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CLOVIS — In a 1972 Clovis High School senior English class, students took part in an exercise. They told their classmates about their plans following graduation. Some were going off to college, others entering the workforce. Meanwhile one student, Tony Marion, "got up there and I told them I had no idea," Marion told The News on Monday. "I said 'whatever comes is what comes.'" Marion would soon realize that what was coming his way was 45 years at ENMRSH providing assistance t...
PORTALES — The Roosevelt County Commission unanimously voted to extend the sunset date of the Roosevelt General Hospital gross receipts tax by 10 years during Tuesday’s meeting. RGH Chief Executive Officer Kaye Green said by extending the sunset to July 1, 2047, the hospital can explore 20- or 25-year financing to pay for a new $4.5 million emergency department and new operating rooms. Commissioners Matthew Hunton and Shane Lee were absent. In other business at Tuesday’s meeting (all votes 3-0): • Following an approxi...
PORTALES — A Portales resident was struck and killed by a train between Main Street and Avenue B about 8:30 Monday night. Jose Lucero was 71. Pauline Ornelas, Lucero’s niece, told The News that Lucero was walking to his father’s house, as he does every day. Ornelas said she did not know what Lucero would have been doing on the tracks, hypothesizing that perhaps he had tripped and could not get back up. She said police told her that he was just lying on the tracks when he was hit. Ornelas said Lucero was retired from his w...
PORTALES — A combination quilt exhibition and fundraiser is coming to the Portales Public Library as the "Stitches & Stories" display is set to begin with an artist reception on Monday. Organizer Betty Williamson said individuals from around eastern New Mexico, and the world, designed miniature quilts with accompanying 250-word stories. She said the designs were completely up to the artist. One quilt features a cowboy boot and tells the story of women walking in their boots on...
FRIONA — An afternoon of free food and fun drew hundreds of west Texas residents as Cargill celebrated the 50th anniversary of its beef processing plant in Friona. General Manager Scott Pohlman estimated as many as 500 people filled the Friona City Park on Saturday, a testament to the relationship between the company and the city. "It's a very strong, symbiotic relationship between us and Friona," Pohlman said. "We're the largest employer in a three-county area and so we rely...
CLOVIS — The updates at Clovis' Historic Railroad Park are still ongoing and Clovis MainStreet is now looking to get the public involved. Members of the community are being asked to purchase engraved bricks and bench plaques, which will be on display at the park for years to come. "We are just really excited for the project and we're really happy to be able to include the public into it," Clovis MainStreet Executive Director Lisa Pellegrino-Spear said. For the bench p...
New Mexico lawmakers are looking at ways to extend the school year for students in the Land of Enchantment by 10 days or more, according to a report from The Associated Press. Officials at eastern New Mexico’s two largest school districts expressed different feelings about the idea when they talked to The News on Friday. Clovis Municipal Schools Superintendent Jody Balch said he had no issues with extending the school year, provided the Legislature finds a way to account for the salary increases that would be required for sch... Full story
CLOVIS — Plains Regional Medical Center recently received a pair of statewide awards related to the quality of care at the hospital, according to a PRMC press release. The hospital earned the Hospital Innovation Improvement Network Award from the New Mexico Hospital Association and the 2018 Hospital Quality Award from HealthInsight, a nonprofit organization seeking to improve health care in New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon and Utah. “Honestly it just speaks to the quality of care we provide at the hospital,” Chief Nursing Execu... Full story
PORTALES — All action items were approved during a “really quick, short meeting” of the Portales City Council on Tuesday, City Manager Sammy Standefer told The News. The council approved a nearly $2.5 million grant/loan to the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority, Standefer said. The city will be responsible for $52,037, which is 20.87 percent of the loan amount. The money will go to construction of the Cannon-to-Clovis pipeline Finish Water 2, set to begin by the end of the year. Councilor Chadrick Heflin cast the l...
CLOVIS — An expansion of the Hope Children's Home in Tampa, Florida, is coming to Clovis and the group plans to celebrate its arrival with a grand opening. Saturday's ceremony will begin around 11 a.m. at the children's home, 2210 Mabry Drive, and will include a free meal, games and bouncy houses for children and an open house of the home itself for community members to walk around and get a sense of the building, said house parent Ed Hofknecht. "We just want people to know w...
CLOVIS — Regina Gaysina, an associate at RBC Capital Markets, Clovis Municipal Schools' broker, gave an update to the CMS Board of Education on the district's sale of $7 million in general obligation bonds during Tuesday's meeting. Gaysina said that last Tuesday's bond sale elicited seven bids, with the winning bid including a total interest of about $2.5 million over 20 years. She said the district will receive the funds next week. Superintendent Jody Balch previously told T...
"I'm a rocket man ... burning out his fuse up here alone." — Elton John, 'Rocket Man' ELIDA — Today, Elida High School students will continue their work on a math and science project that would make Elton John proud. Around 1 p.m. today by the baseball field, 11th-grade students will be launching rockets into the air for the second day in a row in order to analyze their flight path. High school math teacher Jessica Faucett said the rocket project allows her students to practic... Full story
PORTALES — The Roosevelt General Hospital Board of Trustees unanimously approved a recommendation to the Roosevelt County Commission to extend the sunset date for the hospital gross receipts tax currently set to expire in 2037 during Monday's meeting. Chief Executive Officer Kaye Green said that by extending the tax's sunset 10 years from 2037 to 2047, it will allow the hospital to pursue 20- or 25-year financing to cover a new emergency department and expanded operating rooms. Green said she is set to speak before the c...
