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Nathan Hecht spent his law career representing "the little guy." That's how Clovis attorney Mike Garrett always saw him at least. "Nathan cared for the little man. He completely reformed the law in Texas for the people in need," Garrett said last week, remembering the 1967 Clovis High graduate who retired last month after a decade as chief justice of the Texas' Supreme Court. He'd served on the state's Supreme Court since 1988. "He was a most conservative justice," Garrett...
Monday *City of Portales Planning and Zoning Committee – 5:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Tuesday *2025 Legislative Forum Breakfast – 7 a.m., Business Enterprise Center boardroom, Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce, 105 E. Grand Ave., Clovis. RSVP by email to [email protected] *Roosevelt County Commission – 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 *Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., North A...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Reinier Estevez-Mayedo, 39, no drivers license, speeding, conspiracy to commit receiving or transferring stolen motor vehicles • Veronica Bedolla, 29, battery, criminal damage to property • Jessie Fuller, 37, probation violation • Ivan Lopez, 31, battery against a household member • Donna Sena, 58, probation violation • Clifford Franklin, 47, driving while license suspended or revoked, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Fabian Fabela...
Clovis City commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved a restaurant beer and wine license for a downtown Clovis eatery. The La Fiesta Mexican Restaurant on the northeast corner of the intersection of Fifth and Main streets downtown is the licensee. La Fiesta owner Jesus Vallejo Gonzales thanked commissioners for their approval. The unanimous vote was 7-0. Commissioner Juan Garza was not present for the session. In other business, commissioners presented awards to two city...
On this date … 1932: Eastern New Mexico was covered in about 6 inches of snow. “Old timers pronounced this as the heaviest snowfall in years,” the Portales Valley News reported. “The night bus was unable to run, and the bus mail failed to come in.” In other local news: • Mrs. W.M. Drinkard of the East Valley View Club had won a carpet sweeper and undisclosed cash prize in the Ball Jar canning contest. Drinkard won for canning vegetables. • A Portales man had been arrested for stealing five hens from Ed Spears. The suspect was...
Clovis' Ricky Fuentes picked 12 of 20 games correctly in the 12th round of the Pigskin Pick 'Em contest to win the season's title and $500 cash prize. For the year, Fuentes correctly picked 94 of the 130 pro and college football games on the contest game cards. Clovis' Tommy Platt, also 12-8 in the game's final round, finished second for the year with 91 correct picks. Zach Mockchew picked 13 of 20 games correctly in Week 12, earning him a $50 gift card from Juanito's Mexican...
I see there are “Lego Club” meetings at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. What goes on at these meetings? Simply put, Clovis-Carver Public Library Director Margaret Hinchee said those who attend “do Lego activities.” While the event is called “Lego Club” it’s not actually a club, according to Hinchee. “We spread out Legos on tables and they can build whatever they want,” Hinchee. Participants build “cars, robots, all kinds of things.” “We have the big Legos that they call Duplos and people can come in and be creative,” Hinch...
Elida Breakfast includes juice, milk and fruit. Lunch includes fruit and milk. Monday: No school. Tuesday: Breakfast: Banana bread, yogurt. Lunch: Hamburgers/cheeseburgers, fries. Wednesday: Breakfast: Biscuits, egg & ham. Lunch: Chicken enchiladas, beans, rice. Thursday: Breakfast: Breakfast burritos. Lunch: Cheese & broccoli soup & sandwiches: Ham, turkey or tuna. Texico Breakfast choices also include cold cereal, juice and milk. Monday: Breakfast: Donuts. Lunch: Cheeseburger, French fries, lettuce, tomato, pickle, fruit,...
Hillcrest Senior Life Center 1704 E 7th St. Clovis Monday: Chicken chow mein, stir fry egetables, pineapple and Mandarin oranges, Fortune cookie. Tuesday: Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes w/country gravy, roasted Brussel sprouts, wheat roll, fruit cocktail . Wednesday: Chicken bake w/mozzarella & parmesan cheese, penne pasta, marinara sauce, tomato and red onion salad, asparagus, whole wheat crackers, peaches. Thursday: Chili & beans w/cheese, Capri vegetables, cornbread, orange. Friday: Beef macaroni, garden salad...
Raise your hand if you thought the bald eagle was our national bird all your life. We found out in the last few weeks we were all wrong about that. Somehow we put the bald eagle all over our currency, our military uniforms, our architecture and in a good portion of our patriotic merchandise without ever officially passing a bill through Congress adopting the symbol. President Joe Biden signed the bill changing all that on Christmas eve 2024. Evidently a drawing of the bald...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “The Burning of Rosemont Abbey” by Naomi Stephens. In a quiet English village, the smoldering ruins of Rosemont Abbey have set the residents’ tongues wagging, and everyone is quick to accuse troublemaker Paul Everly of the crime of arson. Paul...
If it has an internal combustion engine, Hayden Williams has probably been a parts man or salesman for it: Tractors, other farm equipment, cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATVs, side-by-sides. His work is what brought him from Plainview, Texas, to eastern New Mexico a few years ago. The News sat down with Williams on New Year’s eve in his office on East First St. Q: Tell us about where you were born, where’ve you been? A: I was born in Plainview, Texas. I moved to Woodward, Okla., then back to Plainview. I ended up living in Por...
