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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — The city’s senior services division is hoping to hear from the people it serves. The Clovis Senior Citizens Service Committee gave approval during its Thursday meeting for Senior Services Director Barbara Riggan to release a survey that she said will help the department create its four-year plan. It will also prioritize requests on its infrastructure capital improvement plan for future state legislative sessions. Riggan hopes to have all surveys in by Aug. 23 so results can be compiled in time for creation of the...
PORTALES — In a discussion about as lengthy as the rest of the meeting combined, Portales city councilors expressed frustration about alleyways overloaded with trash. Portales City Manager Sammy Standefer conceded issues with large items left next to trash bins, but that a solution can’t be 100 percent city staff and 0 percent citizen pride and responsibility. No action was taken, as the conversation happened during an open comment section at the end of the Tuesday council meeting. Members, however, hinted at a possible wor...
CLOVIS — When one private entity gets three times as much taxpayer disbursement as another private entity, supporters of the latter are sometimes inclined to disagree. That took place during the Thursday Clovis City Commission meeting, with a back-and-forth over lodgers tax disbursements taking up much of the conversation for the hour-long meeting. Before the meeting began at the Clovis-Carver Public Library, the agenda included one new business item — a scope and fee request for the effluent water pipeline — and a handful of...
A little more than a year ago, I decided to look up the streaming package for the Women’s National Basketball Association. I had already planned to purchase NBA League Pass later in the year, and thought there might be a group discount. I knew NBA League Pass was $200, and expected the WNBA package to be significantly less based on a shorter season and fewer teams. I at first laughed when I saw the package was just $17, because I probably had more than $17 in cereal in my kitchen at the time. Then I did the math. Since W...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University regents on Thursday took one more step toward a new president’s residence at the college. Now the challenge is taking long enough to do the project right and getting the project started before the year closes out. Regents agreed on the Albuquerque-based architecture firm of Dekker Perich Sabatini to draw up plans for the new residence, commonly referred to within ENMU administrative and regents circles as the University House. During its June meeting, regents decided the new residence...
CLOVIS - Chet Chenault thought it was nice to hear somebody nominated him to be the Veterans of Foreign Wars firefighter of the year. But after months of radio silence, he figured somebody else had won the state award. "I'd been told a while back I had been nominated for it," Chenault said, "but that was January and I hadn't heard anything else about it." He heard about it again Friday, and the surprise was much bigger. The lieutenant took not only the New Mexico award, but...
A former coworker of mine moved to the east coast, and found a great life for herself. That included a boyfriend, who later became a fiancee, who later became a husband. It was more difficult than it should have been, because she’s white and he’s black. Her favorite question from a friend had to be, “Aren’t you concerned your babies are going to have a different skin color?” I wasn’t there to witness, so I don’t know for sure if it contained the not-good qualifier, “I’m not a racist, but ...” I’m sure that friend of hers m...
CLOVIS — Sharing a stage is not for every musician. Sharing a piano is for even fewer. An exception to the rule is set for First United Methodist Church, as visiting musicians Denise Parr-Scanlin and Maria Garzon will perform a piano duet recital 7 p.m. Friday. There is no charge for the recital. Ferrell Roberts, a longtime friend of Parr-Scanlin, said the event isn’t a church event, but more a musical event that happens to be taking place at a church. Parr-Scanlin, a member of the music faculty at West Texas A&M, said she ha...
CLOVIS — There was discussion aplenty Tuesday night regarding Clovis’ parks, particularly the future shooting range at Ned Houk Park. But no actions were taken, partially by circumstance and partially by design. The city’s parks, recreation and beautification committee met Tuesday evening at the Clovis-Carver Public Library, and an hour after its meeting representatives from the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish had a public listening session on a proposed shooting range at Ned Houk Park. The committee did not take...
