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The Roosevelt County Water Co-op has filed a lawsuit in the federal New Mexico district naming 23 manufacturers of products that contain PFAS and PFOS chemicals. The suit alleges the chemicals have contaminated ground water in areas around Cannon Air Force Base, including sources used by the water co-op, seeking damages and corrective action. Singleton Schreiber, a law firm based in Los Lunas, filed a lawsuit that alleges products containing PFAS from several large manufacturers contaminated water and soil in and around...
Zane Brothers has been busy lately. His car repair business is booming with hail damage, and on Thursday, he was still working out details in preparing for Draggin' Main, Clovis' car-centered, eight-day celebration that will beginning this weekend. Cars have dominated Brothers' life for as long as he can remember, he said, but somehow, as the trophies on his office wall attest, he has found time for big game hunting in Africa. Brothers took some time out from a hectic...
The introduction of 75 teen interns to the working world Monday was quite real-world – an hour and a quarter of paperwork. They're all part of Curry County's High School Summer Internship Program. Each earned $15, at a $12-per-hour pay rate, for sitting through a session devoted to filling out forms and a little advice about showing up on time, dressed for the job and ready to devote employer time doing the employer's work. Forms dealt with matters like permission to use i...
The introduction of 75 teen interns to the working world Monday was quite real-world – an hour and a quarter of paperwork. They're all part of Curry County's High School Summer Internship Program. Each earned $15, at a $12-per-hour pay rate, for sitting through a session devoted to filling out forms and a little advice about showing up on time, dressed for the job and ready to devote employer time doing the employer's work. Forms dealt with matters like permission to use i...
Eastern New Mexico University will seek funding totaling $6.4 million in research and public service funds from the New Mexico Higher Education and the New Mexico Legislature for the fiscal year 2025. ENMU regents approved the request at Saturday’s board meeting. The bulk of the proposed request consists of nearly $3.9 million that regents intend to seek to fund student athletics. The board voted to ask for a 15% raise above the $3.4 million funding provided from HED and legislative sources in the current year for student a...
Stephanie Chavez has degrees in public health and wildlife and conservation preservation, but she has made a career out working with animals in zoos. The El Paso native has been curator for the Hillcrest Park Zoo for a month after working with zoos in San Antonio and El Paso, Texas. As curator, she said, she's in charge of caring for the animals, with the help of a crew of seven full-time zookeepers. With family members living in Clovis, however, she did not arrive here...
A Portales man is helping with a statewide petition drive aimed at preventing new laws from taking effect June 18. Logan Brown, a Portales High School science teacher and parent, said the petitions are targeting six different laws. “Four of the laws either directly or indirectly deal with abortion or transgenderism, the other two laws affect our elections, election integrity,” Brown said. “House Bill 7 is telling local governing bodies they cannot restrict access to reproductive health care and gender affirming health care....
Fallen uniformed service members, including a Roosevelt County World War II prisoner of war soon to be buried at home and faithful K-9 service dog, will be honored in cemetery services on Monday, Memorial Day, in Clovis and Portales. In Portales, The News’ columnist Betty Williamson will tell the story of PFC Thomas Vernon Long, who died in 1942 while a prisoner of war in the Phillipines, and the long journey involved to return his body home to Portales for burial. Williamson will be the main speaker at Portales’ gra...
Rey Ortiz is so reliable as a volunteer at the Matt 25 Hope Center, that he is included on the employee in-and-out board at the center’s entrance. The center is an umbrella organization food and clothing distribution, and receiving charity donations, but at its headquarters building, the former Memorial Hospital, it hosts the United Way of Eastern New Mexico, the Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails, and La Casa food service and family health care operations. Ortiz assists them all. “He’s amazing,” Renee Ortiz Rucker, Matt 25...
A preliminary budget that the Roosevelt County Commission approved on Tuesday projects revenues in all accounts of $18.3 million, expenses of $21.4 million, and a balance of $18.1 million at the end of fiscal 2024 on June 30, 2024, county manager Amber Hamilton told the commission. The balance includes the effects of $8.7 million cash on hand to begin the fiscal year on July 1, and $12.4 million in investments to offset the amount of expenses over revenues, according to budget documents. When nearly $3 million is set aside...
Clovis Police Captain Robbie Telles often serves as a spokesperson for the department but his job also, includes intense investigative work, plus administrative duties. He has 30 years with the Clovis Police Department, not counting his time as a university police officer in Vermont. During his career with Clovis PD, he has served on the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, taught firearms classes and served as a certified motorcycle officer. And once while serving as a po...
A capacity crowd of friends, family and supporters cheered from the bleachers Saturday at Greyhound Arena as more than 650 capped and gowned students at Eastern New Mexico University crossed the stage to receive diplomas. Gay Su Pinnell, an ENMU alumna who has received many national awards for her work in literacy education, delivered the commencement address. In addition to her literacy education achievements, Pinnell has funded education grants for ENMU since 2017. She also...