FLOYD – No one came close to getting into double figures, but 13 players scored for Floyd as the Broncos cruised to a 52-10 victory over San Jon on Thursday night. Five players posted six points each to lead Floyd (2-6), including junior Edwin Gallegos, sophomores, Adan Nieto and Reiley Melton and freshmen Rey Duarte and Brayden Parks. Floyd led 7-2 at the quarter, then went on a 35-0 run which carried late into the third stanza. Freshman Adam Jimenez accounted for six p...
Perhaps the worst thing that happened for Portales High’s boys in Thursday’s game against Carlsbad was halftime. PHS spent the final five minutes of the first half erasing a 10-point deficit, then tied the game on two free throws by senior guard Jase Hightower 16 seconds into the third quarter. Suffice it to say, not much went right for the Rams after that. They were outscored 19-2 by the Cavemen the rest of the period, and eventually were dealt a 68-39 setback on the opening night of the Portales Shootout at the Ram Ath...
After opening the campaign with 11 games against Texas competition, Portales High’s girls came back to the New Mexico side for the first time this season on Thursday night. Suffice it to say, the Lady Rams will be challenged the rest of the way more than they were by Miyamura. The Lady Patriots managed only two field goals and didn’t score over the final 20 minutes – much of it with a running clock – at PHS cruised 67-6 on the opening night of the Portales Shootout at the Ram Athletic Center. All Miyamura managed was a 3-poi...
The first great coverup involving presidential succession occurred in 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke that left him severely incapacitated. Medical records indicate that Wilson was incapacitated and paralyzed on one side of his body for the remaining 18 months of his presidential term. Whitehouse physician, Adm. Cary Grayson, who had tremendous personal and professional loyalty to Wilson, kept the severity of the stroke hidden from Congress and the...
If you’re concerned about America’s direction, there’s a way to think about it that helps. It’s also true. America is the people, the natural wonders and resources, and the spirit of innovation. America is liberty. The U.S. federal government is the enemy of all those things and not something you should look to for guidance, protection, or answers. The regional and local governments are not on America’s side, either. Being loyal to government is misguided. Or worse. When the...
Perhaps nothing encapsulates the perils of crypto better than Tether Holdings Ltd. Tether is a so-called stablecoin. It addresses one of cryptocurrencies’ greatest drawbacks — extreme volatility — by mimicking the government-issued currencies crypto was supposed to replace. In return for actual dollars, it provides dollar-denominated digital tokens that can be sent across various platforms to anyone, anywhere without touching the regulated financial system. Miraculously, Tether has survived various cataclysms to become the cr...
AUSTIN — Nathan Hecht — who grew up on his family’s grain farm in Clovis — has formally retired as the Texas Supreme Court’s chief justice and longest-serving member. “We never had any lawyers in the family. Certainly no judges,” Hecht said. “I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would even practice law — let alone be on the court, let alone be on here as long as I have.” Though he won reelection in November 2020 to a six-year term, state constitutional limits will prevent Hecht, 75, from serving beyond December. Te...
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday announced she’s appointed former state Sen. Greg Nibert to the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. Nibert, R-Roswell, will be asked to serve a six-year term. Nibert succeeds Commissioner James Ellison whose term concluded Dec. 31. “I am honored to be nominated to the Public Regulation Commission,” Nibert said in a news release issued by the governor’s office. “My duty as a commissioner will be to regulate our utilities according to the laws of the land, which inclu...
Editor’s note: Martha Kavanagh is head of corporate communications for Glanbia, the company that owns Southwest Cheese. She responded last week via email to questions from The News regarding Monday’s chemical spill that left 15 SW Cheese employees hospitalized. All 15 employees injured had been released from area hospitals by Thursday, hospital officials said. Q: What kind of process was being performed when the incident took place? Was it part of the cheese-making process? A sterilization procedure? What happens in the CIP...
The Clovis hospital’s first baby of 2025 is a boy, born at 8:53 a.m. Thursday. Brandon Rashard Holmes Jr. was born to Marla Arrington and Brandon Rashard Holmes Sr. of Clovis. He was 20.5 inches long and weighed 7 pounds, 9.5 ounces. “He’s the smallest baby I’ve had. We were expecting him Dec. 24 and when he didn’t arrive we thought he’d be at least 9 pounds,” Arrington said. Arrington, from Columbus, Ga., is an E4 with the U. S. Air Force, stationed at Cannon Air Force Bas...
State police are investigating a shooting that took place about 5 a.m. Wednesday at a residence on Buffalo Road outside Clovis. “A 51-year-old male did sustain gunshot wounds while inside his residence,” a New Mexico State Police spokesperson told The News. “He was transported to a hospital in Texas with what appear to be non-life-threatening injuries. No arrests have been made and this incident is still being investigated....
Last week I was browsing through the New Year’s Day edition of the Portales Valley News from 1925. The front page featured a recap of accomplishments made by Portales during 1924, including paving 12 blocks in the business section of town, completing a new Baptist orphanage, building more than 50 new homes, paving “one mile of concrete connecting the Clovis and Elida highways,” and becoming “a recognized cotton and broom corn center.” Below that was a shorter section t...
Some area residents will remember 2024 as the year a Clovis native won the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association's All-Around World Championship. Others may note it was the year Clovis city officials attempted to address issues with panhandling and homelessness. Or the year fire destroyed the Portales Hampton Farms peanut processing plant. The year, like all years, was marked with triumph and transitions. But many will remember 2024 for violence more senseless than most: the afternoon...