CLOVIS — Despite a brief scare when one of the stained glass panels split in half, a piece of art that has hung in the Clovis Community College commons area since the 1980s was removed on Saturday with relatively few hiccups. The eight stained glass panels making up the piece called "The Pair" were removed from their longtime home hanging from the second floor ceiling outside the school's bookstore due to safety concerns. Carpenter Larry Jones, one of several CCC employees who...
CLOVIS — Nathaniel Jouett, the now-17-year-old accused of killing two and injuring four in last year's library shooting, returned to court Friday for a hearing regarding his medical services. Correct Care Solutions, which provides medical services at the Curry County Juvenile Detention Center, had requested to see Jouett's medical records. That request was denied. Defense attorney Stephen Taylor told 5th Judicial District Judge James Hudson, who presided by video, that w...
CLOVIS — Messages of peace, love and tranquility filled the entrance to the Clovis-Carver Public Library on Friday as an installation of more than 400 colorful pinwheels greeted patrons entering the building. "(It's) fantastic. You can totally feel the love," said Misty Bertrand, who organized bringing the international Pinwheels for Peace event to Clovis this year. The pinwheels — made of paper, a pencil and a push pin — were designed by community members during sever... Full story
CLOVIS — A Texas man says he shot a would-be mugger who came at him with a knife early Friday morning outside a Clovis motel. Zion Flores, 20, of Mission, Texas, said he was in his car about 8:15 a.m. when two men came toward him, one slashing his tire with a knife. Flores said he responded by pulling a gun and firing in self-defense. “I seen them coming to the window, I just lowered the (car) window, and ‘Pop, pop, pop,’” Flores said. Clovis police said a 40-year-old man was hospitalized with gunshot wounds to his buttocks.... Full story
CLOVIS — A simple design will carry a powerful message during the Pinwheels for Peace event today at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. Co-organizer Misty Bertrand said the international pinwheel project promoting non-violence has been in Clovis previously but wasn't here last year; so the Clovis/Curry County Chamber Ambassadors thought it was important to revive the event "especially with the way the world is today." The pinwheels — about 400 of them — were designed by members... Full story
CLOVIS — A fixture of the Clovis Community College commons area for more than three decades will be coming down this weekend due to safety concerns, according to college officials. A stained glass art piece created by former CCC art teacher Bruce DeFoor, which features New Mexico scenery, has hung in the second floor of the commons area near the bookstore since 1982. But when he inspected the piece over the summer, DeFoor said he recommended it be taken down. "There's n...
New Mexico Secretary of Education Christopher Ruszkowski visited eastern New Mexico on Wednesday to celebrate a pair of first-time achievements at area schools. First Ruszkowski visited Fort Sumner Middle School to celebrate that school’s first A grade before traveling northeast to House Elementary School to recognize its A, the first time a House school has earned the top grade. Ruszkowski was in the region as part of the Straight A Express, a campaign the Public Education D...
CLOVIS — After a lengthy discussion, the Curry County Commission on Tuesday voted 4-1 to allow the city of Clovis to use county funds for a conservation easement pilot project. Commissioner Seth Martin cast the lone vote in opposition. The county previously approved an intergovernmental services agreement with the city at its May 15 meeting, which included a $1 million payment from the county's environmental fund to the city. During Tuesday's meeting, Clovis City Manager J...
CLOVIS — Months after it was narrowly approved by the Curry County Commission, construction is complete on the new county road barn located south of Clovis on Curry Road 6. By a 3-2 vote and then a 4-1 vote respectively, the commission approved a $525,554 water line extension agreement with EPCOR to provide water to the barn and then a $409,642 agreement with Nick Griego & Sons Construction Inc. to build the barn during the commission's Jan. 11 meeting. While the road d...
CLOVIS — Hundreds of people came out to Hillcrest Park on Saturday to shine a light on suicide. Clovis hosted its first Out of the Darkness Walk, part of a nationwide series of community walks put on by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Clovis Chairman Janette Chavarria said Saturday's 5K walk around the park drew 366 people and raised $8,024, with that money going toward suicide prevention and awareness locally. "I'm so excited. It's bigger than what I t... Full story
CLOVIS — Moments after Marc Anthony Baca led a chant of "turtle power" to pump up the crowd, individuals wearing costumes nearly identical to those popularized by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles took the stage at the Clovis Comic Con on Saturday. They were introduced by their character names Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael — though only two characters were actually present. Baca, organizer of the event, has faced legal action from Viacom, which purchased the...
CLOVIS — Curry County Commissioner Chet Spear began Friday’s commission meeting by addressing the two absences on the dais. Ben McDaniel, he said, was out of town on vacation. After a long pause, Spear reported Commissioner Angelina Baca was “... not here.” Spear said later no one on the commission knew where Baca might be. Asked about Baca’s absence after the meeting, County Manager Lance Pyle said he had not heard from her. Reached by phone after the meeting on Friday, Baca told The News that she missed the meeting b... Full story