Charles "Bryan" Vannatta knew he wanted to be a law enforcement officer like his father and grandfather since he was a little boy, growing up in Texico. "He would get the keys to his dad's squad car and get on the radio. He knew all the call signals," Curry County Sheriff Mike Reeves said. Vannatta realized his boyhood dream and ultimately served alongside his father as a Curry County sheriff's deputy. But two years ago, he contracted COVID-19. The disease ended his life on...
Maggie Mendoza has been directing the choirs at Portales High School for four years, and this year, the choir took home top honors among the state's 4A schools. Mendoza, however, has known she wanted to direct school choirs since she was in the sixth grade. Since graduating from Eastern New Mexico University in 2017, school choir conducting has been her career. The News spoke with Mendoza on Wednesday in Portales High School's chorus rehearsal room Here are our questions and h...
A five-year capital plan for Eastern New Mexico University received approval from the ENMU Board of Regents Friday in preparation for presentation to the state Higher Education Department to seek funding for projects to be financed this year by general obligation (GO) bonds. The projects for which GO bonds will be requested include a new Agricultural and Art Annex building for $15 milllion and a Health Sciences building for $18 million, Tony Major, ENMU’s chief financial officer said, said. In addition, Major said, ENMU w...
Sometime either late this year or early next year, the 64,000 square foot building that now houses Traci's Greenhouse at 2600 Mabry Drive, Clovis, is expected to become the new home of Zia Powersports, the motor sports business's owner Tanner Gearn said on Thursday. He said the building's area and its surrounding 3.5 acres will allow his business to more readily accommodate customers and his inventory of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and other back-country-recreation...
A 2017 essay about Jason Paulk, the head of Eastern New Mexico University's vocal music programs, on the ENMU website, includes this quote from Paulk: "At the intersection of great passion and focused discipline can be found great art." Paulk is a believer in the value of the work ethic and discipline that music instills in serious students, as much as he is a believer in music itself. Notice he didn't say "talent," but he does not deny the value of talent. More on that...
Eastern New Mexico University rolled out its best academic regalia Friday for the inauguration of James Johnston as Eastern's 12th president and third chancellor. Nearly all of ENMU's faculty and staff attended, wearing sometimes colorful academic caps and gowns of caps and gowns that indicate levels of academic achievement and often the institutions that bestowed them. At least 100 others sat in the bleachers of Greyhound Arena to watch the ceremony. Johnston has been in the...
A total of 394 graduates of Clovis Community College received approval to receive associate degrees, certificates of completion and certificates of achievement on Wednesday from the CCC Board of Trustees. The graduates include 213 associate degrees, 99 certificates of completion and 82 certificates of achievement, Interim President Robin Jones told the board. Jones reported that 7.7% more degrees and certificates were earned in this school year than last year, including 30...
Despite a decreasing student population, Portales schools are expecting a 14% raise in their operating budget for the 2023-2024 school year, Sarah Stubbs, director of finance, told the Portales Municipal School Board on Tuesday. The board unanimously adopted the $35.5 million tentative budget Stubbs presented on Tuesday, which now must receive review and approval from the state Public Education Department. Stubbs said the operating budget is increasing despite an expected dip...
Choral music has always been the main passion for Sean Galloway, the director of choirs at Clovis High School, and this year the payoff has been a state championship for the school's chamber choir, as well as top honors for the Wildcats' Women's Select choir. Galloway came to Clovis 10 years ago with his wife Diana on what they call "our Great Southwest Adventure," an escape for cold, snowy winters in Michigan, where both grew up and attended college. With his choir students...
Cannon Air Force Base has convincing proof the region missed its airshows. Officials said a capacity crowd of 11,500 people were on the grounds by 12:45 p.m. Saturday for "Wings Over Cannon," the base's first airshow in five years. They came despite blustery weather -- and more wanted in. A line of cars stretched more than a mile away from Cannon in the westbound lanes of U.S. Route 60-84 when officials began turning them away. Some vehicles pulled over in a wide spot off the...
Bestella Gardner remembered the PVC-pipe time capsule near the flagpole at Lincoln-Jackson School in Clovis and remembered it was supposed to be exhumed in 2020, 25 years after its burial. It didn't happen then, as a lot of things didn't happen, because of the COVID 19 pandemic. But on Saturday, two days after the 28th anniversary of its burial, the past was revisited. Gardner, who had been a secretary at Lincoln-Jackson for 30 years before she retired in 2010, was among an es...
While she was helping with the Roosevelt County Community Development Corporation's Hiring Event on Thursday, RCCDC Director Jodi Diaz took a little time to talk with the News about her job, which she has held for less than a year, as well as her career and her off-hours pursuits. Diaz is a Portales resident who lived in northern New Mexico during her middle and high school years, then returned to Portales to attend Eastern New Mexico University, where she earned bachelor's...
Eastern New Mexico University’s Portales campus plans to receive $62.8 million in instruction and general revenues and spend a little less than $56 million in instruction and general funds for the 2023-2024 fiscal year in the operating budget approved Friday by the ENMU Board of Regents. Tony Major, ENMU’s chief financial officer told the regents on Friday that revenues are projected to increase by nearly $4 million, or 6.8% from the current year’s $52.9 million in instruction and general funds, due to increased stude...
