures expected to continue through the Labor Day holiday weekend. Officially, Portales received 2.4 inches of rain between 7 a.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday, said Carter Greulich, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque. Clovis received 1.58 inches of rain between 10 a.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday, Greulich said. Brief...
Enrollment at Clovis Municipal Schools is down again, continuing a trend that began in 2012. CMS Deputy Superintendent of Academic Services and Leadership Carrie Nigreville shared the news with the school board Tuesday at its first regular meeting of the 2024-2025 academic year. During the 2011-2012 school year, CMS began the school year with 8,486 students enrolled. The beginning of this school year, 7,418 are enrolled, school records show. This time last year, 7,558 were...
Richard Gomez is concerned about the homeless problem in the Clovis area, and he wants to do something about it. Gomez, co-founder and executive director of Clovis' Lighthouse Mission, said he walked away from Thursday's Clovis City Commission meeting concerned about what he heard. Commissioners unanimously approved an anti-camping ordinance city officials said is aimed at community safety. Gomez said he believes the ordinance "is for good reasons but we need to find a...
I was standing in my kitchen the other day and I chuckled, remembering being sent home from work a few years ago. I’ve been sent home from work two times in my life: The first time was from a new car dealership in Phoenix, the second time from a call center in Pensacola, Fla. Not fired, just sent home for the day. It’s not like I was a teenager or wise-guy college student or something. The new car dealership was a high-pressure sales gig in The Valley of The Sun. One Saturday I thought I had my “car salesman’s hustle...
Despite about a dozen protestors outside, Clovis city commissioners at their regular meeting Thursday voted to adopt an ordinance forbidding camping on city property, including parks. The ordinance is seen by some as a public safety measure and by others as an affront to the homeless. The proposal first appeared in July, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court greenlighting a similar ordinance in Grants Pass, Ore. A first violation of the new ordinance will be met with a...
