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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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ROSWELL — A Portales resident was killed in a vehicle accident Christmas Eve in Roswell, and a man was arrested in connection to the crash. Devany Brunk, 31, died at the scene of the two-car accident, which also saw her mother Cindy Stone airlifted to Lubbock for treatment. Born in Virginia, Brunk's obituary stated that she had lived and worked in Portales for most of her life. She was a 2007 Portales High graduate. "If you have ever seen a sunbeam poking out from a dark cloud, that was Devany," said longtime family friend Gr...
CLOVIS — The Clovis City Commission will be down a member in less than two weeks, as District 4’s R.L. “Rube” Render tendered his resignation, effective Jan. 20. In his resignation letter presented at Thursday’s commission meeting, Render referred to recent events in his personal life that led to “some difficult decisions.” He referred to his time on the commission as a good fortune and a high honor, and thanked the mayor, commissioners and the city administration and employees for all they have done. The move was not a sur...
CLOVIS - The Clovis Fire Department needed about an hour to knock out a house fire Saturday morning on the 1900 block of Howard Drive. The home was a total loss, along with some vehicles on the property. However, Lt. John Bradley of the CFD said, there were no injuries or deaths reported. Residents on the scene told The News the occupants of the house came over to a neighbor's to call the fire department, and it was their understanding the fire was accidental. However,...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library has reopened to the public, but patrons can continue to visit the online catalog at clovis.polarislibrary.com or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “The Teachings of Bruce Lee” by his daughter, Shannon Lee, illuminates Bruce's most powerful life philosophies, demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice these teachings every day. Best of...
Information on nutrition recession, food and wine pairing and learning to do smocking will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain). Mary Lee Chin is a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the California Raisin Marketing Board, and she will talk about nutrition recession: or what to do with the food budget as the economy flags, sags and drags. Chin lives in Austin, Texas. David Mirassou is a wine expert and a sixth-generation winemaker. He believes that foo...
My son Gideon certainly had a high-octane understanding of the theory of driving last winter. As far as the rubber meeting the road, not so much. My wife and I were relieved that he was enrolled in drivers education in high school, under the supervision of the football coach; but right before it was Gideon’s turn to get behind the steering wheel, COVID-19 shut everything down for the rest of the school year. Gideon received a grade for the abbreviated course, but now it’s back in the hands of his parents to get him ready for...
The past year has been a strain for local musicians, both financially and emotionally. In March, they went from performing on a weekly basis to not performing at all or seldom. "We were going crazy missing the music," said Bobby Roybal, former Blackwater Band member. "I was ready to hang it up, because I figured we probably weren't going to get to play for a couple of years. I was tellin' the guys I'm out of it. The guys didn't want me to, but I thought, we can't play...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico added a pair of prospects for the 2022 season, according to a pair of releases from the university. Signings announced were high school pitcher Juan Milera and junior college infielder Juan Chaparro. Milera, a 5-foot-10, 175-pound lefthanded pitcher, went 5-1 with a 2.21 ERA for United South High School in Laredo, Texas. Chaparro, a 5-foot-10, 200-pound first and third baseman, has one shortened season in the books for Otero Junior College, where he hit .356 in 22 games. College partners with T...
FARWELL - Vega's girls may not have quite closed out Friday's District 3-2A matchup in style. Nonetheless, Lady Longhorns coach Randy Henderson was glad to take the win. Vega scored the game's first four points, led 15-4 with two minutes left in the first quarter and held off Farwell down the stretch for a district-opening 58-53 victory. Senior guard Madalyn Richards scored 22 points for the Lady Longhorns (10-7) against perhaps their prime challenger in the district....
PORTALES — The Portales City Council met in a matter of minutes Tuesday night to approve two items on their consent agenda. The first item was to declare Jan. 18 as Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the township. On the agenda was included a description of the proclamation which said the council urges “all citizens to join in the continued effort to follow Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of equality for all.” A virtual celebration is scheduled to air 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Jan. 18 on KENW 3-1 and 3-2. Next came new appointments and r...
My father had terminal lung cancer. He fought like a Spartan at Thermopylae, his body riddled with chemo and radiation, his stomach filled with macrobiotic foods lovingly prepared by my mother, his mind steeped in the defiance of death as exhibited by Dylan Thomas who wrote the words that were buried with him, in his coffin: “And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage a...
This is the time of year when people all over the world join in a collective wish that next year will be better than the last one. Never in my lifetime has that bar been set so low. Former children’s TV host Fred Rogers famously passed along the advice his mother gave him when he was a child and images on the TV news were frightening and confusing. Always look for the helpers, she said. In any disaster, there will always be people helping others get through it. And so, with respect and sympathies for the 1.8 million souls wor...
Climate change means more in drought I wonder what ranchers in De Baca and Chaves counties think of Rich Lowry’s advice to husband their water sources better or just move away from their family’s parched land because it can’t sustain their herds anymore. From Lowry’s view on the East Coast, concerns about the effects of climate change must not seem very urgent, personal or expensive. But here in the Southwest, climate change has pushed us into the second worst drought in 1,200 years. Sure, we can use our ingenuity to make ou...
Wednesday was a sad day for America. We watched the mob violence and lawlessness in Washington with a tear in our eye. We saw images of the Capitol stormed by hundreds of yahoos who fought with police, broke windows and forced the evacuation of a session of the U.S. Congress. At least five died in the chaos. Wednesday was also a very sad day for conservatives, the Republican Party and tens of millions of American citizens who voted to re-elect President Trump for all the...
There’s a reason we expect presidents of the United States to say that they support the peaceful transfer of power. Donald Trump has never committed to it, and we saw the bitter fruit on Wednesday afternoon when, shockingly, pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol and disrupted the counting of Electoral College votes. The breaching of the building during one of the longest-running ceremonies under our system of government is the starkest domestic assault on our democracy i...
There is a bright side for Republicans who still believe in smaller, more conservative government. Wednesday's events at our nation's Capitol cannot be justified or defended, but maybe they offer a chance to begin again with a stronger foundation: Violence will not be tolerated. Responsible Republicans and conservatives from Washington, D.C., to New Mexico have made that point repeatedly these past few days, even as a small number of their misguided leaders lost control of their common sense. Lasting change can only happen...
The following marriage licenses were recently issued at the Curry County Clerk’s office: • Robert Joe Ellis, 50, and Noelia Lira Morales, 31, both of Clovis • Sisco Julian Trevino, 19, and Tashawnda Josephine Rose Salazar, 29, both of Clovis • Tyler Wayne Tate, 20, and Ashley Morgan Turner, 19, both of Clovis • Nicolas Alton Guebara, 22, and Gabriela Gallegos, 24, both of Clovis • Eric N Saenz, 29, and Destini Nicole Arguijo, 26, both of Clovis • Matthew Scott Sadler, 22, and Shyan Allison Leeth, 20, both of Clovis • Faus...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday-Friday): Clovis • Shawn Hubbard, 40, probation violation, parole violation • Tiffany Martinez, 25, failure to appear on a felony charge • Christina Lopez, 25, larceny • Victor Loya, 34, assault against a household member • Juwan Gallo, 26, criminal damage to property, arson, bribe of a witness • Terrill Smolar, 28, parole violation • Robert Russell, 36, bringing contraband into jail, distribution of a controlled substance • Jahmal Glover, 25, assault, shoplifting, ag...
CLOVIS — Clovis and Melrose school officials announced that they would resume hybrid education the week of Jan. 18, assuming they are still cleared to do so by existing health orders. Melrose Schools will return to hybrid mode for prekindergarten through sixth grade on Jan. 18, while Clovis Municipal Schools will resume hybrid mode Jan. 19 for preschool through fifth grade. The Clovis district is off for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Both districts shifted to remote mode following the Thanksgiving holiday, and in D...
The state Law Offices of the Public Defender will pay $750,000 to a former employee who said her supervisor — then second in command of the agency — sexually assaulted her and, when she reported it, the agency chose to protect him instead of her. The state Risk Management Division spent $152,000 in legal fees fighting the case before agreeing to settle it last month. In exchange for the settlement, Jocelyn Garrison, who worked as a managing attorney in the Public Defender’s Office in Clovis before resigning in 2018, agreed to...
CLOVIS — Durwood Billington, coworkers surmised, knows more about wastewater and takes more pride in it than most people do about anything. The longtime superintendent of the city’s wastewater treatment plant was congratulated on his retirement after 20 years with the city during Thursday’s Clovis City Commission meeting. “I don't think I know anybody else around,” Public Works Director Clint Bunch said, “that knows more about their field than Durwood does. It's not all math, it's not all science. There's a touch needed, and...
CLOVIS — Plains Regional Medical Center was in no way out of the storm that is the COVID-19 pandemic. But Interim Administrator Jorge Cruz said the waters were a little calmer last week. Cruz told the Clovis City Commission during its Thursday virtual meeting the hospital started the day with 15 COVID-19 patients after having 25 to 30 daily over recent months. More relieving, Cruz said, the hospital had no patients, COVID-19 or not, in its intensive care unit for the first time in months. “We did things we never imagined we...
Twenty years ago, when protests erupted over the contested election between George Bush and Al Gore, Pat Davis was a rookie officer with the United States Capitol Police Department. He remembers freezing on the cold streets as disgruntled voters from both sides poured into Washington, D.C., for rallies and marches. Needless to say, the scene on Wednesday as mobs stormed the Capitol was very different. “(Back then) we didn’t have the president of the United States encouraging people to fight, and take over and move for...
Wednesday was “an unbelievable day” and “one of the most historic and amazing things I have ever seen,” Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin said on a video after he attended the rally in support of the president in Washington, D.C. He also said the American people have been awakened and are going to clean the country up. He said they were going to do so even if Trump himself backs down. “We could have a 2nd Amendment rally on those same steps that we had that rally on yesterday and if we do then it’s going to be a sad da...
PORTALES — A tort claim has been filed on behalf of the family of a man who reportedly committed suicide Nov. 11 at the Roosevelt County Detention Center. The claim from the law office of Eric Dixon names the Roosevelt County Commission, its detention center and its employees as potential defendants following the death of Eric Padilla, 37. A tort claim is a notice sent to government entities within 90 days of an alleged date of injury or property damage, and gives the filing party a two-year window to file a lawsuit. P...
